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lived and fruitful, if its temperament had 

 been hardened by early privation. — Thus it 

 fares , if I may be pardoned the reflection , 

 with the mind of an ingenuous youth, which, 

 under better influences , might have been 

 formed to virtue. If the lesson of disinterest- 

 edness had been early inculcated , it might 

 have been indelibly learned ; he might have 

 been lead to sacrifice fame to humanity, as 

 unhesitatingly as he sacrifices pleasure to 

 fame. But, instead of being taught to consult 

 only the unchanging principles of rectitude , 

 and to be satisfied with the pleasures of be- 

 nevolence, he is sedulously inspired with the 

 love of glory ; his ambition is fomented till 

 this ungenerous passion assumes the ascend- 

 ant in his breast , and becomes the arbiter of 

 his existence. 



When the nurselings are arrived at a 

 proper age, the next step is to transplant 

 them to the olive-yard. The task of preparing 

 the ground for their reception should be 

 begun immediately after the harvest. Holes 

 or trenches, at least three feet wide, arc 

 dug, and left mouldering till the close of 

 winter, which is the season for transplanting 



