it is, in fact, towards those taxes, of which so many thousands are gaping to get at a share.  And, if we could, through so thick a veil, come at the naked fact, we should find the subscription, now going on in Dublin for the purpose of erecting a monument in that city, to commemorate the good recently done, or alleged to be done, to Ireland, by the DUKE of WELLINGTON; we should find, that the subscribers have the taxes in view; and that, if the monument shall actually be raised, it ought to have selfishness, and not gratitude, engraven on its base.  Nearly the same may be said with regard to all the praises that we hear bestowed on men in power.  The friendship which is felt towards me is pure and disinterested:  it is not founded in any hope that the parties can have, that they can ever profit from professing it:  it is founded on the gratitude which they entertain for the good that I have done them; and, of this sort of friendship, and friendship so cordial, no man ever possessed a larger portion.

6.  Now, mere genius will not acquire this for a man.  There must be something more than genius:  there must be industry:  there must be perseverance:  there must be, before the eyes of the nation, proofs of extraordinary exertion:  people must say to themselves, ’What wise conduct must there have been in the employing of the time of this man!  How sober, how sparing in diet, how early a riser, how little expensive he must have been!’ These are the things, and not genius, which have caused my labours to be so incessant and so successful:  and, though I do not affect to believe, that every young man, who shall read this work, will become able to perform labours of equal magnitude and importance, I do pretend, that every young man, who will attend to my advice, will become able to perform a great deal more than men generally do perform, whatever may be his situation in life; and, that he will, too, perform it with greater ease and satisfaction than he would, without the advice, be able to perform the smaller portion.

7.  I have had, from thousands of young men, and men advanced in years also, letters of thanks for the great benefit which they have derived from my labours.  Some have thanked me for my Grammars, some for my Cottage Economy, others for the Woodlands and the Gardener; and, in short, for every one of my works have I received letters of thanks from numerous persons, of whom I had never heard before.  In many cases I have been told, that, if the parties had had my books to read some years before, the gain to them, whether in time or in other things, would have been very great.  Many, and a great many, have told me, that, though long at school, and though their parents had paid for their being taught English Grammar, or French, they had, in a short time, learned more from my books, on those subjects, than they had learned, in years, from their teachers.  How many