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death_n	father_n	great_a	son_n	7,925	5	4.8539	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52536	A discourse upon the nature and faculties of man in several essayes with some considerations of humane life / by Tim. Nourse ...	Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699.	1686 (1686)	Wing N1418; ESTC R16136	165,226	400

said to be nourish'd by a Bitch the other by a Woolf that is as I suppose amongst Shepherds and Savage people whom their natures and dispositions little differed from the wild Beasts amongst which they liv'd or perhaps such Fables were invented only to make their Actions to seem more extraordinary and prodigious Whatsoever there were in such reports certain 't is that great regard is to be had both to the temper of the Mind as well as to the state and condition of the body of her who gives the Breast let her be of a cheerful humour and temperate as well as healthful and abounding in Milk but this more properly concerns the Mother let us look a little to that which concerns the Father and that is the Breeding and Education of his Children which is a great and weighty duty Parents for the future good of their Children would do well to place them forth as early as may be in a wholsom piercing Air and by this means inure them to hardship by times The old Germans were wont to plunge their Children into the Rhyne as soon as they were born to bring their bodies to a stronger temper Ladies we see of the most delicate Constitutions by using to have their Breasts and Arms naked from their childhood receive no injury by the weather be it never so cold whereas the strongest man should he attempt to do the like might be in danger of his life Let a Child therefore be accustom'd to course Dyet to thin Cloathing hard Lodging and to much Toyl and when he arrives to Manhood his Constitution will be much more vigorous he will be more hardy to undertake and more strong to conquer any difficulty He will enjoy a more prosperous health of body and by consequence will be able to pursue any work wherein the Brains and Thoughts are engag'd with great Alacrity Constancy and Courage and indeed since the Occurrances of life do still cast a man upon the more painful side 't is best to make hardship to grow up with our Natures by accustoming our selves to it when our blood is Youthful when we are free from distempers and at such a season also when the least impressions grow into a habit and many times become indeleble There is one great fault which Parents generally commit in the Education of their Children viz. in labouring to bring them to habits of good Husbandry and Frugality by cutting them short in their allowance By this means many a young Gentleman is taught to keep mean Company and gets such habits of shifting and shirking as shall for ever render him contemptible others there are of this Tribe who spend without measure upon the prospect of their Fathers death so that when they come to their Estates all they have will be too little to satisfie their Creditors for such are ever sure to lend the young Squire freely and make him indebted to them for twice as much as he borrow'd upon pretence forsooth that the old Gentleman may out-live the Son and then all is desperate 'T is generally seen that none are so extravagant and profuse when they come to their Estates as those who in their Fathers life-time were kept shortest of Money The more the Fire is pent in the more violent will be the Eruption but in all cases 't is certain that too great a restraint on Youth does make them wish their Parents death and does engender those ill humours in a Son as end commonly in Defiance and Rebellion Upon the walls in the Court of the Jesuits Colledge at Lyons where they have a great School there are many ingenious Emblems painted in Fresco of which this I remember to be one an Eagle flying towards the Sun with her Young ones in her Talons casting those away as spurious which would not endure the Light with this Motto à teneris luce imbuit 'T is easy to observe but sad to consider what little care many Parents take in this particular so they can but beget and keep their Children 't is sufficient They are many times very industrious in improving their Estates and in cultivating their Lands but for their Children they let them converse with the Poor ones of the Village or with Plow-men or Servants of their own Family and by this means they get many times such habits both of clownish speech and carriage as also of rudeness and of an abject Mind as no future Education though it were bestow'd upon them will ever be able to wear away We see a straight Tree when it is young and tender will easily be bow'd aside and grow so too beyond recovery if it be let alone a little as also another which is young and crooked may by little and little be in a great measure rectified and by cutting away the superfluities may become fruitful As for those who are to follow the Plow or any Mechanick and Laborious course of life and such there must be as their Means and Opportunities are small so neither do their Circumstances require any thing more then to be instructed in the Principles of Religion and of Morality and in the Duties of Obedience and to be able to Write and Read for there is nothing more ridiculous then to have a Bumkin or Shopkeeper pretend to State-matters or Divinity Nor indeed is there any thing so dangerous to Church or State as these half headed and conceited Fellows who are generally most Impudent Ignorant and Factious The Education therefore which I here discourse of is such as I would have in those who would be accounted Gentlemen as having some Priviledges both of Birth and Fortune above the Common sort of Men which Education of theirs may be reduc'd to these three general heads viz. Erudition Exercise and Travel Of Erudition CHAP. III. ERudition extends it self not only to Literature but to Precepts of Life the former serves for the information of the Understanding the later for the direction of the Will and for regulating the Passions to both which things all civiliz'd Nations have ever had a special regard The Chineses boast themselves to be the only civiliz'd People upon the Earth looking upon all other Nations as Barbarians which considering the little or no advantage they have had by Commerce with other parts of the World may be in a great measure admitted In this particular they are a reproach to the Europeans for there is no Art nor Industry omitted by them which may serve for the Information and Education of Youth All Publick places whether Civil or Military are bestow'd on such Persons only as have undergone the Test and Appprobation of their Doctors in which charge they are not perfunctory and superficial but severe They have no Offices or Titles of Honour but what Learning does procure them and such Reverence and Veneration have they for their Preceptors that in case a Schollar be advanc'd to a higher place of Trust and Dignity then his Master yet he never sits with him cheek