Extenjion of Liberal Education in Manchejler. 2 ^ 



defirous to keep him longer under his own eye, 

 becaufe he is fenfible, he is lofing time, and in 

 danger of contrafting habits of indolence, or of 

 vice. 



And even after a young man is engaged in 

 bufinefs, there are many long evenings, and 

 many hours of avocation, which might be ufe- 

 fully and agreeably filled up. Shall all the 

 labour of fo many years, as have been fpent at 

 fchool, be loft, and buried in everlafting oblivion ? 

 Shall fo much pains have been taken, in laying 

 a foundation, and in ere6ting fcaffbldings, and 

 fhall the mind never rife from thence, to the 

 higher regions of literary improvement? Shall 

 a boy clofe his fchool books, and, from that 

 moment, never open them again ? Shall he bid 

 farewel to ftudy, and condemn the labour and 

 difficulty, which he underwent in the ftage of 

 youth, merely becaufe he has not learned to 

 apply the knowledge he there gained, to its 

 nobleft end ? 



It is indeed argued, by fome, " That fcience 

 and bufinefs are incompatible ; and that a tafte 

 for the one, almoft necefiarily difquaiines a man 

 for fucceeding in the other.'" But furely a tafte 

 for knowledge is not half fo detrimental, as that 

 rage for plcafure, which fo univerfally, and almoft 

 neccffarily prevails, where a better relifh has 

 not previoufly been formed. Would not a tafte 

 for manly knowledge be a noble antidote againft 



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