The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

535 LETTERS, TRACTS, t9V,deed complete in himfelf, in the Qonfcious fenfe ofhis own merit :" Totus in feipfo teres atque rotundiis,"as Horatius fays : But yet in this age refpedl: isalfo fomething ; one likes to fee hi4nfelf taken noticeof by thofe in upper life, and to be bowed to and admiredby the vulgar -, for " pulchrum eft digito monftrari^et dicier hie eft," But this empty refpe^l is notthe thing which we chiefly or folely aim at ; alongwith that refpecB: we want to have a little money, becaufe,in our times, it is money chiefly which renderseven philofophers refpe6lable. We come up to theancients in our teaching, and, like them, recommendpoverty :«* Honefta res eft laeta paupertas." We areforced, however, to depart a littlefrom their temper,and to ftudy by what lawful means we may get fome*thing into our pofl^efiion ; and luckily we have foundthat our houfes have ftood us in good fteadjjfor whengentlemencome to enter their children to our college, ..they fee in what fplendour we live, and are afliamedto ftint themfelves to the ufual pitiful honorariums :Some of them, at leaft, have fenfe to obferve, thatfuch lodgings and fuch furniture demand much higherpay than the fmall minunum which we exa£l. Befides,by the largenefs of our houfes, each of us isable to keep a great number of boarders, which wefind to be a very profitable branch of bufmefs.Wehave raifed the board-wages to a reafbnable l:ieightand, befides thefe wages, we expect, and gentlemenwho have children with us are in ufe to fend us veryvaluable compliments. Now, we expe