Excerpt from The Life of Professor Gellert, Vol. 3 of 3: With a Course of Moral Lessons, Delivered by Him in the University of Leipsick; Taken From a French Translation of the Original German Our riches, whether of our own acquiring, or coming to us from other fources, iare gifts of 'provi deuce, as are all our other advantages, and the duty of making a good ufe of them, is one of the molt important and the molt diflicult. Riches, as Ihave already faid, fumiih the means of attaining excel lent ends, and not to employ them in that view, is 'to wrong ourfelves and others, whether we {quan der them, or manage them with a fordid patfmiony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.