The Juvenile Spectator; Part the Second. Containing Some Account of Old Friends, and an Introduction to a Few Strangers - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1812 Excerpt: ... fection are natural attributes of character. Admitting there are some but lightly impressed with these gracious qualities, I must believe the generality of children are rather thoughtless than erring. I observed in a preceding.page of this chapter, that nature attaches to infancy; characteristics which claim our regard. Your helplessness, my little friends, awakens the tenderness of your guardians, whether parents or appointed protectors: your ignorance excites us to implant the seeds of virtue in your plastic mind: were we to leave you here, nor watch the progress of reason, would ye he amiable? alas! I fear the very contrary would be the case. Then tell me, my dear ingenuous creatures, can it be just in you to feel a "parent's presence a restraint V I make allowance for the timidity of childhood; but if every action of your lives will not bear the eye of a parent., be assured you are in error. I am led to treat this subject seriously, from a more than usual combination of fatts which have fallen under my eyes. First then, though language implies speech in its true acceptation, I am informed there is «ji amazing variation in expression upon some occasions. A young gentleman may appear wellJjred in the drawing room, who in the nursery uses words not only vulgar, but criminal: 1 mean swearing; a vice odious in itself and offensive to God: a young lady boasts she will toll her matna,,( Jenny was Very impertinent, and she is certain her rnama would not allow a. servant to talk to her." The restraint which succeeds to the vaunting and mistaken assumptions of such presuming children, is, unfortunately, too favourable to their errors. The boy is so cautious before his parents, they cannot believe he is ever so criminal as to swear; while the young lady forge...

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