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.

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. 9

The Talents intrusted to us..

Scale of desirable objects too commonly set up

in the Mind

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