9e ENGLAND'S BEST HOPE. pose that she is now conversing with some individual father ofa family in the higher ranks of life, and presuming that he would permit the freedom, address him, and through him, every man of rank and fortune in the kingdom, in plain and bold language, with something like the follow- ing suggestions ? Let it be your principal concern to train up your son in the fear of God. Make this fear, which is not only "the beginning of wisdom" in point of excel- lence, the same also in priority of time. Let the beginning of wisdom be made the beginning of education. Imbue the youthful mind betimes with correct tastes, sound principles, good affections, and right habits. Consider that the tastes, principles, affections, and habits he now forms, are to be the elements of his fu- ture character ; the fountain of honour- able actions, the germ of whatever may hereafter be pure, virtuous, lovely, and of good report. In his education, never lose sight of this great truth, that irreligion is the
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