leucus immediately gave orders for solemnizing the marriage; and the young queen, to shew her obedience, very graciously exchanged the father for the son. STEELE. N° 186. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1710. As it has been the endeavour of these our labours to extirpate, from among the polite or busy part of mankind, all such as are either prejudicial or insignificant to society; so it ought to be no less our study to supply the havoc we have made, by an exact care of the growing generation. But when we begin to inculcate proper precepts to the children of this island, except we could take them out of their nurses arms, we see an amendment is almost impracticable; for we find the whole species of our youth, and grown men, is incorrigibly prepossessed with vanity, pride, or ambition, according to the respective pursuits to which they turn themselves; by which means the world is infatuated with the love of appearances instead of things. Thus the vain man takes praise for honour; the proud man ceremony for respect; the ambitious man, power for glory. These three cha |