Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ And Other Circumstances apart, we should no more be Kinder to One Child then to Another, then we are Tender of One Eye more then of the Other; for they are Both our Own Flesh and Bloud alike. Children are Naturally Jealous, and Envious, and the Quenching of their Spirits so Early, Hazzards the Damping of them forever. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ PARTIALITY in a Parent is commonly Unlucky, if not a little Unnatural, for Fondlings are in danger to be made Fools, by the very Error of their Education, and we find it Experimentally that the Children that are least Cocker'd make the Best, and Wisest Men. ’Tis well to be Tender, but to set the Heart too much upon any thing, is what we cannot Justify, either in Religion, or in Reason. I was Saying that Partiality was a little Unnatural too. I do not mean a Partiality of Inclination ”
