"I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, or fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful to me, and I believe most useful, I should prefer a firm religious belief' to every other blessing: it makes life a discipline of goodness; creates new hopes when all earthly hopes vanish, and throws over the decay-the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity, making torture and sorrow the means of ascent to paradise."-SIR HUMPHREY DAVY. THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN'S BOOK; CONTAINING A SERIES OF CHOICE READINGS IN Popular Science and Natural History, TOGETHER WITH RETROSPECTIVE ESSAYS, CONVERSATIONS, LITERARY REMINISCENCES, ETC. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO. JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN; CONSTABLE AND CO., EDINBURGH; M.DCCC.XXXII. |