Excerpt from Counsels to Young Men on the Formation of Character, And, the Principles Which Leads to Success and Happiness in Life: Being Addresses Principally Delivered at the Anniversary Commencements in Union College The great experience of the venerable author of these addresses as an instructer and guardian of youth, gives a value to his counsels which can be best appreciated by those whose happiness it has been to be trained to knowledge and virtue under his paternal guidance and care. To those, and the number is not small, who have gone forth from the halls of Union to honour their alma mater by their conduct in life, this volume must be peculiarly acceptable. Nor will the discourses it contains be read with scarcely less interest by others; being replete with sound moral and religious instruction, and written with all the originality, earnestness, and eloquence so characteristic of their able and excellent author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.