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A GENTLEMAN AT LARGE.
It is not my intention to record any of the ordinary incidents of a sea voyage: the subject is too hackneyed and too trite; and besides, when the topic is seasickness, it is infectious and the description nauseates.

_Hominem pagina nostra sapit_.

The proper study of mankind is man; human nature is what I delight in contemplating; I love to trace out and delineate the springs of human action.
Mr.Slick and Mr.Hopewell are both studies.

The former is a perfect master of certain chords; He has practised upon them, not for philosophical, but for mercenary purposes.