OR, THE MANAGEMENT OF CHILDREN CONSIDERED WITH A VIEW TO THEIR FUTURE CHARACTER. BY MISS APPLETON, AUTHOR OF PRIVATE EDUCATION, THE POOR girl's help, Who shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make to understand SECOND EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER, AVE-MARIA-LANE, Si quid ex Pindari, Flaccive dictis fuerit interjectum, splendet oratio? et sordescit si quid e sacris Psalmis apte fuerit attextum ? An Libri Spiritus cœlestis afflatu proditi sordent nobis præscriptis Homeri, Euripidis, aut Ennii.-ERASMUS. Is a discourse beautified by a quotation from Pindar and Horace ? And shall we think it blemished by a passage from the sacred Psalms aptly interwoven? Do we despise the books which were dictated by the Spirit of God, in comparison of Homer, Euripides, and Ennius ?-ADVENTURER. LONDON: PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT. MADAM, WHEN I first solicited of your Royal Highness the honour of being allowed to dedicate the following work to you, I sought to obtain the sanction of one, also, of whom it may truly be said, that he was the friend of the poor, the liberal patron of genius and merit, and the munificent promoter of every establishment for the improvement of society; whose aim, like that of the Princes and Legislators of antiquity, was to render the education of youth, from infancy upward, a matter of public interest, and a concern, which the highest members of the State might honourably make their own. But since that period, alas! this beloved Prince, the private as well as public benefactor of thousands, is takenfrom us; and a grateful nation can now only cherish in memory those virtues, which it used to contemplate with veneration and love, in the actions and sentiments of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent. To your Royal Highness this calamity is severe, and this loss irreparable; and while so many have reason to deplore it, an humble individual may well be supposed to share in a concern for the loss of him, who generously and nobly gave the support of his Royal name, and prevailed on your Royal Highness to grant that of your gracious patronage, to exertions, which have for their sole end, the improvement of mankind. Under the shelter of that name, so justly dear to your Royal Highness, and to this country, I humbly beg leave to present to your Royal Highness this volume on the management of children. It has been written, not so much with a view to the forming of their characters to greatness, as to goodness; to accomplishment as to virtue; and is, in consequence, fitted equally to the inferior ranks, as to the most exalted personages of the empire. For to excel in goodness should be the aim of all; to be great, can be attempted but by few. May you, MADAM, now again blest in the tenderest of all titles, that of mother, may you, in your Royal Offspring, see real greatness and nobleness of mind |