Fenelon's Treatise on the Education of Daughters Translated from the French, and Adapted to English Readers

The Romans of whom we have been speaking, and before them the Greeks--in the good times of their republics, brought up their children in the contempt of luxury and effeminacy: t...

Let us now discuss, in detail, those particulars of which it is the duty of a woman to be well informed. What are her employments? She is charged with the education of her child...

There are two circumstances which spoil every thing; namely, teaching them at first to read in a foreign tongue[3]--which takes away all pleasure in reading; and making them rea...

During this period, when applause is perpetually bestowed, and contradiction seldom obtruded, children indulge chimerical hopes, which, alas! are the source of endless disappoin...

We should strive to give them a taste for scriptural history rather than for any other; not in _telling_ them that it is finer, which they will probably not believe--but in caus...

8. SERMONS: by _Dr. S. Clarke_; _Abp. Secker_, _Sherlock_, _Jortin_, _Balguy_, _Porteus_, (Bishop of London), _Blair_, and _Carr_.[9] These among many other excellent ones, whos...

"Chaste and modest writings never alter the honour of any gentlewoman. For as the remembrance of infamous persons is much detested and hated by the _Muses_--so is the glory and...

[16] An admirable sermon, "on the antiquity, use, and excellence, of church music," by Bishop Horne, may be seen among the 16 sermons separately published by that amiable prelat...