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application of the knowledge which they have here acquired to their own credit and to the advantage of society . I only venture to express , as an individual , my regret , that several of our young lay-friendsshould not have found it convenient to extend their stay with
us through the third year of the course ; as it certainly appears to me , that a more enlarged acquaintance with the classic writers of antiquity , and the principles of polite literature , would prove a highly ornamental accomplishment , and a source of refined and
elegant pleasure m future years ; that the study of ethics , and more especially of jurisprudence and political economy , is at least as requisite for those who are to be encaged in the
affairs , of civil and active life , as for the Christian Divine ; that the sublime views of the Newtonian Philosophy are eminently calculated to enlarge the mind ; and that the foundations and evidences of natural and revealed
religion , without regard to the peculiarities of sect or party , can hardly fail to prove a most interesting subject to persons of ^ every profession , and to supply the best principles for the direction of the conduct . In thus
expressing , however , my own private opinion , I do not presume to interfere with the decision of your friends , whose views for you , in future life , must necessarily regulate their disposal of your time for the present .
*• To some of those of you who are to return I have a piece of advice to offer , which may be thought at variance with some observations contained in my last address , and which it might seem needless to address to a youthful audieoce at all ; but which some
occurrences during the last session appear to have rendered necessary : it is , that you would guard against intemperate study ; which is often as perniciou « , in its immediate consequeqees , though differing in point of moral delinquency , as intemperance of
another kind . What is the object of our studies at all , but their useful application to self-improvement and the good of mankind , in the course of the future life ? But these objects , it is plain , must be quite defeated , if , by the very mode of prosecuting our studies , we ruin our health or disturb our
H > ental faculties . I mean not to dissuade from moderate study j perhaps
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I would * not have any of you study less than you have done : but I would have your studies regulated by a due attention to time , to exercise , and to diet . There is commonly time enough for all this between the usual hours of
rising and retiring to rest : if it is thought desirable to add still more , J would rather take it from tbje season of rest in the morning than in the evening . Aurora Musis arnica , is ' the observation of a Latin poet : and though I own I am not very fond of
complying with the advice of our favourite Horace , Posces ante diem librum cum lumine t yet an hour or two raay be added to the day at this end of it , during the greatest part of the
year without any such necessity ; but in the full enjoyment of what Dr . Franklin calls " the cheap light of the sun . " The last age afforded a miser * - able example of the effects of late study in the case of the eminent Dr .
Furneaux , who brought on , by its intemperate indulgence , the total overthrow of the powers of a noble mind . And the subject has very lately been forcibly presented to my mind by a recent visit to Nottingham , and to the romantic scenery in its neighbourhood , which was the favourite resort of the
interesting but unfortunate Henry Kirke White , * where , ' says his biographer , * he would read till two or three in the morning , then throw himself into bed for an hour or two , and rise at five to pursue his baneful studies . '—The consequence of this we know in his premature death .
" I do not , however , encourage you to expect , that if you avoid the error of this excellent and extraordinary young man , you will therefore secure to yourselves a healthy and along life . A very different , but obvious
reflection , I doubt not , has for some weeks past , presented itself to ' your minds with some peculiar force . Within the mansions of death are now deposited the remains of a youth , * who , when we were last assembled on this
* John Stratton , Esq . of Lower Berkhamstead , Herts , ^ vho died May 24 last , at his Uncle ' s house at Low Layton , Essex , in the 21 st year of his ag-e . He had passed through his three years , course as a laystudent \ and his name is mentioned with distinction in the Reports of Examination * , 1815 and 1816 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1817, page 497, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2467/page/49/
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