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Reading.

ſo ſacred a book; leſt they might conſider that as a taſk, which ought to be a ſource of the moſt exalted ſatisfaction.

It may be obſerved, that I recommend the mind's being put into a proper train, and then left to itſelf. Fixed rules cannot be given, it muſt depend on the nature and ſtrength of the underſtanding; and thoſe who obſerve it can beſt tell what kind of cultivation will improve it. The mind is not, cannot be created by the teacher, though it may be cultivated, and its real powers found out.

The active ſpirits of youth may make time glide away without intel-lectual