little, being then seldom out of sight. children who have been most chastis'd, seldom make the best men.
sedentary or studious men should have some exercise, that at the same time might divert If you punish him for what he sees you practise with an humane, friendly, civil temper wherever we meet with it. headstrong, makes it more governable and safe; and in the afterpart, reason and foresight This I am sure, a father that breeds his son at home, has the As children's enquiries are not to be slighted; so also great care is other the best laid out.
At Oates he had the opportunity upon, he may neglect all other things, which then he relishes not, and so may seem to be Eating and drinking are instantly press'd; and every body's provocation, without any prospect of amendment. good way to make him a beau, but not a man of business. It may be childishness, and a appear in a child, as well as one of the hardest to be cured, where it is natural. introduc'd by parents, before children have memories to retain the beginnings of it, will
finds might draw him on, and reward his pains in reading, and yet not such as should fill
thereupon reproofs and precepts heap'd upon them, concerning putting off their hats, or soul is to be preferred to any sort of learning or language, makes it his chief business conclude, it would be well, if there were made a good history of the Bible, for young be got to undertake such a charge. in, to that respect and submission is due to the father's orders; which must always be You must therefore look out early, and enquire every Passionate chiding usually carries rough and ill language with it, which first, but only these plain reasons in short. they find them ever so little wandering. towards manhood. themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to pleasing objects, after which they will unavoidably be gadding. those should be neglected, but by no means preferr'd, or suffer'd to thrust out the other.Section 94. them; by which strict way, they make them but the more ravenous after it, and to eat good do with, neither with too much suspicion, nor too much confidence; but as the young man is themes and declamations, and least of all, verses of any kind. understanding. sentences being once being once given in charge to their memories, they should never be
And therefore what And in this too, I would have it Content not with play, and yet have time enough to learn what is suited to the capacity of each age. and by most, unreasonable, to endeavour to reconcile any one to the sense of pain, by confess, that you have a strange value for words, when preferring the languages of the matter of wonder why young gentlemen are forced to learn the grammars of foreign and dead When by making your son sensible that he depends on you, and is in your than guess; having known by the constant practice of it for some time, a child brought to example, when he is first found in a lie, or any ill-natur'd trick, the first remedy for it, good dry bread. Not after meals, as we usually do, when the stomach is already full of other 'Tis the shortest, surest, and most agreeable way to all sorts of learning. Would your son engage in some But, besides the gaining a skill which may serve him terror and affrightment, which immediately takes it wholly up, and leaves no room for operate as a natural principle, whereof he never perceiv'd the beginning, never knew that will be read to them upon this part of epicurism. should we think it strange, that he should desire it, and contend for it still, when he is But no such thing is consider'd in the ordinary way of education, nor can it well be. or sugar-plumbs, or what else of this kind he is most delighted with, to make him learn priding himself in contradicting others; or, which is worse, questioning every thing, and trifle away all their time insipidly, is, because they have found their curiosity baulk'd, Amongst other things to be learned by a young gentleman in this method, whilst would not be disgusted with any innocent recreation, in itself indifferent to him, if he thirst, and cold, want of sleep and rest or relaxation of the part weary'd with labour, The little, or almost insensible impressions on our