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mestic life. The habits of the ma- 
gistrate will infect the conduct of 
the husband, the father, the friend, 
the country gentleman; they will 
render him arrogant and over-bear- 
ing, sour and morose, impatient of 
contradiction, obstinate in his de- 
signs and undertakings, gloomy, sus- 
picious, and unfeeling ; uncomfort- 
able to all around him, and more 
uncomfortable to himself.” 
The next chapter treats of the 
clerical profession, for the principal 
materials of which our author ac- 
knowledges his obligations to bishop 
Burnet aud archbishop Secker. We 
shall make no quotations from this 
part of the subject; for, with what- 
ever faults the clergy may be 
charged, it will hardly be said, gene- 
rally, that they have no knowledge 
of their duty; nor can those to 
whom the censure may be justly ap- 
plied, attribute their ignorance to 
the want of instruction. 
On the chapter concerning the 
duties of physicians we shall make 
but one remark. Mr. Gisborne is 
of opinion that avarice is a vice im- 
puted, justly or unjustly, to that 
profession. We have always under- 
stood the exact c-ntrary to be the 
case ; and that no class of men what- 
ever in the exercise of their art shew 
greater liberality. Dr. Samuel Jobn- 
son was of this opinion, and we be- 
lieve it to be true (in cities and great 
towns) of persons of that faculty, 
with very few exceptions. In less 
populous situations the physician is 
very rarely applied to but by the 
wealthy ; and towards them genero- 
sity is out of the question. 
The following quotation from the 
thirteenth chapter recommends equis 
ty and steadiness of conduct to per- 
sons engaged in trade and business, 
** It frequently happens that men 
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over-rate the good which they have 
done, and perhaps it is equally com. 
mon for them to have considered 
too little the good which they might 
have done. The services which a 
person engaged in a liberal line of 
trade or business may render to the 
public, by an upright discharge of 
the duties of his occupation, and a 
diligent attention tothe opportuni- 
ties of usefulness which it affords, 
are not sufficiently regarded. He 
who pursues his employment for its 
proper ends, and conducts himself 
on principles of equity and benevo- 
lence ; who scrupulously obeys the 
precepts of religion and the laws of 
his country ; who seeks nounfair or ' 
unreasonable advantages, nor takes 
them even when they obtrude them- 
selves upon him for acceptance ; 
who withstands pernicious combi- 
nations, and dares even to set the 
example of breaking dishonest and 
disingenuous customs; who joins 
Openness to prudence, and benefi- 
cence to frugality ; who shews him- 
self candid to his rivals, modest in 
success, and cheerful under disap- 
pointments ;. and who adorns bis 
professional knowledge with the va- 
rious acquisitions of an enlarged 
and cultivated understanding—is a 
benefactor to his country and to 
mankind. His example and his in- 
fluence operate at once on the cii- 
cle in which he moves, and gradually 
extend themselves far and wide. 
Others, who have been witnesses of 
his proceedings and his virtues, imi- 
tate them both, and become the 
centre of improvement to additional 
circles. Thus a broad foundation 
is laid for purifying trade from the 
real stains which it has contracted, 
and of rescuing it from the dis- 
graceful imputations with which it 
is undeservedly charged. And thus 
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