of Liberal Education in Manchefler. ^5 



not fome tafte for literary entertainment. Amufe- 

 meht is neceflary to young men. If this be not 

 enjoyed at home, and within them/elves, they will 

 fly abroad into company, and feek it, in taverns, . 

 in conviviality, and dilTipation. Hence, they 

 ■will form habits, of all others the mofl: un- 

 favourable to fuccefs in bufinefs, and againft 

 which, a relifh for manly fcience would have 

 been, next to religion, the nobleft antidote. 

 Let the lift of bankrupts be examined — For oney 

 who has fallen, a facrifice to literature and 

 refinement, it would be eafy to point out a hun- 

 dred, who have fallen, for want of that rational, 

 domeftic, and delightful entertainment, which 

 a proper tafte for knowledge would have af- 

 forded them. 



Few young men are admitted to manage a bufi- 

 nefs, till they are, at leaft, eighteen years of 

 age. Before this age, they would not, probably, 

 have prudence or fteadinefs, to deferve fo great 

 a confidence ! Till then, their intervals of leifure 

 give them a perfe(fl remiftion from care. The 

 improvement of their minds, in thefe intervals, 

 if not carried beyond a certain point, would: not 

 interfere with mercantile accomplifliments. It 

 would affx)rd a grateful recefs, from the buftle 

 and attention of bufinefs. It would hereafter 

 give a man the habit, and the means, of filling 

 up whatever leifure he may command, in a 

 moft agreeable manner. It would give him 



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