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gations to all around him, and perpetuating 

 them to ages yet unborn. 



I can imagine no earthly paradise in which 

 the human heart could so rationally luxuriate ! 

 Even he who but plants a single oak, confers a 

 favor on generations not yet in existence ; but 

 how much more valuable a benefactor is that 

 individual who shall bestow lasting obligations 

 on the present, as well as on future times ? 

 A school for the education of one hundred and 

 fifty children on Dr. Bell's system, and on the 

 most liberal plan, has here been projected and 

 established by the indefatigable exertions of 

 the Right Reverend the Bishop of Derry. The 

 building for this establishment is substantial, 

 handsome, and commodious, without any thing 

 superfluous. One hundred and twenty-one of 

 the children taught, are of the Catholic persua- 

 sion. 



It will be a proud pre-eminence for Great 

 Britain to maintain among the civilized nations 

 of the world, if in twenty years from the present 

 period, few shall be found, out of her many mil- 

 lions, destitute of the ability to perceive and per- 

 form their duty towards their God and their 

 neighbour. Once endowed with the power of 

 convincing their own minds, that their interest 



