The Life of the Rev Andrew Bell Author:Robert Southey Subtitle: ... Prebendary of Westminster, and Master of Sherburn Hospital, Durham. Comprising the History of the Rise and Progress of the System of Mutual Tuition General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: J. Murray Subjects: Monitorial system of education Notes: This is a black and white OCR rep... more »rint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. Choice of Professions -- Turns his views towards the Colonies -- Offers from Virginia -- Goes to America -- Honourable Testimonials -- Introductory Letters -- Engages in Mr Braxton's family as private Tutor -- Agency -- Returns to Europe, his Pupils with him -- Sea Journal. When Andrew Bell had gone through the ordinary course of education at St Andrew's with more than ordinary diligence and success, the world was all before him. If he had at any time turned his thoughts toward any profession, he had made choice of none. At an age when most men enter upon the course which they have chosen for themselves, or which circumstances have determined for them, he relied upon his attainments and the consciousness of those convertible talents which are most useful, and least likely to deceive the person who possesses them. In his own country, narrow circumstances were likely to render his advancement difficult and slow; he looked to the colonies, therefore, as a more promising spot, and having received some offers from Virginia which it was thought advisable to accept, embarked for America in the twenty-first year of his age. He went provided with the most ample and honourable testimonials. Those from the rector and professors of the university, stated that his behaviour had all along been blameless and irreproachable; that in all the classes of languages and philosoph...« less