vacant;
its
thoughts
may be
useful,
useless,
or
pernicious
to
happiness.
Direct
them
aright;
the habit
of happy
thought
will
spring up
like any
other
habit."DEONTOLOGY,
ii. 105-6.
(3) The
following
extract
from a
letter of
M. Boyd,
Esq., is
given by
Earl
Stanhope
in his
'Miscellanies':-
"There was
a
circumstance
told me by
the late
Mr.
Christmas,
who for
many years
held an
important
official
situation
in the
Bank of
England.
