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Verses written on the Close of the Year Cowper 141

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Hymn on laying the Foundation Stone of a
Corn-Mill near Sheffield

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Hymn on laying the Foundation-Stone of the
Sheffield General Infirmary

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Leisure hour Improved.

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On the right Method of Reading.

To read with profit and advantage, you should read with attention and deliberation; and endeavor to improve the truths you read, by remembrance. Without attention in reading, it is impossible to remember; and without remembering, it is time and labor lost, to read or learn.

Bishop Sanderson, having acquired a large fund of useful knowledge, was once asked how he attained it-the enquirer supposing he must have read a great number of books. The Bishop answered, that he had read but very few; but that

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