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to a rigid regimen of this fort, as are moft of thofe 

 of our Phyficians and Apothecaries, all prefent 

 wan pafteboard figures ; and when grown up, pale 

 complexions, and bilious temperaments, like their 

 fathers. 



In order to render children beautiful, you mud 

 render them phyfically, but above all, morally 

 happy. You muft prevent every poffible occafion 

 of vexation to them, not by kindling in their 

 breads dangerous and headftrong pafhons, as in 

 the cafe of fpoiled children, but, on the contrary, 

 by teaching them to curb fuch as they have from 

 Nature, and which fociety is ever exciting into a 

 date of fermentation ; and efpecially, by carefully 

 guarding againfl the communication of every thing 

 unnatural, fuch as ufelefs and iiklbme tafks, emu- 

 lations, rivalihips, and the like But we (hall re- 

 fume this important fubjecl:, at greater length, 

 hereafter. 



The uglinefs of a child is to be imputed, in 

 almbfl: every cafe, to his nurfe, or to his preceptor. 

 I have fometimes obferved, among fo many claries 

 of fociety, more or lefs disfigured by our inftitu- 

 tions, fome families fingularly beautiful. On en- 

 quiring into the caufe of this, I have found that 

 thofe families, though of the commonalty, were 

 happier, in a moral refpect, than thofe of other 



citizens ; 



