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spots i’ the bottom of a cowslip,’ or the loftier phenom-
ena of the heavens, contemplated through the alterna-
tions of hope and despondency, are the principal sources
whence the youth, whose adverse circumstances and
resignation under them extort our sympathy, drew the
faithful and vivid pictures before us.

13. “Examples of minds highly gifted by nature,
struggling with and breaking through the bondage of
adversity, are not rare in this country: but privation
is not destitution; and the instance before us is, per-
haps, one of the most striking of patient and persever-
ing talent existing and enduring in the most forlorn
and seemingly hopeless condition, that literature has at

any time exhibited.”

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LESSON VII.
On the Duties of Schoolboys. — Roun.

1. QuintILiAN includes almost all the duty of scholars
in this one piece of advice which he gives them: ‘To
love those who teach them, as they love the sciences
which they learn of their instructers; and to look upon
their teachers as fathers, from whom they derive n

- the life of the body, but that instruction which is, in a

manner, the life of the mind. If they possess this sen-
timent of affection and respect, it suffices to make them
apt to learn during the time of their studies, and full
of gratitude all the rest of their lives.

2. Docility, which consists in submitting to the direc-
tions given them, in readily receiving the instructions
of their masters, and in reducing these to practice, is
properly the virtue of scholars, as that of masters is to
teach well. The one can do nothing without the other.
And as it is not sufficient for a laborer to sow the
seed, unless the earth, after having opened her bosom
to receive it, encourages its growth by warmth and
moisture, so the whole fruit of instruction depends up-
on a good correspondence between the master and the
scholar.

3. Gratitude for those who have labored in our edu-