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THE

SCHOOLBOY'S MANUAL,

AND

YOUNG MAN'S MONITOR;

BEING A

COLLECTION OF SCRIPTURAL EXTRACTS,

AND OTHER

MORAL AND PRUDENTIAL MAXIMS;

DESIGNED AS AN ANTIDOTE TO THE CORRUPTIONS
OF THE WORLD AND OF THE HUMAN HEART
IN THE EARLY STAGES OF LIFE.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and
when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Prov. xxii. 6.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

Printed by J. Brettell,

Rupert Street, Haymarket, London,

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PREFACE.

THE object of this little selection of passages from Scripture is to place before young people a sketch of the Christian character, as a sort of model to form their own characters upon; at a time of life when they are apt to think they have nothing to do but to attend to their lessons and their amusements. It appears to the Author that the moral character is generally formed too late in life; and that it is the result of chance rather than system, and formed without any model, except that of unconnected and desultory instruction. Whilst we are in a state

of pupilage we are apt to think that we have nothing to do in the business of our education but to learn our appointed tasks: and when our pupilage has ended, we fancy that our education has ended too; and that we have nothing to do but to attend to our pleasures or our worldly interests. So that the character is left to form itself from chance impressions and desultory observation, without any defined model, or any precise aim, or any system of principles established in the mind. Our notions of virtue are vague, general, and undefined: and the moral instruction diffused through the different subjects of our studies is so interwoven with other things, that it wants the efficiency of a condensed operation. The Author has therefore thought, that by embodying the Chris