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Dedication.
the ſame time feeding his Mind with the moſt ſublime Truths. I ſee before him Tacitus, Plutarch, and Grotius, intermixed with the Tools proper to his Trade. I ſee by his ſide a darling Son, receiving, with too little Fruit alas! the tender Inſtructions of the beſt of Fathers. But tho' the Sallies of a thoughtleſs Youth made me forget for a Time ſuch wiſe Leſſons, I have at laſt the Happineſs of experiencing, that, let a Pupil be ever ſo much inclined to Vice, it is almoſt impoſſible he ſhould not one Day or another be the better for the Education given him by a truly affectionate Maſter.
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