AND THE

EMPLOYMENT OF TIME.

ADDRESSED TO

YOUNG PERSONS SETTING OUT IN LIFE.

WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY VIEW

OF THE SEVERAL PROFESSIONS AND COMMERCE

AND REMARKS FOR ASSISTING THE SELECTION.

BY A LATE MEMBER OF THE

HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE.

"Choose the best life, and custom will render it agreeable."

PLUTARCH.

LONDON:

TAYLOR AND WALTON, UPPER GOWER STREET.

1838.

282.

LONDON

PRINTED BY J. GREEN AND CO., BARTLETT'S BUILDINGS

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION

The Importance of forming the Habits early in

Life, and especially those enumerated

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EDUCATION...

Its ordinary and higher Objects......

Common Results of Education...

Importance of building through life on the

foundation laid.

Scale of proper objects of Pursuit through life.

The Talents intrusted to us..

Scale of desirable objects too commonly set up

in the Mind