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96 is obliged to keep her children out of their father's company, that their morals may not be injured by his converation; and beides, the whole arduous tak of education devolves on her, and in uch a cae it is not very practicable. Attention to the education of children mut be irkome, when life appears to have o many charms, and its pleaures are not found fallacious. Many are but jut returned from a boarding-chool, when they are placed at the head of a family, and how fit they are to manage it, I leave the judicious to judge. Can they improve a child's undertanding, when they are carcely out of the tate of childhood themelves? Dignity