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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Young Man's Guide, by William A. Alcott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Young Man's Guide Author: William A. Alcott Release Date: December 14, 2007 [eBook #23860] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE*** E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) THE YOUNG MAN'S GUIDE. by WM. A. ALCOTT. Twelfth Edition. Boston: Perkins and Marvin. 1838. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, By Perkins & Marvin, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. TO THE READER. When I commenced this work, my object was a mere compilation. There were many excellent books for young men, already in circulation, but none which I thought unexceptionable; and some of them contained sentiments which I could not approve. I sat down, therefore, intending to make selections from the choicest parts of them all, and prepare an unexceptionable and practical manual; such an one as I should be willing to see in the hands of any youth in the community. In the progress of my task, however, I found much less that was wholly in accordance with my own sentiments, than I had expected. The result was that the project of _compiling_, was given up; and a work prepared, which is chiefly _original_. There are, it is true, some quotations from 'Burgh's Dignity of Human Nature,' 'Cobbett's Advice to Young Men,' 'Chesterfield's Advice,' and Hawes' Lectures; but in general what I have derived from other works is re-written, and much modified. On this account it was thought unnecessary to refer to authorities in the body of the work. The object of this book is to _elevate_ and _reform_. That it may prove useful and acceptable, as a means to these ends, is the hearty wish of THE AUTHOR Boston, Dec. 9, 1833. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. The great purpose of the Young Man's Guide, is the formation of such character in our young men as shall render them the worthy and useful and hap
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