To the practice of that supreme virtue all other considerations are sacrificed.

The student's aim is thus kept single.

At every turn of the leaves, paragons of filial piety shame the youthful reader to the pitch of emulation by the epitaphic records of their deeds.

Portraits of the past, possibly colored, present that estimable trait in so exalted a type that to any less filial a people they would simply deter competition.

Yet the boy implicitly believes and no doubt resolves to rival what he reads.