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career, it fhould enter into the policy of thofe who endeavouf 
to mould the rifing generation, to point out and encourage 
fuch juvenile amufements as are at once conducive to theif 
health and favourable to their morals. Sports which excite a 
difinterefted and honourable emulation ought to be encouraged 5 
but fuch as participate of ferocity, or emanate from the fpi- 
rit of gambling, fhould be rigidly profcribed. 
Let the martial fpirit which is congenial to the people of 
Ireland, which forms a diftinguifhed ornament of their na- 
tional charaéter, and which may be rendered a fteady fupport 
of their liberties—let this fpirit be cherifhed in the bofoms 
of our youth. Not a fpirit forward in favage quarrels, or dif- 
played in fallies of cruel vivacity, but a fpirit patient of fa- 
tigue, yet arduous in exertion, fubmiflive to difcipline, but alive 
to public good. . 
JuvENILE corps taught to love arms for the fake of their 
country, and trained to ufe them in defence of its laws, will 
exhibit in their exercifes fports worthy the fons of a wife 
and a magnanimous - people. The fentiments and the labours 
of fuch youths will be a leffon to their fathers, as well as 
an example to pofterity. Their ambition will be unfolded in 
competitions of virtue. Their relaxations from ftudy will add 
nerves to courage, fpirit to patriotifm, and will render fubor- 
dination and order national habits. 
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