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of duty are made on the mind, ornamental education commences; and it ever after
takes the lead: thus, what should be only the embellishment, becomes the main
business, of life. There is no opportunity of attaining a knowledge of family
management at school; and during vacations, all subjects that might interfere
with amusement are avoided.
When a girl, whose family moves in the higher ranks of life, returns to reside
at her father's house after completing her education, her introduction to the
gay world, and a continued course of pleasures, persuade her at once that she
was born to be the ornament of fashionable circles, rather than to stoop (as she
would conceive it) to undertake the arrangement of a family, though by that
means she might in various ways augment the satisfaction, and comfort of her
parents. On the other hand, persons of an inferior sphere, and especially in the
lower order of middling life, are almost always anxious to give their children
such advantages of education as themselves did not possess. Whether their
indulgence be productive of the happiness so kindly aimed at, must be judged by
the effects, which are not very favourable, if what has been taught has not
produced humility in herself, and increased gratitude and respect to the authors
of her being. Were a young woman brought to relish home society, and the calm
delights of agreeable occupation, before she entered into the delusive scenes of
pleasure, presented by the theatre and other dissipations, it is-probable she
would soon make a comparison much In favour of the former, especially if
restraint did not give to the latter additional relish.
If we carry on our observations to married life, we shall
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