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 good qualities before them, and deprive the mind of that beautiful implicity, which can never be too much cherihed.

Indeed it is of the utmot conequence to make a child artles, or to peak with more propriety, not to teach them to be otherwie; and in order to do o we mut keep them out of the way of bad examples. Art is almot always practied by ervants, and the ame methods which children oberve them to ue, to hield themelves from blame, they will adopt—and cunning is o nearly allied to falehood, that it will infallibly lead to it— Rh