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BOARDING-SCHOOLS.
If a mother has leiſure and good ſenſe, and more than one daughter, I think ſhe could beſt educate them herſelf; but as many family reaſons render it neceſſary ſometimes to ſend them from home, boarding-ſchools are fixed on. I muſt own it is my opinion, that the manners are too much attended to in all ſchools; and in the nature of things it cannot be otherwiſe, as the reputation of the houſe depends upon it, and moſt people can judge of them. The temper is neglected, the ſame leſſons are taught to all, and ſome get a ſmatter-
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