Juvenile Characters. The Diligent Youth
R C, pseud. [Richard Cope]
Genre: | Regular Feature, Homily |
Subjects: | Endeavour, Scientific Practitioners, Putrefaction |
Observes that '[t]he arts and sciences have arrived at their present state' by means of 'gradual and diligent labour' (62). Quotes from Hugh Blair's Sermons the observation that '[i]dleness, like water, first putrifies by stagnation, and then sends up noxious vapours to injure the inhabitants of the earth' (64). | |
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