CHARLES WATERTON, ESQ. CXxix 



your future welfare. The scholar who reveres 

 his superiors is sure to become well informed, 

 and to acquire a large stock of virtue ; but he 

 who takes a pleasure in thwarting them will 

 probably be a dunce whilst he remains in the 

 college, and become a vicious man after he 

 shall have taken his departure from it. 



Sometimes there are certain youths who find 

 fault with every thing which their superiors 

 recommend to their notice. Turn a deaf ear 

 to the remarks of these empty-headed simple- 

 tons ; but treat them at the same time with 

 gentleness and charity, and try to persuade 

 them, by the progress which you yourself are 

 making in virtue and in learning, how much 

 they lose by running down the institutions of 

 the college, and how much you gain by up- 

 holding them. 



Believe me, my dear boy, I would never 

 send you to Stonyhurst, were I not convinced, 

 beyond all manner of doubt, that you cannot 

 go to a better place for your education. I 

 have the very highest opinion of it, and I hope 

 that you will have the same. I am sorry that 

 you should be separated from me ; but your 

 welfare requires that we should part for a 



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