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honour and probity. Their exactness displeases sometimes, at an age when we are not in a condition to judge of the obligations we owe to them; but when years have ripened our understanding and judgment, we then discern that what made us dislike them, is expressly the very thing which should make us esteem and love them.
4. Another eminent writer of antiquity, after hav­ ing noted the di erent characters of the mind in chiidren, draws, in a few words, the image of what he judged to be a per ct scholar, and certainly it is a very amiable one. " For my part," says he, " I like a child who is encouraged by commendation, is animated by a sense of glory, and weeps when he is outd ne. A noble emulation will always keep him in exercise, a reprimand will touch him to the quick, and honour will serve instead of the rod. We need not ar that such a scholar will ever give himself up to sulkiness." How great a value soever this writer puts upon the talents of the mind, he esteems those of the heart r beyond them, and looks upon the other as of no value without them. He declares, he should never have a good opinion of a child who placed his study in occasioning laughter. "!_should rather chopse," added he, "to Lave a boy dull and
heavy, than of a bad disposition."
ROLL .
JoHN.-1 have been very wrong in trying to vex you, cousin; but it was not om ill-wil , neither.­ PETER. I know it : you bore me no ill-will : we are
A QUARREL.-JOHN-PETER.