you can pass your days, though not with the highest approbation of others, at least with full satisfaction to yourselves! Happy, if in the eve of life, when health and years and other joys decline, you can look back with conscious joy upon the unremitting tenor of an upright conduct; framed and uniformly supported to the last on these noble principles-Religion without hypocrisy, generosity without ostentation, justice tempered with goodness, and patriotism with every domestic virtue!

Ardently praying that this may be your lot, I shall take leave of you in the words of old Pollonius to his son

The friends you have, and their adoption try'd,
Grapple them to your soul with hooks of steel.
But do not dull your palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd unfledg'd comrade. Beware
Of enterance to a quarrel-

Give every man your ear, but few your voice.
Take each man's censure, but reserve your judgment.
This above all-to your own-selves be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

You cannot then be false to any man.

SHAKSPEARE.

These things I have sketched for you as the ontlines of your duty. I pretend not to go farther. It is not my present business to offer a perfect plan for the conduct of life. Indeed my experience in it has such an arduous work. And I hope to be judged rather by what I have said, than by what could not properly be said, on such an occasion.

been too small for

As for the rest, I shall commit you to the best of masters. Be sure, in all things, to learn of Christ. In following him you cannot err. And to do so will be your interest, and your greatest glory, at a time when human wisdom shall fail, and of the things that now are, virtue-immortal virtue-shall be the great and chief survivor!

Farewel! my blessing season these things in you.

THE END OF VOL. I.

SHAKSPEARE.