STUDY.

ILE some are lost in dissipation and lessness, there are others whose minds orbed in diligent and laborious study. And, to have no taste for intellectual pleasures, o put man but a small remove from the tribes. He who cannot bear thinking, or has no disposition for investigation, but ings merely from the report of others, or are imposed upon him by custom or preis a mere slave, and hardly can be wise. emark worthy of attention, that "Thinkbeen one of the least exerted privileges of ed humanity." It must be confessed there nuch truth in the observation. That all ink, is not denied; but, alas! few think opriety, few bend their thoughts to right few divest themselves of the shackles of ce and custom: to be, however, intellio be candid, to be useful, a man should inself to application. In a word, he who be happy in himself, respectable in society, lessing to the world, should industriously re in the study of those subjects which culated to enlarge the mind, ameliorate the tion, and promote the best interests of man

Instances of intense Study, &c.

mosthenes's application to study was sur. To be the more removed from noise, subject to distraction, he caused a small

er to be made for him under ground in

which he shut himself up sometimes for whol months, shaving on purpose half his head and face, that he might not be in a condition to g abroad. It was there, by the light of a small lamp he composed the admirable orations, which wer said, by those who envied him, to smell of the oil, to imply that they were too elaborate. "It is plain," replied he, "your's did not cost you s much trouble." He rose very early in the mor ning, and used to say, that "he was sorry wher any workman was at his business before him.' He copied Thucydides' history, eight times, with his own hand, in order to render the style of tha great man familiar to him.

Adrian Turnebus, an illustrious French critic was indefatigable in his application to study, inso much, that it was said of him, as it was of Bu dæus, that he spent some hours of study even o the day he was married.

Frederick Morel had so strong an attachment to study, that, when he was informed of his wife' being at the point of death, he would not lay down his pen till he had finished what he was upon and when she was dead, as she was before they could prevail upon him to stir, he was only heard to reply coldly," I am very sorry; she was good woman."

Sir Isaac Newton, it is said, when he had any mathematical problems or solutions in his mind would never quit the subject on any account Dinner has been often three hours ready for him before he could be brought to table. His man of ten said, when he has been getting up of a mor ning, he has sometimes begun to dress, and with one leg in his breeches sat down again on the bed

has remained for hours before he has thes on.

raham Sharp, the astronomer, through f study, was very irregular as to his ich he frequently took in the following a little square hole, something like a made a communication between the e he usually studied and another chamhouse where a servant could enter; and hole he had contrived a sliding-board: t always placed his victuals in this hole, peaking a word, or making the least d when he had a little leisure he visited ard, to see what it contained, to satisfy r or thirst. But it often happened that ast, the dinner, and the supper remained 1 by him, when the servant went to ret was left; so deeply was he sometimes n his calculations and solemn musings. d, that, at one time, after his provisions neglected for a long season, his family, asy, resolved to break in upon his rehe complained, but with great mildthey had disconcerted his thoughts, in a alculations which had cost him intense n for three days successively. On an old where for a long course of years he used cavities might easily be perceived, worn rpetual rubbing of his arms and elbows, as been the pleasure arising from readtudy, that even the full prospect of death not eradicated the love for it.

famous Hooker it is related, that not

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ticularly to finish his Ecclesiastical Polity, and said often to a friend who visited him daily, tha "he did not beg a long life of God for any othe reason, but to live to finish the three remainin books of Polity; and then, Lord let thy servan depart in peace," which was his usual expression A few days before his death his house was rob bed; of which having notice, he asked, "Are m books and written papers safe?" And being an swered that they were, "Then," said he, " matters not, for no other loss can trouble me.”

A singular circumstance is related of the illus trious Boerhaave, who kept feeling his pulse, th morning of his death, to see whether it woul beat till a book he was eager to see was publish ed. He read the book, and said, "Now the bu siness of life is over."

When Gesner found his last hour approach ing, he gave orders to be carried into his stud that he might meet death in a place which ha been most agreeable to him in his life.

The Progress of Old Age in New Studies. Cato, at eighty years of age, thought proper learn Greek; and Plutarch, almost as late in lif Latin.

Henry Spelman, having neglected the scienc in his youth, cultivated them at fifty years, a produced good fruit.

Fairfax, after having been general of the pa liamentary forces, retired to Oxford to take h degrees in law.

Colbert, the famous French minister, almost sixty returned to his Latin and law studies.

the chancellor of France, learnt logic ran amusement, to dispute with his

ren.

a the above instances be somewhat sinyoung persons should beware of pron, and not lose the present moment in n of improving the future. Very few e of making any proficiency under the le of old age, and when they have been stomed to negligent habits. Great deindigested erudition have often charac-qubes, or "late learned,"

Singular Methods of Study.

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corded of Anthony Magliabechi, that ion was continually absorbed day and his books. An old cloak served him n in the day, and for bed clothes at e had one straw chair for his table, and or his bed, in which he generally rexed, in the midst of a heap of volumes s, until he was overpowered with sleep : his intense application to reading, his e was well estimated in the observaied to him, that he was a learned man ooksellers, and a bookseller among the

Williams, an English prelate, used to a particular way. He used to allot one › a certain province, esteeming variety refreshing as cessation from labour; at of which he would take up some other nd so on till he came round to his for