Wyatt, Mrs. Newington-green
Wyatt, Miss. ditto

Wyllie, Joseph, Esq. Hornsey-road

Yates, The Misses, Paradise-row, Lambeth, 6

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Young, The Rev. Dr. Doughty-street, Foundling

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Chap.

1.

On the Education of Infants; Amusements, and

Instruction of young Children

II. Necessity of Parents being an Example to Chil-

dren; Formation of the human Mind com-

mitted to Females; Method of instructing

Children before they can read

III. Impropriety of indulging Children: Absurd Argu-

ments used by Parents for their Indulgence:

Evil Consequences; How to make Children

really happy

IV. Importance of studying the Tempers of Children;

Necessity of Instruction as to Temper; Mis-

takes of Parents in judging of the Capacities

of Children

Some Children early evince Marks of peculiar

Sensibility, Pride, Vanity, Gluttony

V.

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VI. Truth; Parents should set Examples; The Re-

verse too often the Case

VII. Servants; Edgworth; Hamilton; Epictetus

VIII. Necessity of teaching Children the Distinction

between Virtue and Vice; should be encou-

raged to give their own Thoughts; Art of

Thinking too much neglected; Distinction

between Knowledge and Wisdom; Instructors

must think themselves

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IX. Behaviour of Children toward one another; Po-

liteness; Example; Conduct of Parents;

guage of Children; Witty Children, so called;

Anecdote

X.

Children should be taught the Practice of Cha-

rity;
Self-denial a Mean of being generous;

Parents; Anecdotes; Cruelty to Animals;

they afford useful Lessons to Children

XI. Punishments; Plato, St. Pierre, Plutarch; Fast-

ing; Banishment from Parents; Solitary Con-

finement; Tasks; Gentle Methods, with Firm-

ness and Constancy

XII. Parents ; Teachers; Children; Instruction at

Schools, too often counteracted in every Par-

ticular at Home; Parents should co-operate

with Teachers; Anecdotes

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XIII. Reply to a Question as to the Mode of Instruc-

tion pursued by a Teacher of Youth; The

Charge of Education requires the unremitting

Study of Human Nature; Hours of Study, as

Habits and Morals are concerned, not the

most important to Children, but those of

Amusement; The Young should be studied

and watched over at these Times; Instructors

should partake of the Amusements of their

Pupils

XIV. Depraved Children, notwithstanding all the Ef-

forts of Parents and Teachers; Punishment

their own; Example; Hour of Separation an

important one; Happiness of Parents who

have virtuous Children; Of Teachers whose

Pupils are virtuous; Extracts from Letters..

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Chap.

XV. On religious Instruction; Plainness; Teach re-

ligious Duties as a Pleasure; Avoid gloomy

and terrifying Ideas; Examples of Harsh-

ness; Anecdote; Danger of condemning in-

nocent Amusements; Children sometimes

taught Deceit from too great Strictness; Cha-

rity........

XVI. Same subject continued; Perception of Existence

followed by that of the Existence of God;

First Ideas of him; Occasion of Instruction;

Contemplation of the Works of Nature;

Knowledge of external Things leads to a Know-

ledge of our own Minds; Objections to Chris-

tianity; Consult the New Testament; Prayer;

Politics

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ON FEMALE EDUCATION.

I. Spectator; Female Intellect; Arria; Ruth, Pe-

culiar Offices of Females; Mrs. Unwin; Fe-

males form the Happiness of Home; Harmony

arises from occupying our proper Stations• • • •

II. Instruction in domestic Employments essential in

Female Education; its good Effects; Days we

live in, particularly point out this; Daughters

of learned Men; Misery of too refined Ideas;

Females taught to be helpless; Active Employ-

ments necessary

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III Female Schools; Parents should consider their
own Circumstances, else they may make their
Children miserable; Manners; Witty young
Ladies, so called; Modesty the Basis of Fe-
male Manners
Offices of Females; Nature has endowed them
accordingly; Epictetus; Dying Daughter;
Death Beds; Omit no Opportunity of leading
to the Performance even of painful Duties;
Charity; Active Charity; Lessons to be de-
rived from this; Humility; Good Temper
Dress; Slovenliness; Vanity of personal Charms;

Dr. Fordyce

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V.

VI. Monopoly of Female Employments by Men; Fe-

males should teach Females, Dancing, Music,

Drawing; Study the Capacities of Children,

even in teaching Accomplisments; in the Cul-

tivation of Talents, Parents should consider

their Circumstances··

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VII, Amusements; Active ones; Garden; Games of
Exercise; Silk-worms; Dolls; various Ob-

VIII. Females should be instructed to think and judge

for themselves; Elizabeth; Religion; Eliza-

beth Smith; Essays a proper mental Exercise ;

Duties of Females bring Pleasure and Reward

with them; Epictetus; Conclusion

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