SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A FATHER
TO HIS SON.

BY J. THORNTON.

LONDON:

FREDERICK WESTLEY & A. H. DAVIS,
STATIONERS' HALL COURT, & AVE-MARIA LANE;
AND SOLD BY JOHN BOYD, EDINBURGH; AND G. TYRREL,

DUBLIN.

1829.

LONDON:

1. T. HINTON, 8, WARWICK SQUARE.

CONTENTS.

LETTER I.

Counsels and Cautions with reference to

those Things which affect the Character.

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1

LETTER VII.

On the Danger of forming indolent, extrava-

gant, or repulsive Habits

LETTER VIII.

On the Errors and Inconsistencies which

prevail in the religious World

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155

180

PREFACE.

THE favourable reception of a former series of letters, laid before the public, has induced the author to prepare the present volume, for the use of the same juvenile readers. But while he keeps in view the same class, it is with a recollection of their advancement in years, and with a reference to those circumstances and changes which usually attend them. In a word,