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To those who attend to the difpofition: ana capacities of young people, the observation must frequently occur, that they receive with more ease and pleasure, and are also more durably imprefed with the falutary precepts of morality and religion, when conveyed to them in harmonious numbers, than in fimple profe. Unhappily, however, for the rifing generation, whose virtuous education is of the first importance to the well-being of fociety, few, very few, are the Poems or poetical pieces, which are fo perfectly chafte in expreffion, and fo unexceptionable in fentiment, as to be fit for parents to put into the hands of their tender offspring.