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Excerpt from The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Vol. 2 of 2: With a Memoir
Our request then, in short, is this that you will permit us to adopt one of your children; which of them, we leave to you - that you will make it ours in every sense in which it is possible to make it, that you will transfer to us all the care and all the authority of a parent; that we should provide for it, educate it, and have the entire direction of it as far into life as the parental power itself extends. N ow I know not what to say to induce you to make us such a gift. Perhaps you will entirely deny it; and then we must acquiesce-z fori am sensible it is not a small thing we ask nor can it be easy for a parent to part with a child. This I would say, .from a number, one may more easily be spared. Though it makes a very material difference in happiness whether a person has children or no children, it makes, I apprehend, little or none whether he has three, or four; five, or six because four'or five are enow to exercise all his whole stock of care and affection. We should gain, but you would not lose. I would likewise put you in mind that you would not part with' it to strangers; the connexion between you and it would not be broken off you.
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