gentleman, if you rather prefer that deno- 
mination, immediately emerging from fchool, % 
is in truth, and without any reflexion on 
his abilities, as I have already obferved in a 
former letter, a very ignorant perfonage. 
He is ignorant of the world, confequently 
embarrafTed in his deportment, and totally 
unacquainted even with the principles of 
any fcience whatfoever. 
What then muft we think of thofe young 
gentlemen, and fuch young gentlemen are 
not very uncommon fpeftacles, who, with 
all thefe imperfections, inconfiderately dafh 
their opinions on all fubjefts, in the pre- 
fence of Learning and Experience? They 
are heard with companion, and they retire 
uninformed. 
Are we then, you will afk, to aft the part 
of mutes? No: not abfolutely; but a 
young ftripling who talks, only becaufe he 
thinks he ought not to be filent, had much 
better hold his tongue. If he prefume to 
take the lead in converfation, he muft in- 
fallibly expofe himfelf; becaufe, like a poor 
prodigal, he is extravagant without a fundj 
and, like an ignorant pilot, he runs aground 
before he has difcovered the coaft. If he 
venture to give his opinion on politics, the 
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