Page 203 - Third Book of Reading Lessons

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1. ALMOST all the duties of scholars have been in­ cluded in 'this one piece of advice,-to love those who teach them, as they love the knowledge which they derive om them; and to look upon them as thers, om whom they derive, not the li of the body, but that instruction, which is, in a manner, the life of the soul. Indeed, this sentiment of a ec­ tion and respect su ces to make them apt to learn
during the time of their studies, and fu11 of gratitude all the rest of their lives. It seems to me to include a great part of what is to be expected om them. Docility, which consists in submitting to directions, in readily receiving the instructions of their masters, and in reducing them to practice, is properly the vir­ tue of scholars, as that of masters is to teach well. The one can do nothing without the other; and as it is not su cient r a labourer to sow the seed, un­ less the earth, a er having opened its bosom to receive it, in a manner hatches, warms, and moistens it ; so, likewise, the good uit of instruction depends upon a good correspondence between the masters and the scholars.
2. Gratitude to those who have laboured in our education, is the character of an honest man, and the mark of a good heart. "Who is there among us," says an ancient orator, " that has been instructed with any care, who is not highly delighted with the sight, or even the bare remembrance of his teachers, and of the place where he was taught and brought up?"
3. An ancient philosopher exhorts young men to preserve always a great respect r their masters, to whose care they are indebted r the amendment of
their ults, and r havin imbibed sentiments of
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