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man of fpirit, who was fond of clilldren, took 

 notice one day, at the houfe of a fliop-keeper, in 

 St. Denis-flreet, of a little boy and girl, who had a 

 very ferious air. *' Your children are very grave,'* 

 faid (he to the mother...." Ah ! Madam," replied 

 the fagacious fhop-dame, " it is not for want of 

 " whipping, if ihey are not fo." 



Children rendered miferable in their fports, and 

 in their (Indies, become hypocritical and referved 

 before their fathers and mothers. At length, how- 

 ever, they acquire ftature. One night, the daughter 

 puts on her cloke, under pretence of going to 

 evening-prayers, but it is to give her lover the 

 meeting : by and by, her fhapes divulge the fe- 

 cret ; fhe is driven from her father's houfe, and 

 comes upon the town. Some fine morning, the 

 fon enlifts for a foldier. The father and mother 

 are ready to go didrafled. We fpared nothing, 

 fay they, to procure them the beft of education : 

 they had mafters of every kind : Fools ! you forgot 

 the effential point ; you forgot to teach them to 

 love you. 



They juftify their tyranny by that cruel adage : 

 Children mujl be cor7-e6îed ; human nature is corrupted. 

 They do not perceive that they themfelves, by t4ieir 

 exceffive feverity, fland chargeable with the cor- 



X 4 ruj)tion. 



