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The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children

By Maria Edgeworth

2020-10-22 18:17:40

“For children,” says Dr. Johnson, “he condescended to lay aside the philosopher, the scholar, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason to its grada ... Read more
“For children,” says Dr. Johnson, “he condescended to lay aside the philosopher, the scholar, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason to its gradation of advance in the morning of life.  Every man acquainted with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration on the writer, who is at one time combating Locke, and at another time making a catechism for children in their fourth year.  A voluntary descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson which humility can teach.” Less

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File size16.29 KB
Print pages280
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1976046766
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Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a sig...

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