20 Dr. Barnes's Plan for the Improvement and 



is plunged immediattly into the vortex of bufi- 

 nefs — and from that moment, almofl; the whole 

 of what he had been fo many years in learning, 

 is forgotten. M lead, little remains, but the 

 ■withered fcraps of knowledge, gleaned in his 

 fchool. All the fcience which a boy of an 

 ingenuous turn acquires, after this, mull: be 

 acquired without afTiftance. He has no precep- 

 tor to direct him; he. has no regular fyflem to 

 purfue •, his walks into the different ranges of 

 literature mufl: be defultory, folitary, and un- 

 comfortable. 



For, WHERE fhall this knowledge, or this taftc 

 be obtained ? — In a college, or univerfity ? — 

 But there, the expence deters : the danger 

 terrifies. Numbers of young men, many of 

 them irregularly educated, flufhed with money, 

 with confequence, with pafTions, too often 

 corrupt one another, and induce fatal habits 

 of extravagance, dilTipation, and indolence — 

 habits, entirely inconfiflent with the fobriety, 

 frucrality, and attention necefifary to future 

 fuccefs and reputation, in any line of life— and 

 above all, in business. 



Hence it is, that fo very few of thofe young 

 men, who are deftined for trade, enjoy any 

 advantages beyond thofe of a grammar fchool. 



It is granted, that the examples are too rare, 

 of thofe who have united, the manners of the 

 Gentleman, the tafte of the Scholar, and the 



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