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As for their People of Fashion, they have no opportunity from their method of education, of ever acquiring any: as soon as a Boy is able to walk alone, he is dressed in a fine Coat, Visits with his Father, & is as much a Man as in any Part of his Life: he is indeed attended by a priest, who teaches him what he pleases to learn: if he compasses writing, & reading, he is thought to be sufficiently learned; the rest of his time must be given up to his Exercises, in which indeed they are in general very clever: & in riding particularly, in which they are said to equal, at least, any other Nation
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