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minds of the number ſhe is obliged to have. She may have been many years ſtruggling to get eſtabliſhed, and when fortune ſmiles, does not chuſe to loſe the opportunity of providing for old age; therefore continues to enlarge her ſchool, with a view to accumulate a competency for that purpoſe. Domeſtic concerns cannot poſſibly be made a part of their employment, or proper converſations often entered on. Improper books will by ſtealth be introduced, and the bad example of one or two vicious children, in the play-hours, infect a number. Their gratitude and tenderneſs are not called forth in the way they might be by
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