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system of ethics; in which you will perceive, 

 as with the philosophers of old, that *TO BEAR 

 AND TO FORBEAR make up the sum of every 

 virtue. 



Thus far have I deemed it expedient, with an 

 ideal presence, to attend you, step by step, in 

 order to trace with more effect, the precise out- 

 lines of that system by which the conduct of 

 your pupil, from his first approach up to the final 

 possession of his game, is hereafter to be regu- 

 lated. I have exhibited to you the principle of 

 obedience sufficiently exemplified, and have 

 endeavoured to give you a clear idea of the 

 method of enforcing it under each of the general 

 heads of duty. In doing this, I have put into 

 your hands a clue by which you will henceforth 

 be able to manage him yourself; arid I shall now 

 claim the privilege of withdrawing a personal 

 attendance, which I conceive to be no longer 

 necessary to either, whilst, in the more con- 

 venient form of an epistolary address, I shall 

 hereafter, in a desultory way perhaps, but not 

 without a purpose of more extensive utility to 



Ave^ov Kai avf^ov. EPICT. 



