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arrangement of time. Want of oeconomy in this 
point is equally, if not more injurious, than in 
pecuniary matters. 
It will be alfo allowed, that the profeflion, in 
which each individual is engaged, Ihould, next 
to the more important interefts of religion, at¬ 
tract and employ his principal attention. But the 
mind of man, and efpecially of young men, muft 
be provided with amufements. The young trades¬ 
man of fortune has generally many hours of lei- 
fure, and if amufements be neceflary to footh the 
rugged paths of bufinefs, (hall we choofe thofe 
which lead to difiipation, to extravagance, to vice, 
or fuch as tend to civilize the mind and improve 
the underftanding, by developing the operations 
of nature, explaining the nice connexion which 
fubfifts between the lowed: and higher order of 
beings. 
To man’s imperial race. 
From the green myriads in the peopled grafs ; 
and tracing the hand of Omnipotence through 
every link of that 
Vaft chain of being, which from God began. 
Nature’s etherial, human, angel, man, 
Bead, bird, fifti, infedl, what no eye can fee. 
No glafs can reach. * 
Will not the time he can Spare from bufinefs be 
more ufcfully employed in the ftudy of hiftory, 
* Pope’s Effay on Man, Ep. I. 
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