if particular Addrefs to 7 oung Perfons. '249 faults of the nurfery, which have an unhappy S E R ts. effect in after life. How ufual is it for thofe IX. who have the firft care of infants, to encourage `--""' in them, or rather to teach them, petulance or a kind of frolickfome mifchievioufnefs in fpeaking. The worft words their infant lips can frame themfelves to fpeak, they learn to utter with a menacing air, merely for their amufement, which, not feafonably reftrained, groweth up to an habitual infolence and ill - nature; and this unhappily cleaveth to fome men through the whole courfe of their lives, becaufe they have not wifdom and refolution enough to amend it, forming a very difagre- able chara Ier in fociety. The children, to whom I now addrefs my felf, have got out of the firft bad hands, are capable by the pro- per ufe of their own reafon, and in compliance with better inftruEtion, to correa the faults into which their own weaknefs and unikilfui guides betrayed them : Pray then, judge for your felves, is not opprobrious language very uncomely ? Doth not backbiting the abfent, and infulting them who are prefent, raife an avedion in your minds when you hear it done by others ? You are taught in your riper years, and lince you began to form an idea of de- cency in life, that it is contrary to good man- ners; and the molt polite converfátion you are
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