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to say, do not do it ; in you it would show avarice, 

 and consequent meanness, as it would if you made 

 any sacrifice of joxly time, pleasures, or enjoyment, 

 to fill a situation in some measure compromising one, 

 or all of them, for the sake of making money ; but 

 as respects the man to whom a few hundreds a year 

 is a matter of importance, the thing assumes a widely 

 different appearance. In him it is prudence, whether 

 ho does it to enable him to the more fully indulge in 

 such pursuits as he finds gratification in, or for the 

 still more prudent wish of adding to his income. 

 There can be no doubt but that doing anything in 

 any way savouring of trading is contrary to the true 

 spirit of the idea conveyed by the term gentleman ; 

 it more or less gives a bias to the mind, at variance 

 with the education, habits, and associations insepa- 

 rable from the gentleman. He has been taught by 

 precept and example how to spend money as a gen- 

 tleman, not how to make it ; and this is a marked 

 distinction between the gentleman and the trader ; 

 tlie . latter may assume the characteristics of the 

 former as much as he pleases, or rather, as much as 



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