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Moral Diſcipline.
which is not often the caſe in any conſiderable degree.
The marriage ſtate is too often a ſtate of diſcord; it does not always happen that both parents are rational; and the weakeſt have it in their power to do moſt miſchief.
How then are the tender minds of children to be cultivated?— Mamma is only anxious that they ſhould love her beſt, and perhaps takes pains to ſow thoſe ſeeds, which have produced ſuch luxuriant weeds in her own mind. Or, what ſtill more frequently occurs, the children are at firſt made play-things of, andwhen
