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Some wicked parents teach this vice to their children purposely , as an adjunct of
pilfering . – Some good fathers and mothers teach it through inadvertency . It is
sometimes induced by too severe punishment for faults committed , causing the ...
Some wicked parents teach this vice to their children purposely , as an adjunct of
pilfering . – Some good fathers and mothers teach it through inadvertency . It is
sometimes induced by too severe punishment for faults committed , causing the ...
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Parents and teachers , before they are prepared to balance these two great
principles in children , must effect an ... Thus , a teacher , at school , may destroy
the good work of a correct parent ; and the bad management of a parent , may ...
Parents and teachers , before they are prepared to balance these two great
principles in children , must effect an ... Thus , a teacher , at school , may destroy
the good work of a correct parent ; and the bad management of a parent , may ...
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Latterly , especially among the rich and great , the parents make the matches ,
and marry portions of money , or noble blood , together , instead of their children -
mutual esteem , the foundation of happiness , is a secondary concern .
Latterly , especially among the rich and great , the parents make the matches ,
and marry portions of money , or noble blood , together , instead of their children -
mutual esteem , the foundation of happiness , is a secondary concern .
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The two great professions , Law and Physic , are fearfully overstocked at the
present time , and , melancholy as is the fact , parents are pushing their sons into
this accumulating torrent , covered with floating wrecks , as indiscriminately as
the ...
The two great professions , Law and Physic , are fearfully overstocked at the
present time , and , melancholy as is the fact , parents are pushing their sons into
this accumulating torrent , covered with floating wrecks , as indiscriminately as
the ...
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It is not prudence for children and youth , to disregard the good counsel of their
parents and teachers ; contracting habits , calculated to lead them into crime ,
and destroy their future happiness and usefulness . It is not prudence in parents ,
to ...
It is not prudence for children and youth , to disregard the good counsel of their
parents and teachers ; contracting habits , calculated to lead them into crime ,
and destroy their future happiness and usefulness . It is not prudence in parents ,
to ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or One Hundred and Two Common Sense Essays on the Nature of Men and Things: Interspersed with Scraps of Science and History |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | The author, 1848 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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