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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 equilibrium in themselves , and pursue a
consistent , uniform course , in precept and example . Excessive indulgence one
day ...
Parents and teachers , before they are prepared to balance these two great
principles in children , must effect an equilibrium in themselves , and pursue a
consistent , uniform course , in precept and example . Excessive indulgence one
day ...
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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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Those parents wear them , who have their children instructed in the light and
fashionable literature of the day , to the neglect of the solid branches , fit for
practical purposes in the every - day concerns of life , when they will be
compelled to ...
Those parents wear them , who have their children instructed in the light and
fashionable literature of the day , to the neglect of the solid branches , fit for
practical purposes in the every - day concerns of life , when they will be
compelled to ...
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| Title | The Moral Probe: Or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things |
| Author | Levi Carroll Judson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | L.C. Judson, 1849 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 19 Nov 2015 |
| Length | 336 pages |
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