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Matrimony.
is obliged to keep her children out of their father's company, that their morals may not be injured by his converſation; and beſides, the whole arduous taſk of education devolves on her, and in ſuch a caſe it is not very practicable. Attention to the education of children muſt be irkſome, when life appears to have ſo many charms, and its pleaſures are not found fallacious. Many are but juſt returned from a boarding-ſchool, 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 underſtanding, when they are ſcarcely out of the ſtate of childhood themſelves?
Dignity
