I do not mean to propose him to your lordship for a model.  I never imagined that your talents qualified you for the most distant resemblance of him; and I wished to convince you how inferior they were.  Beside, my lord, he did not act upon the Machiavelian plan.  His system was that of integrity, frankness, and confidence.  He desired to meet his enemies; and the more extensive the ground upon which he could meet them, the better.  I was never idle enough to think of such a line of conduct for your lordship.  Go on then in those crooked paths, and that invisible direction, for which nature has so eminently fitted you.  Intrench yourself behind the letter of the law.  Avoid, carefully avoid, the possibility of any sinister evidence.  And having uniformly taken these precautions, defy all the malice of your enemies.  They may threaten, but they shall never hurt you.  They may make you tremble and shrink with fancied terrors, but they shall never be able to man so much as a straw against you.  Immortality, my lord, is suspended over your head.  Do not shudder at the sound.  It shall not be an immortality of infamy.  It shall only be an immortality of contempt.

THE END.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE SEMINARY

That will be opened

On MONDAY the Fourth Day of AUGUST,

At EPSOM in SURREY,

For the INSTRUCTION of

TWELVE PUPILS

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The GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, and ENGLISH Languages.

M.DCC.LXXXIII.

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SEMINARY, &C.

The two principal objects of human power are government and education.  They have accordingly engrossed a very large share in the disquisitions of the speculative in all ages.  The subject of the former indeed is man, already endowed with his greatest force of body, and arrived at the exercise of his intellectual powers:  the subject of the latter is man, as yet shut up in the feebleness of childhood, and the imbecility of inexperience.  Civil society is great and unlimited in its extent; the time has been, when the whole known world was in a manner united in one community:  but the sphere of education has always been limited.  It is for nations to produce the events, that enchant the imagination, and ennoble the page of history:  infancy must always pass away in the unimportance of mirth, and the privacy of retreat.  That government however is a theme so much superior to education, is not perhaps so evident, as we may at first imagine.