Extracts from various authors, and fragments of table-talk : afternoons at L*********.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Extracts from various authors, and fragments of table-talk : afternoons at L*********. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Every age a man passes through, and way of life < he engages in, has some particular vice or imperfec- f tion naturally cleaving to it, which it will require his nicest care to avoid. The several weaknesses, • to which youth, old age, and manhood are exposed, f have long since been set down by many, both of the poets and philosophers; but I do not remember to have met with any author who has treated of those C ill habits men are subject to, not so much by reason y? of their different ages and tempers, as the particu- lar professions or business in which they were edu- cated and brought up.— E. BuDGELL, Spectator, < 197. ^ < Every situation and employment in life influ- ences, by a variety of moral causes, the views, ‘ manners, tempers, and dispositions of those who are placed in it. — T. Gisborne, Enquiry into the Duties of Men, Ch. x. ■ : What are called the learned Professions, allow ‘ no leisure for any pursuit that looks beyond the ] present. The Lawyer has no sooner obtained a ]| professional reputation, than he becomes the very | slave of his practice ; and well is it if his own soul ^ is not entangled in the snares which he is per- petually engaged in spinning for others. The Phy- sician has indeed the advantage that his path is in the way of intellectual and moral improvement; but his, also, is an occupation which engrosses him, and which rarely can leave the mind at leisure, or at ease, for excursive and voluntary labors. From the Clergy more might be expected, and more is