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youse; MEN' IS DA:oOER. 4t)
mind which neeu8 hardening, dissolyc5 t1e:
heart which lleed~ fortifying, sti~ the iJU3gination
which Heeds quieting, irritate~ the pas.
t1iuW:I which n('("d entITling, and, abovo all, disiudin~
anll disqualilles for active virtues and
!l.piritual excn::l!l.CS." Young meu must tako
heed what th('y reall, fU:) well as Low they hear.
fl'lIo eye i~a.~fruitful nn inld of e\'il fl." th~ enT.
It io Ill)' deliberate 0l,lnioll, that thouglltflll,
studious youth nre t;.xposeJ to few great~r perils
t'h:m are to Ue luun(1 in book~. ::;0 fully aw I
collvinced of this, that I could see a large majorityof
all the puulicatioll8 which l'urnc in
such crowds from the prcs''!-,couoigllctl to one
enormou:'l coutiagration, withont n lingering
regret. The nUllity to read and the 10\'c of
rea(lillg. like a thousand other things good in
thcmsdve."l. havc their attendant evil!'. .A bad
h\)ok lIlust exert a bad inlluenec1 and the more
touching it i~ in incident, ami the more capti.
vating in :!tyle, the worse of necessity this in.
tlucnce will bc-~
The heaviest censures upon ~Ilch works havo
fallen ~ometimes from the authors thcmsclve8.
Gold~mith, though a very popular novelist and