LONDON:

PRINTED

Sam: Miller.

Imberbis Juvenis, tandem-custode remoto,
Gaudet equis canibusque et aprici gramine campi:
Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper,
Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus æris,
Sublimis, cupidusque, et amata relinquere pernix.

HORAT. ART. POET.

MEN.

BY C.

Charles Street, Hatton Garden,

FOR J, JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

STOWER,

CONTENTS.

On Sobermindedness

On Religion, Part I.

Ditto, Part II.

On the Pursuit of Knowledge

On Company

On Conversation

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71

93

115

On Sympathy towards the Sex and Marriage 136
On Application to Trade, or a Profession

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Addresses, except the two last, have lain by the Author some years. An anxious concern for the future conduct and happiness of several young gentlemen, on removing from under his tuition, suggested the composition of the first of them. This gave birth to those which follow. They are now printed from an earnest desire to serve the rising generation; and, with this view are submitted to the candor of the public, especially of YOUNG MEN, to whom we look up as the pillars of society, and with ardent hope that they will shew themselves EXAM