DR. JOHN D. GOD MAN. U 



you study the Latin language with Mr. Creery?' 

 ( No, he does not teach any but an English school/ 

 ( Do you intend to prosecute your studies alone ? ; 

 e I do ; and I will, if I live, make myself a Latin, 

 Greek, and French scholar/ " 



In 1812 he was bound an apprentice to a printer 

 of a newspaper, in Baltimore, but soon became much 

 dissatisfied with the occupation, which, he said, in a 

 letter to a friend, " cramped his genius over a font 

 of types, where there are words without ideas. " He 

 had been placed in this situation against his own 

 wish, being anxious to enter a more intellectual 

 pursuit, and had selected that of medicine ; but his 

 guardian was opposed to it. 



His early views of the Christian religion are thus 

 expressed in a letter to a friend, in the early part of 

 1814 : "I have not ever had a fixed determination 

 to read the works of that modern serpent (Thomas 

 Paine), nor had I determined not to do it; and it 

 seems to me surprising that a fellow-student of yours 

 should recommend the perusal of such writings. 



" There is a great comfort in the belief of that 

 glorious doctrine of salvation that teaches us to look 

 to the Great Salvator for happiness in a future life ; 

 and it has always been my earnest desire, and I must 

 endeavour to die the death of the righteous, that my 

 last end and future state may be like His. It would 

 be a poor hope indeed, it would be a sandy founda- 

 tion for a dying soul, to have no hope but such as 

 might be derived from the works of Bolingbroke and 

 Paine ; and how rich the consolation and satisfaction 



