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and representing every superfluous Humour: The Mind is like the Body in this Regard, which cannot fall into a decent and easy Carriage, unless it be fashioned in Time: An untaught Behaviour is like the People that use it, truly rustic, forced, and uncouth, and Art must be applied to make it Natural.

My Lord, the Necessity of Education is plain, but the Methods of it are in many Points ungrateful to Persons is of Your Lordship's Years. Sprightly Youth, and close Application will hardly stand together: Long Attention to the same Thing is tedious to tender

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Minds;