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Letters to a Student in the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Letters to a Student in the University of Cambridge Massachusetts Author:John Clarke Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: letter v. CLASSICAL STUDIES. OU muft have obferved, and it is poffible with fome furprife, that I have made no inquiries relative to your future profeffion... more ». I have not impertinently alked, whether it is your intention to be a lawyer, a phyfician, or a minifter ;—whether ftudy is to be the employment of your life, or the pleafing entertainment of a leifure hour ; whether your wifhes would lead you to active or fedentary purfuits. Shall I fay, I have avoided thefe queftions by defign ? If I could predict your future employment, it would produce no change in the tenour of my counfels. And may I add, if you have made up your own judgment, it ought to have no influence in the choice of your ftudies. General knowledge is the objecl: contemplated by a publick education. And to deferve the reputation of a fcholar, your acquifitions mould be as various as the branches of fcience cultivated at the univerfity ; and as extemlve as the tranfient term of four years will allow. The more you know, the more brilliant the figureure which you will make, whatever walk of life you may finally choofe. The Various objefts of human knowledge have an intimate connexion. And,whilft thteir unicfti gives ftrength to geniusi, it multiplies the fources of literary pleafure. Amnerai arrangement of col- lege-ftudies I exhibited in imy laft fet- tr. According fe"tfeft atfange- nteftt, .a vety HBpoittrlt place is af- figned to the Ores and RoM.Ai CiAsandi"R. Ydti may perhap9, 'en- ttrtain the flattering thought, that you .are already a proficient ifl this branch of literature. Famifiar with Cicero afcd Virgil;, with Horace and .t Cefar,Cefar, you may be willing to difcoH- tinue the acquaintance. You may turn from the Sacred Clafficks, as no longer deferving your attention. And you may be hardly perfuad...« less