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own • fo that thefe fimple, but more exalted ideas of matrimonial princi- 

 union, are thus propagated and perpetuated in the progeny of a 



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difcretion and maturity, the fond parents take peculiar care of their 

 education : they frequently check the wild flights of their unruly 



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pafTions, and infcill order, moderate induftry, and the principles 

 of benevolence and gratitude into their tender minds. I have {qgr 



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mothers punifliin^ obflinacy and difobedience, and though ex- 

 tremely fond of their children, they neverthelefs are fenlible 

 enough thus far to do violence to their own feelings, that their 

 children may not acquire a habit of ingratitude, obflinacy, and 

 immorality; I have likewife heard them expoflulating with 



their unruly little ones, and expreffing their difpleafure at their 



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condu(5l ', all which proves that they have ideas of moral rectitude, 



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of order and filial fubordination, and of the neceffity of infilling 

 thefe principles early into the minds of their children. Nor is 

 this careful education without the good effecfls, which ought to be 

 the confequence of it : for we faw many a family, where every in- 

 dividual belonging to it, gave ilrong marks of an attachment to 

 the refl of the family, and evident proofs of thofe ties of benevo- 

 lence which united them all. The younger part of them fhewed 



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reverence and refped to the older individuals, and at the leaft and 



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mofl dillant danger were alarmed and anxious for the welfare and 



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