'of Genius', in the Occasional Paper, And Preface to the Creation
'of Genius', in the Occasional Paper, And Preface to the Creation
Hill Aaron
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Horat. _Weigh well your Strength_, _and never undertake What is above your Power_. And this brings to Mind another very common Occasion of ruiningmany a good _Genius_; I mean, wrong Application. Nothing willsatisfie Parents, but their Children must apply their Minds toone of the learned Professions, when, instead of consulting theReputation or Interest of their Children, by such a preposterousChoice, they turn them out to live in an Element no way suited totheir Nature, and expose them to Conte...mpt and Beggary all theirDays; while at the same Time they spoil an Head, admirably turn'dfor Traffick or Mechanicks. And he is left to bring up the Rearin the learned Profession, or it may be lost in the Crowd, whowould have shined in Trade, and made a prime Figure upon theExchange. Many have by this Means _run their Heads against aPulpit_, (as a Satyrical _Genius_ once expressed it) _who wouldhave made admirable Ploughmen_. There is a different Taste in Men, as to the learned Professionsthemselves, which qualities and disposes them for the one, butwould never make them appear with any Lustre in another.
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