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12. to indulge a lazy disposition, which will enervate both body and mind. Let Him not mingle neither in the hurry of the world as soon as He is awake, nor begin His day even by those amusements that may be proper at other hours: let His Morning be sacred to study, and His first and freshest hours be devoted to the improvement of his Head and Heart.

When this is over, Diversions may take their turn during the rest of the day, and they may be taken to the full enjoyment of them without any of that dissipation ^ add in /add which every futile creature who imagines himself running from Pleasure to Pleasure, whilst He is only running from himself, passes an unmeaning life.

Time may be found perhaps, and if it can it should be found, to recall with his Preceptors any parts of History or any precedent lessons of Morality & of Kingly Government in the evenings, and when these Diversions are over; those points which have seemed obscure to Him may be better explained, whatever appeared deficient may be supplied and such conversations without the air of being lessons, may be lessons of the best kind.

Few men indulged themselves more in the pleasures of life than that Great Prince who has been quoted already, Harry the fourth of France, and yet these pleasures never begot in Him either dissipation of mind or any long waste of Time; in the midst of them , in the height of them and in the most eager pursuit of them He was always ready to stop short and to resume the exercise of His Kingly office. This part of His Character is finely exemplified on many occasions in the Memorials of the Duke of Sully; a book the greatest part of which deserves to be read with attention and respect by every Prince, and by a British Prince particularly at this time when the condition of Great-Britain resembles so much that state of Poverty