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prodigies of learning at four, at eight, at twelve, 

 and at fixteen years, who turned out to be either 

 fools, or men of very Httle ability, at twenty- 

 five, that I am inclined to think, that the com- 

 mon mode of education, by which Natuie is 

 not prematurely forced, and which is difcreetly 

 proportioned to the ftrength and capacity of chil- 

 dren, is ftill the bed. 



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