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PATH OF LIFE,

FAITHFULLY

EXHIBITED AND AFFECTIONATELY RECOMMENDED

TO THE YOUNG,

ON THEIR

GOING OUT INTO THE WORLD

BY

JOHN CLUNIE, LL.D.

Ὃν τρόπον ἐπὶ τῶν φυτῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν νέων, ἡ πρότη φυὴ
προδείκνυσι τὸν μέλλοντα καρπὸν τῆς ἀρετῆς.-DEMOPH.

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JACKSON AND WALFORD,

18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1836.

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TO THOSE

GENTLEMEN WHOM HE HAS EDUCATED,

WHO ARE NOW HONOURABLY

"SERVING THEIR GENERATION"

IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF LIFE;

WHETHER IN THE

DUTIES OF THE STATE,

OR AT THE

ALTARS OF THE CHURCHES,

EITHER ESTABLISHED OR PROTECTED, AT HOME OR ABROAD;

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THE PATH OF LIFE.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS,

BE assured that a sincere regard for your best interests, is the sole motive which has induced me to address you on the present occasion. You know with what anxiety I have watched over your improvement in literature and science, and have observed your various tempers and dispositions, the habits you have formed, the society you have preferred, and the spirit and deportment which you have manifested. Among the numerous pupils whom I have had the pleasure of educating, there must have been a very great diversity in these respects; but I trust I have, on many occasions, made it manifest to you that I neither expected what was unreasonable,

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