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• the Kindred of Ram: Against Job was his Wrath kindled, because he juftified himself rather than God. Alfo against his three Friends was his Wrath kindled, because they had found no Answer, and yet had condemned Job. • Now Elihu bad waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he. When Elihu faw there was no Anfwer in the Mouth of these three Men, then his Wrath • was kindled. And Elibu the Son of Barachel the Buzite • answered and faid, I am young, and ye are very old, wherefore I was afraid, and durft not fhew you mine Opinion. I faid, Days fhould fpeak, and Mukitude of • Years should teach Wisdom. But there is a Spirit in Man; and the Infpiration of the Almighty giveth them. Understanding. Great Men are not always wife: Nei•ther do the Aged underftand Judgment. Therefore I faid, hearken to me, I also will shew mine Opinion. Behold, I waited for your Words; I gave ear to your Reafons, while you fearched out what to say. Yea, I attended • unto you: And behold there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his Words; left ye fhould fay, we have found out Wifdom: God thrufteth him down, • not Man. Now he hath not directed his Words against me: Neither will I answer him with your Speeches. They were amazed, they answered no more: They left • off fpeaking. When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still and answered no more) I faid, I will answer alfo my Part, I also will shew mine Opinion.

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full of Matter, the Spirit within me conftraineth me. Behold, my Belly is as Wine which hath no Vent, it is ready to burst like new Bottles. I will speak that I may be refreshed: I will open my Lips, and answer. Let me • not, I pray you, accept any Man's Perfon, neither let me give flattering Titles unto Man. For I know not to give flattering Titles; in fo doing my Maker would foon take me away?

Mr. SPECTATOR,

'I Have formerly read with great Satisfaction your

Papers about Idols, and the Behaviour of Gentlemen in thofe Coffee-houfes where Women officiate,

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' and impatiently waited to fee you take India and China
Shops into Confideration: But fince you have pais'd us
'over in filence, either that you have not as yet thought
'us worth your Notice, or that the Grievances we lie un-
⚫ der have escaped your difcerning Eye, I muft make my
Complaints to you, and am encouraged to do it becaufe
'you feem a little at leifure at this prefent Writing. I
'am, dear Sir, one of the top China-Women about
Town; and though I fay it, keep as good Things,
and receive as fine Company as any o' this End of
the Town, let the other be who fhe will: In fhort, I am
in a fair Way to be eafy, were it not for a Club of Fe-
male Rakes, who under pretence of taking their in-
nocent Rambles, forfooth, and diverting the Spleen,
feldom fail to plague me twice or thrice a-day to
cheapen Tea, or buy a Skreen; What else should they.
'mean? as they often repeat it. Thefe Rakes are your
⚫idle Ladies of Fashion, who having nothing to do, em-
ploy themselves in tumbling over my Ware. One of
thefe No-Cuftomers (for by the way they feldom or
never buy any thing) calls for a Set of Tea-Dishes, ano-
⚫ther for a Bafon, a third for my best Green-Tea, and
even to the Punch-Bowl, there's fcarce a piece in my
Shop but must be difplaced, and the whole agreeable
• Architecture difordered; fo that I can compare 'em to
nothing but to the Night-Goblins that take a Pleasure to
over-turn the Difpofition of Plates and Difhes in the
• Kitchens of your housewifely Maids. Well, after all this
Racket and Clutter, this is too dear, that is their Aver
'fion; another thing is charming, but not wanted: The

Ladies are cured of the Spleen, but I am not a Shilling the better for it. Lord! what fignifies one poor Pot of Ter, • confidering the Trouble they put me to? Vapours, Mr. SPECTATOR, are terrible Things; for though I am not poffefs'd by them my felf, I fuffer more from 'em than if I were. Now I muft beg you to admonish all fuch Day-Goblins to make fewer Vifits, or to be less • troublesome when they come to one's Shop; and to convince 'em, that we honeft Shop-keepers have fomething better to do, than to cure Folks of the Vapours gratis.

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A young Son of mine, a School-Boy, is my Secretary fo I hope you'll make Allowances. I am, Sir,

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Thursday, March 27.

Fingit equum tenera docilem cervice Magister,
Ire viam quam monftrat eques

Hor.

Have lately received a third Letter from the Gentleman, who has already given the publick two Effays upon Education. As his Thoughts seem to be very juft and new upon this Subject, I fhall communicate them to the Reader.

