§ 88

Tutor.  If a tutor can be got, that, thinking himself in the father's place, charged with his care, and relishing these things, will at the beginning apply himself to put them in practice, he will afterwards find his work very easy: and you will, I guess, have your son in a little time, a greater proficient in both learning and breeding, than perhaps you imagine. But let him by no means beat him, at any time, without your consent and direction.

§ 89

He must be sure also to show him the example of the things he would have the child practise, and carefully preserve him from the influence of ill precedents, especially the most dangerous of all, that of the servants, from whose company he is to be kept, not by prohibitions, for that will but give him an itch, but by other ways I have mentioned.

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