The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1828-08-07

From the Memoirs Of .admirai Lord Colling
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LETTER TO HIS pApoHTER.

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LETTER TO HIS DApoHTER.
received your letter, deares, child, and
1@edo mo very happy to fad that you and
dear Mary were well, and taking pains with
your education, The greatest pleasure ]
have in tho midst of my tolls and troubles, is
the expectation which | entertain OF finding
you improved in knowledge and that tho un-
Outstanding which it has pleased God TO give
you both, has been cultivated with care and
aSsduiiy. Your future happiness and rospee-
liability in the world, depend on the diligence
with which you apply yourself to The attain.
nent acknowledge at this period of your life
and hope that no negligence Of your own,
VIII be bar to your progress. When write
to you, my beloved child, so much interested
am /, that You should be servicoable and wor.
thy ofthe friendship and esteem of good and
wise people, that cannot forbear to second
and enforce the instruction which Won receive
by admonition of my own-poinling out to
you tho great advantages that will result from
= temperate and sweetness Of conduct 70 all
people, on all occasions. II doss not follow
shat you are to coincide and agree in opinion
with every i'll judged person but after shew.
ing them your reason for dissenting from their
opinion, your argument and opposition to it
should not be tinctured by any thing offensive.
Never forget for one moment that YOU are
gentlcwoman, and all your words and actions
should mark you gentle. never knew your
mothor--your dear, your good mother say
harsh or hasty thing to any person in my
life. Endeavor to initiate hor. am ou;ck
and husty in my tomper-my sonsibiity IL
touched sometimes by triae, and my express.
Hion OF 1t sudden as gunpowdor but, il is a
misfortune which, not having been sufficient.
~ restrained in my youth, has caused mo
much pain. IL has, indeed, given mo more
trouble to subdue this natural impetuosity.
'han any thing ever undertood. believe
That you ara both mild but ifever YOU feel in
Your little breasts, that you inherit particle
,ofyour fathers iniirmty, restrain il, and quit
tho subject that has caused it, Until yo,rf So
rcnity be recovered. So much for mind and
manners.-Next for accomplishments. No
sportsman ever hits partridge without aim
ing at it and skill is acquired by repeated at-
tsmpts IL is the same thing in every art; un.
iess you aim at perfection, you will never at.
IA 1t But frequent attempts will make il
easy. Never, therefore, do any thing with in.
difference. Whether it be to mend rem, in
your garment, or finish tho most delicate
piece Of art, endeavour 10 do it as perfectly as
Il is possible.
When you write a letter, give il your
greatest care that il may be as perfect in all
its parts ms you can make it, Let the subject
be sepse, Expressed In tho most plain, in,clli.
gibIo, and elegant MANNER that you are capa.
ole Of. II, in familiar mood, you be playful
and jocuiar, guard carefully that your wit be
not so sharp as to give pain to any person;
and before you write sentence examine over
The words Of which il is composed, tha, there
be nothing vulgar nor inelegan, in them. Re.
member, my dear, that your letter is a picture
o. your brains, and those whose brains are a
compound offolly nonsense and impe rtinencc,
arc TO blame TO exhibit them to the contemp,
Of the world, or the pity Of their friend To
write letter with negligence, without proper
stops, and crooked lines and great nourishine
dashes, is inclsgant. IL argues either great
ignorance Of what is proper, or great indiircr-
encc towards the person to whom il is al.
dressed, aud is consequently dsrespectful. II
makes no amends to add an apology for hav.
ing scrawled q sheet Of paper, ofbad pens, for
you should mend themj or Of want ortine, for
nothing is Of moro importance to you, or to
which your time can more properly DO devot.
Cd. think can know the character of Ia.
dy by her handwriting. The dashsrs are all
impudsnt, however they may conceal il from
,bsmaalgss and Others and the scribblsrs