Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-06-24

When children, by the united av etf. IT,
good precepts and virtuous examn t4cy'e
initiated in the practice of indattIr -. !,
honea!y, temperance and a esns, ~ u ,'lS
cy of language ard depor,msor S :, aece
ally becomes more and more ps,s, sI'.l.
delIgghtlome to them. This habi, Of "a, a.
and virtue fill gathers i5rcngsh III tbr o',s
| all the fabicquent periods Of lite. s SsoaS
old age. ltinccrporates itfsIs, a.; n
with the very lubaance Of their be;oa were
lfrlzes its roots into the core of tbe;rb. s. auo
A good habit is powerful and !, Nr na''s
eaGly overcome. The language If ,.'s,
flow fpoataaeouay frop the lips Of r nrs'
who has always been accuaomej 70 f r1a
she truth; while the u1,er;ns Of '' ';s
would coG iuch an one violent and n,;a rs
ful effort. Scenes Of caroufal and deba p'I''
cry would always, in the dra ipf,n,
give more pain than pleafare, to any wS'
had been accuisomed to courie of req,
lar and decent living: ana indeed, IT, r..
Objectionable, whether a good habit w.
ever vanquiihed and deR,oyed bysn~
or woman, unleis at the expence Of ana,
full firuggle. If children were bat epid,l
with difcreet and careful hand into Il.
proper way Of living, habit would NIX,
it agreeable, infomuch that daily lI
charge Of the duties of lie would be n
them fourcc of aauiement and gta,ifo,
ton. On she other hand, bad habits 4.
Gill more powerful and inyincible III,
good ones, inafmach as they are the Of.
fpring of a corrupted heart, which has b..
come more and more debated and ytiatei
by an habitual courle Of criminal induI.
gence. Scarcely more Difficult, would i.
be to whisen the Ain of the Ethiopian, OF
to expunge the ipots Of the Leopard, than
for people who have been accrRoned to 4,
evil to learn to do well, The cure Of,
confirmed evil habit, that las sn,wined it.
lelf, as it were, with the very abres Of the
heart, IS a painful Operation, ike cutting
off a limb, or plucking out an eye. Wei
Gus habit refembles the tabled Hydra, on
which, when any cne of its many heads
were Cut off, there infantly fprang another.
Oft have the ions and daughters ofmen
laneated, in BITTERNESS Of heart, their Mi.
cradle bondage to fome peroicious habit
Of, have they relolvsd and fruggled !.
gainA this inve.erate and treacherous FOE;
while at the infant they thought ii ipS
dued and had begun to triumph IN tha'
victory, the monfer role upon them agm
with gigantic frength and craihed then
into the duff, covered with hame and con.
futon.
4 vicious habit is, moreover as eah
ly generated as it is hard to be cured
There is an obliqge procliyity in hrnaa
nature.
{" Broai is the way tina. lcadeh to desf9''
ton"
" Vice is a n.onaer Of 70 frigb;ful uiein,
As, TO be hated, needs bat to be Teen;
Yet ieen too oft, familiar w.,h her taco :,
We fra endure, then pity, then edof@cs'
Multi.udes among the children Of men
have been led on imperccptihly thFo the
various aages of guilt, 10 commit, ~l'l =,
out remorle and even with gTeedlnei''. 'll''s
crimes, which at firG, they have yle"sO
and hunned with horror.
Now, as in all delperate mslao's s., .
sir,=ly brsveutisu is ulually mach eau'
than to cure the diiordcr, whsn invete'as :;
it is TIE bnGncls of education TO guard w"
the utmoa care againe the internal gan >;
creme of bad hab;t. This is a thing
the utmoa importance and yet it j; So. la
fadly and generally negletied,-1an,m,,i
dgcn are often neglected, as 10 'I aao
culture, till they are know" 70 lave . Iv.,
traaed foIne ruinous habit, AMI taSl ~, ~,
alarmed parents endeavour to fesia aa
then; ard when they find their Ien, ,t.y
frances and reprools to be nedetiun a.', WV
are afeonilhed at their children's ool'i"s1
and depravity, which they !all not q. .f he ,bs
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