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CG-NL.771.042
12 Jul 1771:22,23 (8/400)
An Address to the Rising Generation. . . [3 paragraphs on
the folly of youthful dissipation]
For your direction: in leisure hours, instead of going to
the theatres, gaming houses, brothels, and the like, which
can never be of service to you, but greatly to the contrary,
as dear-bought experience has too late convinced many-a-one;
pursue useful and ornamental knowledge, study history,
natural philosophy, music, drawing, painting, &c. and seek
the improving conversation of the sensible and virtuous
fair, together with that of a few select friends of your own
sex, esteemed for their piety and discretion, and every
night ask yourself the question, as in the presence of the
great creator, Have I lived this day as I would do my last?
[signed] Dr. Watts.
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