bit is the beft feature in an amiable cha-t 
rafter, and the ftrongeft proof of a found 
undemanding. 
The late King of Pruflia, whom, when 
youliaveTead" his pofthumous volumes, you 
wilTconlider as a man of fuperlative abili- 
ties, concludes hlFdefcnption of every bat- 
tle which he fougKF, with an impartial re- 
capitulation of his own miftakes, and fre-~ 
quentTy r with a^generbus acknowledgment" 
oTtrTe~^5ctfef Conduct of his^iTjemy^ 
~Befides the vanity, in young men, of ap- 
pearing to know more than any young man 
can podibly know, there is another fpecies 
of pride to which youth in general is ex- 
tremely prone. I mean that of appearing 
rich. Now, though no young man be weak 
enough to maintain, that riches imply the 
leaft degree of merit in the pofTerTor, yet 
the idle vanity of being fuppofed to have a 
large allowance to fpend, is more generally 
the caufe of ruin to ftudents at the Univer- 
fity, than any natural propenfity to extra- 
vagance. 
Every attempt to appear more learned, 
more knowing, more powerful, or richer 
than we really are, is foolifli in the extreme; 
for, if we fucceed at all in the deception, it 
is 
