Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address to Parents and Youth on the Choice of a Profession: Delivered at the Bel-Air Academy, at the End of the Academic Year, July 14, 1852
Too often, alas! He waits in vain; for while he deliberates and hesitates, the youth, surrounded by temptations at an age when he is peculiarly prone to be enticed into the devious paths Of vice, being left without a legitimate and worthy Ob j ect of pursuit, becomes a prey to ennui, or plunges into the vortex of dissipation and debauchery.
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