An introductory lecture, on the necessity and value of professional industry : delivered in the chapel of Transylvania University, November 7th, 1823 / by Daniel Drake ... : published by request of the class.

  • Daniel Drake
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1823
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Credit: An introductory lecture, on the necessity and value of professional industry : delivered in the chapel of Transylvania University, November 7th, 1823 / by Daniel Drake ... : published by request of the class. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ardent aspirations, capable of affording actual pleasure. Then follow a train of positive grat- ifications and benefits, embracing all that is de- lightful to good taste ;resp > the desire for knowledg •; gratifying to ambition; available to avarice, or satiating to tlie love of glory. 1/ a provident temper of mind make you de* sirous of guarding against the gloomy insignifi- eance—the sad and solitary nothingness of ai Dorant old age; you must accomplish it, l>\ in- dustry in youth; and such industry is peculiarly appropriate to tins object, in ourde dining years, the knowledge acquired in early life, is almost all thai remains with ns. The first . the tablet of the mind are the last to be effaced. What a resistless motive foreai ]y dil »ted by this important Ian of human nature; and from it> frequent stor in the Iliad, be< omc in obi ... »f a i-dorr-to t!ic i : \ our breast a Samar- itan the a< i >d to i may be I lid t< of the I for, Heaven itself, will lock op u a
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