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has chosen, in spite of the frown of fortune, as her husband.
" Of
this let the
ations in
life,
in
cannot meliorate
and
if 'he
young be assured
;
there are few situ-
which a man, young, and in health, he possess energy
his circumstances, if
The
be stimulated by a true affection.
cler-
gyman, with humble stipena, often hopeless from want of interest, has leisure he has had education. He may,
if
literary
he desires to labor, or to
have recourse to
assist himself,
If he
tuition.
ertion, during the course of
make
not such ex-
an engagement, what hope
can there be of him in future life ? " The young lawyer, however tedious his advancement, however few his opportunities, may also distinguish him-
Innumerable are the subjects How few avail themone of such a profession.
self in a literary career.
'
open
to
selves of the chance
love will
make
Upon
!
the effort.
this rely, the
man
truly in
To the
military man, though the same course is open,
be less qualified, of our best travels, some of our most amusing literary productions, have been the com-
perhaps he
may
in a degree.
Some
positions of military
mode
men.
And
of aiding a small fortune
the advantage of this that a man not only
is,
does not lower, but he raises his position by it, if his in a gentlemanly spirit, and af-
works are moral, written fording
information.
however agreeable the
However deep the attachment, object, if a
man
be indisposed, to
help himself to independence and competence. I should counsel no woman to continue an engagement formed in the expectation of 'times mending.'
When
I advocate