Excerpt from Leisure Hours; Or Entertaining Dialogues, Between Persons Eminent for Virtue and Magnanimity: The Characters Drawn From Ancient and Modern History, Designed as Lessons of Morality for Youth
Long experience has shown the utility of exhibiting the principles of moral virtue, under the impressive form of example by selecting, from the page of history, the most striking events in the lives of those who have obtained the esteem of their contemporaries, and the veneration of posterity, by their superior merit.
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