THE LATEST EDITION.

_BY J. HAMILTON MOORE_,

AUTHOR OF

THE PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR AND SEAMAN'S NEW DAILY ASSISTANT.


1802.




PREFACE.

_As the design of Learning is to render persons agreeable companions to
themselves, and useful members of society; to support solitude with
pleasure, and to pass through promiscuous temptations with prudence;
'tis presumed, this compilation will not be unacceptable; being composed
of pieces selected from the most celebrated moral writers in the English
language, equally calculated to promote the principles of religion, and
to render youth vigilant in discharging, the social and relative duties
in the several stations of life; by instilling into their minds such
maxims of virtue and good-breeding, as tend to eradicate local
prejudices and rusticity of manners; and at the same time, habituate
them to an elegant manner of expressing themselves either in Writing or
Speaking._