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the allurement of corrupting pleafures ? Would 

 a young man be in fo much danger of being 

 drawn afide into conviviality, or fafhionable 

 amufements, if he had a rational and agreeable 

 entertainment at homej if he could retire from 

 his warehoufe, and relieve his jaded fpirits by 

 fome animating ftudy, and thus fet a finer edge 

 upon his mind again, blunted and worn down 

 by intenfe application ? 



It is plain, that many of our tradefmen, the 

 moft induftrious and fuccefsful, have many hours 

 of avocation Human nature could not endure 

 a perpetual fcrew to bufinefs, without relaxation. 

 Might not thefe hours be often filled up much 

 better, more honourably more ufcfully, more 

 happily, than they commonly are ? Would 

 mental cultivation, to a certain point, interfere 

 with the neceflary demands of bufinefs ? I know. 

 It is generally thought fo. But it is true in fadt? 

 Shall we be told, " That mod of our emjnent 

 tradefmen rofe from low beginnings by un- 

 remitting indufiry, whilfl. thofe, who fet out v.'ith 

 fairer fortune and profpefls, made comparatively 

 little progrefs ?" But is not the reafon of this, 

 that our young men, inftead of forming a manly 

 and cultivated tafte, ftll into company and 

 habits, which cffedually diffipated their minds, 

 and unfitted them for proper attention to any 

 important objed whatever ?. 



But, 



