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The Vicar of Wakefield.

a prude, and a new set of ribbands given her younger sister more than natural viva­city. My eldest son George was bred at Oxford, as I intended him for one of the learned professions. My second boy Moses, whom I designed for business, received a sort of a miscellaneous education at home. But it would be needless to attempt de­scribing the particular characters of young people that had seen but very little of the world. In short, a family likeness pre­vailed through all, and properly speaking, they had but one character, that of being all equally generous, credulous, simple, and inoffensive.CHAP.