[Footnote 1: Persius. 'Sat. IV.' sec. 51.]
[Footnote 2: Plutarch in 'Life of Lycurgus'.]
[Footnote 3: Plutarch in 'Life of Phocion'.]
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No. 189. Saturday, October 6, 1711. Addison.
'... Patriæ pietatis imago.'
Virg.
The following Letter being written to my Bookseller, upon a Subject of
which I treated some time since, I shall publish it in this Paper,
together with the Letter that was inclosed in it.
Mr. Buckley,
"Mr. SPECTATOR having of late descanted upon the Cruelty of Parents to
their Children, I have been induced (at the Request of several of Mr.
SPECTATOR'S Admirers) to inclose this Letter, which I assure you is
the Original from a Father to his own Son, notwithstanding the latter
gave but little or no Provocation. It would be wonderfully obliging to
the World, if Mr. SPECTATOR would give his Opinion of it, in some of
his Speculations, and particularly to"
(Mr. Buckley)
Your Humble Servant.