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guek artives—It is my eae he 
has heard you fpeak of, twenty. times, as 
one of the moft worthlefs characters upon 
eatth. “Your child, Eugenio, acd re 
ceived a Teflon SEP Aven ited Refume, if 
you will, your fyftems of morality on the 
morrow, you will in vain attempt to era- 
dicate it. “ You expect company, Mam- 
‘wa, mut I be drefed to- day ?”’ ‘“INo, itis 
only good Mrs. fuch aone.’” Your aad 
ha ae received a leflon of ed lucation, one 
which fhe well underitands, and will long 
remember. You have fent your child to 
a public {chool, ut to fecuré his morals 
again{t the vice which you too juitly ap- 
- prehend abounds ‘ney: you have given 
him 2 private tutor, aman of ftriét mo- 
fals and religion. He may help hirn to 
oes his taiks, but do you imagine it 
will be in his power to form his mind? 
His {choolfellows, the allowance you 
give him, the manners of the age, and of 
the place, will do that, and not the lec- 
tures which he is obliged to hear. If 
thefe are diferent from what you yourfelf 
eADeced yen mut mot be furpriied 
to fee him gradually recede from the prin- 
€i se civil and religious, wich you 
hold , and to break off trom your co snnec- 
tions, and to adopt manners different from 
your own, ‘This is remarkably exem- 
plified amoneft thofe of the Diffenters 
who have rifen te wealth and.confequence. 
I believe it would be difficult to haa an: 
infance of families, who, for three ge- 
nerations, have kept their carriage and 
continued Diffenters. 
Education, it is often obferved, is an 
expenfive tl hing. Itis fo, but the paying 
for leflons is the fmalleft part of the cof, 
f you would go to the price of baying 
your fon a worthy man, you muft be fo 
yourfelf; your friends, your fer vants; 
your company muff be all of that flamp. 
bu “ppote this to be the cafe, much is done; 
but there will remain a eee which 
perhaps you cannot alter, that will @il 
haye their effet... Do youwih him to 
Bo fimplicity? Would you be content 
ay down your coach, to drop yeur 
> Where i is the parent who wold 
do this toeducate his fon? .You carry 
Bitn to the _workfhops of artifans, and 
‘ fhow him different machines and pe bree 
fo awaken his ingenuity, ~The e neceflity 
of getti ing his bread. would awaken at, 
effectually. The fingle ¢ir- 
as 
ets 
hy mere 
cumityice of having a fortune to get, or 
a fortune to fpend, will prob bably operate 
more Grenely upon his mind, not only 
than your precepts, butoevea than your 
exaimpie, You wilh your child to be 
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mode and unaffuming ; ; you are fo, pers 
haps, yourfelf, and you pay ‘iberallyea 
preceptor for giving a hin lefions ‘oF hums 
lity. You'do not perceive, that the*very 
circumfence of having a man of lettees 
and accomplihments retained about ‘his 
pericn, for his fole advantage, tends more 
forcibly to infpire him with an ‘idea of 
felf-confequence, than ail the leffons Re 
can give him to reprefs it. Why do not 
pou look fad, you raftai? {ays the Under- 
taker to his man, in the play of the Fu- 
neral, J gyue you. I husw not bow muco 
money for looking fod, and the more T give 
jl, “the gladder I think jou are, So will 
it be-with the wealthy heir. “Vhe le&ures 
that are given him, on abhdeitention and 
ee only prove to him tipon how 
much higher ground he ftands than thofe 
about him; and the‘ very pains that are 
taken with his moral charaGer will make 
him proud, by fhewing him how much 
he is the ovject of attention. You cannot 
help thefe things. Your fervants, out of 
relpect to you, will bear with his 
lance; your company, out of refpect 
you, ‘will forbear to check his piped: 
ence; and you yourfelf, if he is clever, 
will repeat his obfervations, 
Yin the exploded dogtrine ot f fympathies, 
you are direéted, if you haye cut your 
ANSE, to let that alone, and put your 
plaitter upon the knife. ‘This is very bad 
doétrine, T muft confels, in philofophy, 
but very good in morals. Is a mai lux- 
urious, felf-indulgent ? do not apply your 
phyfic of the foul to Shim, but cure his for- 
tune, Is he haughty? cure his rank, his 
title. Is he vulgar? cure his company, 
Ts he difiident, or mean-{pirited? cure 
his poverty, give him confequence—but 
thefe prefer iptions go far beyond the fa- 
mily, recipes of education, 
Wi aat Hens ig the reiu't? In the firft 
place, that we fhould contraét our ‘ideas 
of ec facation, 
it than it is able to perform. Tt can give 
infiruciion. . “Lhere “will aly ays be an 
effential difference between a 
ing cultivated and uncultivated, ~Edu- 
cation can provide proper inftructors in 
the various aris and fciences, and portion 
out to the bef advantage, thole precious 
hours of youth which never will return, 
Jt can likewile give, in 4 great degreee, 
pertona] habits ; and eyen if thefe fhould 
afterwards give way, under the influence 
of contr ary circumftances, your child: 
will feel the good effects of them, fer the 
later and the lefs will he go into what is’ 
wrong. Letus alfo be affured, that the 
buiine{s of education, properly i io called, 
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is 
and expect no more from_ 
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