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THE MOTHERS OF ENGLAND.
mind, and by the use of those advantages which naturally belong to her situation as a parent; and if, possessing the love and confidence of her children, she can early accustom them to the use of their minds, they will not make the worst citizens of the world, or the less exemplary Christians, for having received their first ideas, and acquired their earliest habits, under the careful training of an humble-minded mother.
