The Young Lady's Library of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge: Intended as a Holiday or Birth-Day Present (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Firmly wedded to its base enjoyments, to accept, and much more to profit by, the instruction which the wise would afford them. Whether the child be trained up in the way in which he should go, or in which he should not go, it is certain that, When he is old he will not depart there from. Habit is second nature, and it must be obvious to all, who properly reason upon the subject, that when vice and prejudice have long held possession, the words of wisdom will have little chance of being heard. The most efficient mode, therefore, of producing a universal diffu sion of wisdom, is to sow its seeds in the pure young bosom of the rising generation. They must become the depositories of that wisdom which would be distasteful as well as useless to their fathers, and on them must hereafter devolve the important duty of still more widely diffusing it. It is upon these grounds, and in the humble desire to render some little assistance in preparing the minds of youth for the reception of lighter knowledge in their more mature years, that the author has composed the following pages. De voted to no particular science, and having for its sole object the blending of instruction with amuse.

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