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How To Become Eminent

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
June
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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For rising to eminence in nny inlellec tual pursuit, there is not a rule of mor essential importance ihan thatofdoing one thing at a tirne; avoiding distractino and d&sultory occupatidns; and keeping a leading object habitually befure the nlind, asönë in whicO it can at a!l times find an intere.sting resource wlien necessarv avocations nllo'w tlio tlioughts to recur to ii. A. subjct wliidi is cultivated in this manner, not by regular periods ofslud7 ly, bul as mi habitual object of' tliouglit risos up and expanda befare thfi mind in a manner whicli is ahogeiher astonish ing. Ifalongwith this habit there be cuitivatej tliè prncticé'of constantly writing such views ns arise. vc perkaps describe lliat state of monta! discipline by whicli t;dents of a very modéralo order may be applied in a conspicuous & use fu I triá'nhe'i tb ftiiy subject to which thcy are levoted. Sucli writing neod not bë madö ti t first ivith ariy greafatienlion to method, but merely put aside for future consideralion; and id this mnnner the different icpartm entsofa subject wili develop and irrange themselves as they advance in a nanncr equally ploasing and wonderful. - Abercrombie. CC?" Il is Siiia Ihat no Whig paper in Northern Ohiö has exprrssed a wwtl fbr tlie nomination of Gen. Toyloi'j except the Cleveland ITerald. nnci that backed out immediately after: whilë a mültitude of tliem have expressed a slrong disapproval. [nour State, the case is reverted. Every Whig paper Ws liave seen, except the State Jourrinl, lias expressed ;i desire for his nomindtiorij or intimated a willingness to support himin certain contingencies.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News