Hints on Study and the Employment of Time, is a
well-in- tentioned collection of solemn, twaddling, and commonplace re- marks to young persons, by a late member of the Honourable
i Society of the Middle Temple. Time n the abstract is felt to be so precieus—future exertion is in fancy so easy—that few read
formal exhortations to husband their time, and, " the little busy bee, improve each shining hour,' without purposing, or at least for a moment wishing, to follow the advice. But our author is so far astern of the living world, that he fails even in stimu- lating the mind to this small advance. Where he can have passed his days we know not; but he actually directs the student to read his bock, first without the notes, and then to study
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it diligently in connexion with the notes,—as f anybody ever read a modern book twice, or even once without skipping !
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