Observations on the awfulness of it The affections especially should be excited The propriety of early attendance.............. The profit and delight to be attained in it by TO THE READER. Ir is recommended to the young student carefully to peruse the Book first, without referring to the Notes at the end, with the view of reading it connectively. And afterwards, to study it diligently in connexion with the Notes as referred to, which comprise authorities of great weight, and convey important instruction in a small compass. HINTS ON STUDY. INTRODUCTION. By way of Introduction, let us reflect a little upon the extract from PLUTARCH in the titlepage. It is a very encouraging circumstance to young persons, prone as they in general are to indolence as respects the severer exercises of the mind, a distracted attention, and unsteadiness in pursuing what is good and useful, that we are subject to this law of habit, and may derive inestimable advantage from it. "Man," Archdeacon PALEY observes, " is a bundle of habits;" and as this little book is designed to be of great practical service to youth, and the due constitution of the habits being a matter of the first consequence to them, it must be particularly noticed that there are personal habits and mental habits:-such as |