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Moral Diſcipline.
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To be able to expreſs the thoughts with facility and propriety, is of great conſequence in life, and if children were never led aſtray in this particular, it would prevent much trouble.

The riot too of the kitchen, or any other place where children are left only with ſervants, makes the decent reſtraint of the parlour irkſome. A girl, who has vivacity, ſoon grows a romp; and if there are male ſervants, they go out a walking with them, and will frequently take little freedoms with Miſs, the bearing with which gives a forwardneſs to her air, and makes her pert. The becoming mo-

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