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LIFE OF WILSON. 
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 children 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 ener- 
getic deportment, in every emergency. To be completely 
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. Respect yourself, and fear nothing but vice and 
idleness. If one had no other reward for doing one’s duty, 
but the grateful sensations arising therefrom on the retrospec- 
tion, the recompense would be abundant, as these alone are 
able to bear us up amidst every reverse. 
•5^ ^ ■5!^ 
“ At present I cannot enlarge further, my own mind being 
harrassed with difficulties relative to my publication. I have 
now no farther dependence on Murray; and I mean to make it 
consistent both with the fame, and the interest, of Lawson to 
do his best for me. I hope you will continue to let me hear 
from you, from time to time. I anticipate much pleasure from 
the improvements which I have no doubt you will now make 
in the several necessary departments of your business. Wish- 
ing you every success in your endeavours to excel, I remain, 
with sincere regard, &c. ” 
In the early part of the year 1812, Wilson published his fifth 
volume; and as the preface is interesting, we here insert an ex- 
tract from it, for the gratification of the reader. 
