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 JACKSON AND WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1836. 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; 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, |