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ACADEMIC PURSUITS.

" There's honour for yon !"— Shakspeark.

Like you such grinning honour? You willprobably answer, No. Why, then, before you en-gage in the widely-different, but no less hazardouswarfare of words and arguments, propositions anddisquisitions, reply and rejoinder, with the long-train of important etceteras, do, my young andsanguine friend, take a peep into a pericranium—examine the filmy texture of the brain, andthe cobweb character of those fibres which com-pose its substance; from thence descend to theregion of the stomach, and view the connexionof its digestive power, which, as well as thebrain, depend upon the quiet operation ofthought,—which the hurry of passion, the ardourof pursuit, or the no less dangerous tendency of