Proverbe Bair 6-16-27

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DEDICATION.

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All the Lovers of those Short, pithy, pointed, popular Maxims, called "Proverbs."

CONCEIVING that many of the rules by which you live are false and dangerous, and that rules of life both safe and true are to be found, I have thought it my duty to illustrate these positions by recording some of the events of my life, and, with much humility, to present the Memoir to you.

I am, &c.

May, 1816.

THE AUTHOR.

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VI.

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- Another Family Picture

Preparation for School

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The History of "Number One".

The Way to treat an humbled Ad-

Another Head of the Hydra.

VII. The History of a Conformist

VIII.—Training for College

IX. — A Morning in College

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X. A mere "honest Man" is not "the

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noblest Work of God"

XI. - The Way to be no Christian

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XV. - An almost incurable Man restored,

without sending him to a Mad-

house.

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