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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by
CAREY AND HART,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA:
T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS,
PRINTERS.
ΤΟ
THE STUDENTS
OF THE
Classical, Medical, Legal and Theological Schools
OF
PHILADELPHIA,
THIS
AMERICAN EDITION
GLOWING APPEAL OF AN ENTHUSIASTIC SCHOLAR OF THE
SIXTEENTH CENTURY,
IS
DEDICATED
BY THE EDITOR.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR.
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CHAP.
I. We must first of all, by a careful and impartial'estimation
of our own abilities, determine to what height we can
reasonably hope to aspire, and then make every exertion
for its attainment
II. We must love our studies and despise luxury
III. We must never despair
IV. We must think lightly of riches
V. The student must be desirous of praise
VI. By what means knowledge is to be attained
VIII. Hearing lectures of little use, without private study
IX. We must not suffer an unbecoming timidity to hinder us
in the pursuit of knowledge
X. We must accustom ourselves to writing much, and not
suffer ourselves to be led away by the desire of a vain and
transitory popularity
XI. By what signs they who are likely to rise to literary emi-
nence may be distinguished
XII. Youth is the time for exertion
XIII. We must not suffer a moment to escape us without profit
XIV. We must look to our own studies, and not concern our-
selves too much about the progress of others
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XV. We must not waste too much time in sleep
XVI. What time is best adapted to study
XVII. On bodily exercise
XVIII. On slothfulness
XIX. Our recreative amusements should, as far as possible, be
rendered subservient to the purposes of literature
. 77
I. Extract from Erpenius' Preface to his edition of Ringel-
II. "College Discipline," from Whytehead's "College Life." 87
III. "On the Dignity of the Profession," from an unpublished lecture to Medical Students, by Dr. Mütter
IV. "Legal Education," from Lord Brougham
V. "Of the Errors to be avoided in the study of Divinity,"
from Du Pin's Complete Method of Study, &c.
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VI. “Frequent changes in the plan of Study,” from “ Hand
Book for Readers and Students," by A. Potter, D.D. 102