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Moral Diſcipline.
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opinions, that we exert our reaſon to examine them—and then, if they are received, they may be called our own.
The firſt things, then, that children ought to be encouraged to obſerve, are a ſtrict adherence to truth; a proper ſubmiſſion to ſuperiors; and condeſcenſion to inferiors. Theſe are the main articles; but there are many others, which compared to them are trivial, and yet are of importance. It is not pleaſing to ſee a child full of bows and grimaces; yet they need not be ſuffered to be rude. They ſhould be employed, and ſuch fables and tales may be culled out for them as would
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