Youth's Miscellany, or a Father's Gift to His Children: Consisting of Original Essays, Moral and Literary; Tales, Fables, Reflections, &C., Intended ... to Improve the Taste, and to Humanize - Softcover

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Nothing is more difficult in the Chapter Of education, than to know how far ad vice ought to be carried, and where it Ought to (top. The ingenuous minds Of youth are fhocked at diffuafives from grofs turpitude: there are fome vices too bafe to be named. A natural fenfe Of propriety is the bett preventative Of fuch defire is only inflamed by impolitic coer cion, and follies or crimes have often been confirmed, by injudicious attempts to guard againft them.

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