RK Porter 1798 Greamess and 1 power cannot always scaure its possessors from the black Wind, or pitiless Storm. TO AMUSE THE MIND, AND IMPROVE THE "Let us consider that youth is of no long duration; and that LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, and BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; AND J, HARRIS, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1812. 743 PREFACE. H478 ins IN writing the following sheets, my design has been to blend instruction with amusement; to give "Virtue its own feature, Vice its own image; " and to shew the necessity of all evil propensities being crushed in infancy; and that children of good natural abilities and dispositions may be lead to tread the paths of truth and rectitude, as easily as they may be suffered to imbibe erroneous opinions; which, like the weeds in the Scripture, that choaked the corn, destroy the virtuous principles implanted in them by their Creator. To inculcate a love of study, industy, charity, duty to parents, &c. has been my wish; and equally to discourage idleness, dissatisfaction with our 959 CHAP. VI. Punishment frequently salutary, Respect due to aged Servants. Account of the Monument. Of the Fire of London. Of the first Building of London Bridge. Anecdote of Edmund A Visit to Lambeth Palace. When built. Account of the Lollard's Tower. Distress of Mary, Wife of James the Second. Number of Vo- 93 |