1 9 o CATHEDRAL and SCHOOL, &c. 
nefs, order, and propriety, generally accompany each other. We 
have linking infiances of this among the lower clafles of the 
people ; and as, among them, we fee what a vaft difference there 
is in domeflic comforts, between thofe who are temperate and 
induflrious, and thofe who are brutifhly abandoned to vice, and 
the nfe of fpirituous liquors, fo in the higher clafles, the man 
who condu&s his private concerns, or the affairs of his family, 
with moft order and decency, always makes the belt figure j 
and, fuppofing other things equal, is moft efteemed. 
Next to cleanlinefs in apartments, care ought to be taken in 
thefe public fchools, that boys fhould not appear in rags ; it is 
apt to give them a carelefs turn of thought, with regard to one 
of the eflential duties of life. 
In refped to their diet ; as they are feldom glutted with 
quantity, the quality becomes the lefs material : and yet, to 
indulge my concern for their welfare, I muff obferve that fari- 
naceous foods, which are effeemed the befl: for them, being 
prepared after the ufual manner of fchools, are not near fo whol- 
fome as common bread, if this is truly good of its kind. 
It muff afford pleafure to benevolent minds, to fee fchools well 
conduced, and young perfons under proper discipline. Why 
this fchool fhould fall off, is a fecret to me : the diftance from 
London is not great ; it enjoys a wholfome air, and plenty of 
provifions, with no inconfiderable revenue of the foundation. I 
who wifh well to my county, as well as my country, fhall 
feel no little indignation if this fchool really fuffers by any mif- 
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