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Moral Diſcipline.
good qualities before them, and deprive the mind of that beautiful ſimplicity, which can never be too much cheriſhed.
Indeed it is of the utmoſt conſequence to make a child artleſs, or to ſpeak with more propriety, not to teach them to be otherwiſe; and in order to do ſo we muſt keep them out of the way of bad examples. Art is almoſt always practiſed by ſervants, and the ſame methods which children obſerve them to uſe, to ſhield themſelves from blame, they will adopt—and cunning is ſo nearly allied to falſehood, that it will infallibly lead to it—
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