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Rh Think, too, with what unkindness and what injustice they are often treated! How often must the infant heart swell with the quick sense of oppression, when the caprice of an angry moment punishes the fault which has been often passed over, till impunity had appeared a right! And yet restraint is a necessity. Every indulgence from the first exacts some bitter penalty; and we dread and curb the present, for the sake of the retribution which ever lies amid the shadows of the future.

From the beginning of life to its close, we are haunted by the dread of the to come. Now to childhood, taught by no painful experience, how irksome must this yoke appear! They are galled and checked, and must submit; they know not that all our actions, even the most trivial, are followed by those sad and ghastly spectres—their consequences; but they feel their iron oppression. Or, to pass on to youth, with its warm feelings, so sensitive to the return which they will not meet, so sure in a few passing years to be crushed and withered; but at what expense of misery, let each ask of the records from his own remembrance! True, its hopes are sweet, and its spirits buoyant; but how soon are those hopes disappointed, and those spirits broken down for ever!