EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON. 



which tends to the improvement of both. 

 The character <>f the former receives a cer- 

 tain degree of polish from the softness of 

 a sister; while the timidity and gentleness 

 natural to the female sex, ami which con- 

 stitute their most powerful charm , are tem- 

 pered without being destroyed by inter- 

 course with a brother. 



Thus families afford a school in which 

 children are formed to happiness, and virtue; 

 and the more numerous a family is, the hap- 

 pier will be the members of which it is com- 

 posed. Even old age contributes to the fe- 

 licity of children, by sometimes partaking 

 of their sports ; and uttering lessons, the 

 remembrance of which can never afterward 

 be obliterated from their memory. 



Those who depict old age in gloomy 

 and hateful colours, must only have beheld 

 old isolated egotists; for what being is more 

 respected than the happy and venerated head 

 of an united family, growing grey in the 

 midst of his children, and receiving from 



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