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LIFE OF WILSON. 
wish me to suggest any hints I may think proper for your present 
situation. Your own experience and prudence render anything I 
could advise unnecessary, as it is all included in the two resolutions 
which you have already taken ; first, to distinguish, as clearly as 
possible, the whole extent of your duty; and, secondly, to fulfil 
every item of that to the best of your abilities. Accordingly, the 
more extensive and powerful these are, the greater good you will 
be capable of doing; the higher and more dignified will your re- 
putation be ; and the easier and calmer will your deportment be, 
under every circumstance of duty. You have but these two things 
to surmount, and the whole routine of teaching will become an 
agreeable amusement ; and every closing day will shed over your 
mind that blissful tranquillity, “ which nothing earthly gives or 
can destroy.” 
“ Devote your whole time, except what is proper for needful 
exercise, to rendering yourself completely master of your business. 
For this purpose rise by the peep of dawn; take your regular walk; 
and then commence your stated studies. Be under no anxiety to 
hear what people think of you, or of your tutorship ; but study the 
improvement, and watch over the good conduct, of their childien 
consigned to your care, as if they were your own. Mingle respect 
and affability with your orders and arrangements. Never show 
yourself feverish or irritated ; but preserve a firm and dignified, a 
just and energetic deportment, in every emergency. To be com- 
pletely master of one’s business, and ever anxious to discharge it 
with fidelity and honour, is to be great, beloved, respectable and 
happy. 
“I could have wished that you had been accommodated with 
a room and boarding in a more private and retired situation, where 
your time and reflections would have been more your own ; and 
perhaps these may be obtained hereafter. Try to discover your 
own defects, and labour with all your energy to supply them. 
