the same may be said of other disorders." [Prates "Gleanings in Wales," &c., vol. i.]

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ར་་ཀྱི་

ON EDUCATION.

BY MR. PRATT

I see too plainly custom forms us all :
our thoughts, our morals, our most fix'd belief,
are consequences of our place of birth:
born beyond Ganges, I had been a Pagan;
in France, a Christian; I am here a Saracen.
*T is but instruction all! Our parent's hand
writes on our hearts the first faint characters,
which time retracing deepens into strength
which nothing can efface but death or heaven-Zara.

Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclin'd.-Pope.

Let us imagine, as an elucidation of the above assertions, a child born under every favourable event of temporal prosperity; the father rich, and the mother beautiful; it's cradle is soft and downy, it's pap is made of the whitest bread; and every accommodation that the little stranger demands, is furnished with the most pompous parade, and in the highest perfection. It will not be long before these softnesses will have so great an influence on the body, that the infant must imbibe from these blessings an idea of luxury. This idea will be constantly recurring, and every day's illustration of the points which first produced it, will expand on the imagination, which, like the passions and appetites, is no foe to delicacies. Voluptuous images, thus associated, are easily admitted into the young heart, and every thing which does not correspond with those images, will in proportion, be rejected. Accustomed to light and spacious apartments, he would not venture into Literary Miscellany, No. 19. 1

a dark passage without his nurse or governante. Suppose, on the other hand, a child, the offspring of laborious and indigent parents; it's birth is effected upon the straw, or upon sacking, without curtains; the wind blows hard through the casement; the mother lies down contented with her small-beer caudle, and on the third or fourth day she is up, and dandling the babe upon her knee, or dancing it in her arms. The mother of the other, meanwhile, is gradually recovering from the pains of labour, upon a couch of down; stops up every crevice of air, "lest the breeze of heaven should visit her too roughly." Dares not rise till she is sufficiently weakened by the forms of a fashionable lying-in, as it is, in this case, emphatically called; and, at last, after much effort and more ceremony, she ventures abroad, on some auspicious, sun-shiny day, under the fortification of cloaks, hoods, and handkerchiefs, just to take an airing, with the glasses of her carriage drawn up, and then returns to her chamber, shivering at those gales which fan the face of the poor woman, who inhales them as the most natural restoratives of health and beauty. About the time that the rich child begins to know the delicacy of it's condition, the poor one would find itself promising and hardy, and in some degree inured to the storms of life. Let them be at this period each five years old; the one has acquired a sensation of softness, the other a habit of hardiness. Suppose then, about this time, it were possible for them to change situations. The pennyless lad shall go into the warm villa, the rich stripJing into the cold cottage; what would be the consequence? Exactly the same as if the two mothers and fathers were to exchange. All would be dis