ge and work, he thus
concludes:--

"If you would further desire to know to what besides I am
chiefly indebted for so enviable a lot, I would say:--1st,
Because I had the good fortune to come into the world with a
healthful frame, and with a sanguine temperament. 2d, Because I
had no patrimony, and was therefore obliged to trust to my own
exertions for a livelihood. 3d, Because I was born in a land
where instruction is greatly prized and readily accessible. 4th,
Because I was brought up to a profession which not only
compelled mental exercise, but supplied for its use materials of
the most delightful and varied kind. _And lastly and
principally, because the good man to whom I owe my existence,
had the foresight to know what would be best for his children.
He had the wisdom, and the courage, and the exceeding love, to
bestow all that could be spared of his worldly means, to
purchase for his sons, that which is beyond price_, EDUCATION;
well judging that the means so expended, if hoarded for future
use, would be, if not valueless, certainly evanescent, while the
precious treasure for which they were exchanged, a cultivated
and instructed mind, would not only last through life, but might
be the fruitful source of treasures far more precious than
itself. So equipped he sent them forth into the world to fight
Life's battle, leaving the issue in the hand of God; confident,
however, that though they might fail to achieve renown or to
conquer Fortune, they possessed _that_ which, if rightly used,
could win for them the yet higher prize of HAPPINESS."

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Since this was written, many good books have appeared, but we would
select three, which all young men should read and get--Hartley
Coleridge's _Lives of Northern Worthies_, Thackeray's _Letters of Brown
the Elder_, and _Tom Brown's School-days_--in spirit and in expression,
we don't know any better models for manly courage, good sense, and
feeling, and they are as well written as they are thought.

There are the works of another man, one of the greatest, not only of
our, but of any time, to which we cannot too earnestly draw our young
readers. We mean the philosophical writings of Sir William Hamilton. We
know no more invigorating, quickening, rectifying kind of exercise, than
reading with a will, anything he has written upon permanently