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The Plan of Education for a Prince taken from Mr. Thomas Eloge underline of the Late Dauphin /underline

The most severe trials a Prince has to combat are those occasioned by his rank; addition the most efficacious means of /addition to destroying his dangerous charm deletion it /deletion would be addition deletion rightly /deletion /addition deletion necessary the giving him the invincible education of events and of necessity /deletion, the making him acquainted with his own weakness, deletion to fire him with /deletion his own ignorance; and deletion the breeding him up /deletion addition the keeping him perhaps /addition distant from Court, even to hide his rank from him, deletion and only make him acquainted with it when possessing virtue enough to be disturbed addition alarmed /addition at it /deletion ^ addition till he shall possess virtue enough to be frightened at the /addition being acquainted with it; but this may appear too chimerical

and custom, that most powerful of Tyrants, will never permit this to be adopted.

Religion should be deletion the /deletion instilled from the most tender Youth as that teaches that deletion God /deletion addition this All Wise Creator /addition is not a respector of persons and that in his Eyes deletion few /deletion addition all /addition Men are judged by their conduct not their birth.

Languages seems next to deserve attention as that opens the road to every branch of knowledge; History should be early addition begun with. [[1]] Every polite Art ought to be in some degree set before him as he must be the protector of them.

The study of the principles of Government require a vigourous and depth ^ addition of mind unclear and habit /addition of reflection and of deletion governing /deletion addition commanding /addition one’s thoughts; to bring the mind into that order the study of Philosophy is highly necessary, deletion a knowledge of /deletion addition of which branches it is best to begin with /addition the rules of Logick by which he will learn to connect his ideas; deletion and /deletion addition then /addition he should examine the most celebrated Modern Phylosophers, Bacon, Boyle, Newton, Locke’s Human Understanding,