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FI had not been hindred by fome extraordinary Bufinefs, I fhould have sent you fooner my further Thoughts upon Education. You may please to remember, that in my laft Letter I endeavoured to give the beft Reasons that could be urged in favour of a private or publick Education. Upon the whole it may perhaps be thought that I feemed rather enclin'd to the latter, C tho' at the fame time I confefs'd that Virtue, which ought to be our firft and principal Care, was more ufually acquired in the former.

I intend therefore, in this Letter, to offer at Methods, by which I conceive Boys might be made to imC prove in Virtue, as they advance in Letters.

I know that in most of our publick Schools Vice is punished and difcouraged whenever it is found out; but this is far from being fufficient, unless our Youth are at the fame time taught to form a right Judgment of Things, and to know what is properly Virtue.

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To this end, whenever they read the Lives and A⚫ctions of fuch Men as have been famous in their Gene<ration, it fhould not be thought enough to make them ‹ barely understand fo many Greek or Latin Sentences, ' but they should be asked their Opinion of fuch an Action or Saying, and obliged to give their Reasons why they take it to be good or bad. By this means they would infenfibly arrive at proper Notions of Courage, Tempe rance, Honour and Justice.

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THERE must be great care taken how the Example of any particular Perfon is recommended to them in grofs; instead of which, they ought to be taught wherein fuch a Man, tho' great in fome refpects, was weak and faulty in others. For want of this Caution, a Boy is often fo dazzled with the Luftre of a great Character, that he confounds its Beauties with its Blemishes, and • looks even upon the faulty Parts of it with an Eye of • Admiration.

I have often wondered how Alexander, who was • naturally of a generous and merciful Difpofition, came to be guilty of fo barbarous an Action as that of dragging the Governour of a Town after his Chariot. I ⚫ know this is generally afcribed to his Paffion for Homer; but I lately met with a Paffage in Plutarch, which, if I am not very much mistaken, ftill gives us a clearer Light into the Motives of this Action. Plutarch tells us, • that Alexander in his Youth had a Master named Lyfimachus, who, tho' he was a Man deftitute of all Politeness, ingratiated himself both with Philip and his Pupil, and became the fecond Man at Court, by calling the King Peleus, the Prince Achilles, and himself Phanix. It is no wonder if Alexander having been thus ufed not only to admire, but to perfonate Achilles, fhould think it glorious to imitate him in this piece of Cruelty and Extravagance.

TO carry this Thought yet further, I fhall fubmit it ⚫to your Confideration, whether instead of a Theme or Copy of Verses, which are the ufual Exercises, as they are called in the School-phrafe, it would not be more " proper that a Boy fhould be tasked once or twice a

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'Week to write down his Opinion of fuch Perfons and • Things as occur to him in his Reading; that he fhould ⚫ defcant upon the Actions of Turnus or Æneas, fhew ' wherein they excelled or were defective, cenfure or approve any particular Action, obferve how it might have ⚫ been carried to a greater Degree of Perfection, and how ⚫ it exceeded or fell fhort of another. He might at the 'fame time mark what was moral in any Speech, and how far it agreed with the Character of the Perfon speaking. This Exercife would foon ftrengthen his Judgment in 'what is blameable or praife-worthy, and give him an early Seafoning of Morality.

NEXT to thofe Examples which may be met with in Books, I very much approve Horace's Way of fetting ⚫ before Youth the infamous or honourable Characters of 'their Contemporaries: that Poet tells us, this was the • Method his Father made ufe of to incline him to any particular Virtue, or give him an Averfion to any particular Vice. If, fays Horace, my Father advised me to live within Bounds, and be contented with the Fortune he fhould leave me; Do not you fee (fays he) the mise⚫rable Condition of Burrus, and the Son of Albus? Let the Misfortunes of thofe two Wretches teach you to avoid Luxury and Extravagance. If he would infpire me with an abhorrence to Debauchery, do not (fays he) make your felf like Sectanus, when you may be happy ⚫ in the Enjoyment of lawful Pleafures. How fcandalous (fays he) is the Character of Trebonius, who was lately caught in Bed with another Man's Wife? To illuftrate the • Force of this Method, the Poet adds, That as a head ftrong Patient, who will not at firft follow his Phyfician's Prefcriptions, grows orderly when he hears that the Neigh⚫bours die all about him; fo Youth is often frighted from Vice, by hearing the ill Report it brings upon others.

'XENOPHO N's Schools of Equity, in his Life of Cyrus the Great, are fufficiently famous: He tells us, that the Perfian Children went to School, and employ'd ⚫ their Time as diligently in learning the Principles of Ju• ftice and Sobriety, as the Youth in other Countries did to acquire the most difficult Arts and Sciences: their Go

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