1 8 Dr. Barneses Plan for the Improvement and 



lead of leflening, the multiplicity of cares and 

 attentions which now prefs upon him. The de- 

 cline of life feems to call for refpite and confo- 

 lation. But how tliall this recefs from hufinefs 

 be fuppdrted, without fome tafte for letters ? 

 1 cannot fio-ure to myfelf a more miferable fixu- 

 ation, than that of one, who retires from the 

 hurrv of the world, yet has no furniture of mind, 

 to crrace or to fweeten his retirement r Unqua- 

 lified for every liberal and fuperior entertain- 

 ment, he will probably fink down, into languor 

 — intoxication — and lethargy. 



It is the natural, the laudable wifh, of every 

 p::rent, whom the bleffing of Providence has 

 laifed to any degree of affluence, that his fon 

 may appear in the world, with characler and 

 accomplirtirnents, worthy of the refpeftable line, 

 into which his father's fortune may introduce 

 him. Mere money, without knowledge or 

 virtue, is contemptible and mifchievrus, in 

 exa'ft proportion to its amount. I le muft have 

 amufeaients and companions. Put thcfe will he 

 of the loweft, and mofc degrading caft. His 

 money, however, be will deem fufTicient to give 

 him fclf-confcquence. With flatterers, with the 

 mob, it tnny. But, deffitute of the b'eft poffef- 

 fions, he will be an objeft of contempt, to all 

 men of fenfe^— and of compaffion, to every man of 

 humanity and ferioufncfs. 



Without 



