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trust that with your dispositions , even the acquisition of science is ft pleasing employment . I eatr assure you that the possession of it is what ( next to an honest heart ) will above all things render
yo « dear to yotir friends , atid give yoti fame and promotion in your own coutitry . When your mind shall be well improved with science , nothing will be necessary to place yon in the highest points of view , but to pursue the interests of your < x > tmtry , the interests of your friends , and your own interests also , with the purest integri ty ^ the most chaste honour . The defect of these virtues can ue ^ er be
niade up by all € he other acquirements of body and mind . Make these * then your first object . Give up money , give up fame , give up science , give the earth itself and all it contains , lather than do an immoral act . And never suppose , that in any possible situation , or under atfy circumstances , it is best for you to
do a dishonourable thing , however slightly so it may appear to you . Whenever you are to do a thing , though it can t » € r € r be known but to yourself , ask yourself how yon wouM act were all the world looking at you , and act accordingly . EacOdrage all your virtuous dispositions , and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises ; being assured that thfey will gain strength by exercise , as a limb of the body does , and that exercise will make them habitual . From
the practice of the ptirest vifttte you may be assured you will derive trie most sublime comforts in every moment of life , and in the moment of death . If ever you find ^ ourself environed with diffi culties and perplexing circumstanced out of which you are at a loss hot * to extricate yourself , do what is fight , and be assured that that will extricate you the best out of the Worst situations . Though you cannot see when you take one step what will be the next , yet follow truth , justice , and plain dealing , arid nefer fear their leadittg you out of the labyrinth in
the easiest maner possible . The knot Which you thought a Gordiata one , will untie itself before you . Northing is so mistaken as the supposition that a person w to extricate himself froni a difficulty by intrigue , by chioa « ery , toy dissimulatroB , by trimming , b * y an tin truth , by an injustice . This increases the ^ ifficfllties ten fdld ; and those who pursue these
methods get chemftelves so involved at length , that they can turn no way but their in finny becomes more exposed , it Is of great Importance to set a resolution , not to be shaken , never to tell tin untruth . There is no vice so mean , so pi-
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tiful , so contemptible ; and he who permits himself to tell a lie ortce , finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time , till at length it becomes ha * bitual ; he tells lies without attending to it , and truths without the world's believing him . This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart , and in time depraves all its gbod dispositions . " —I . 285 , 286 .
We come now to much lighter reading in the form of Travels in the Interior # /* MeancOy by Lieutenant Hardy , ts WHo is there , " says the Lieutenant In his de ' bnt , ** that has not found fault with a prosy book ot travels ? " To avoid being prosy the gallant sailor has crowded sail On the opposite tack , and run the risk of being more vivacious than useful . Information
there is , no doubt , in his book , but the principle of selection is wanting , and It is one continued rattle of jokes and a'dventares , descriptions of people , and whimsical stories . Every thing is t 6 \ & as it might be at a fire-side after supper , with the accompauiment Of a fanliry punch-bowl , half in joke , half in earnest , half true , and half for effect . Being
" engaged iu the capacity of commissioner by the general Pearl and Cdr&l Fishery Association , " lAentendbt Hardy spent four months in 'diplomatic disbu'Ssion at Mexico ; during which time he seems to have been ( as well he might ) ill at his ease . Having at last obtained tlie desired license , he proceeded northward to Loreto , and from thence to the gulf of
Molexe , where he became ( in the service of the said Association ) a diver . This undertaking , and the dangers attendant upon it , he describes with great spirit . " If It be difficult to learn to swim , *' says lie , " it is infinitely more so to dive . Iu my first attempts I could only descend about six feet , and was immediately obliged to rise again to the
surface j but by degrees I got down to three or four fathoms ; at which depth the pressure of the water upon the ears is tfa great , that I can only compare It to a sharp-pointed iron instrument being violently forced Into that organ . My stay under water , therefore , art this depth wHs extrenfelv shfcrt : but as 1 hud been
assured , that fco soon # s the ears sbotrjd burst , as it is techrildalty called by the divers , there would be : hto difficulty 3 u cfescebdirig to any depth 5 and wishing to become * ait aCcom pished diver , 1 determined to brave the excessive paitf , till the bursting Should , as it were , liberate me frdm a kind of cord which limited my range downwards in the same way
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 867, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/51/
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