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THE

PARENTAL AFFECTION.

S the vexations which parents from their children haſten the approach of age, and double the force of years,  the comforts which they reap from them are balm to all other ſorrows, and  the injuries of time. Parents repeat lives in their offsprings; and their concern for them is ſo near, that they feel all  ſufferings, and taſte all their enjoyments as much as if they regarded their own perſons.