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Excerpt from Biblical Repertory, Vol. 3: No. 2
As oft, benign, The sapient nurse, when anxious to enforce On the pale boy, the Wormwood's bitter draught, W1th luscious honey tints the goblet's edge, Deceiving thus, while yet unus 'd to gulle, His unsuspecting lip; till deep he drinks, And gathers vigour from the venial eheat? We are aware, mdeed, that many teachers are accustomed to profess, that they have discovered a short and easy way, by which they can conduct to knowledge, those who will receive them as their guides and, with this bait, they allure the unwary to then own hurt. But We have always been induced to regard these'hoastful promi'sers ('would I could say professors) as closely resembling those deluded mor tals, who promised to' communicate to others the art of making gold, while they themselves were snfi'ermg from the want of nothing so much as that of gold. For our selves, we have always looked upon it as worthy of the liberality of a polite scholar, to whet and incite the-minds of the gifted and studious, by candidly rehearsing the dif ficulties of learning, rather than, by concealing and deny ing the fact, to detain ln the pursuit, the more dull and sluggish, who are, however, themselves, sometimes awak ened from their slumbers, by re?ecting. Upon the difficulty. We should much prefer to follow the example of Virtue, personified by Prodicus as, cited by Xenophon, who ao knowledged the way which she recommended to Hercules, to be a long and arduous one rather than the example of' V ice, personified bv the same writer, who endeavoured to' deceive Hercules by a delicious preamble of anticipated pleasures.
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