The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781530577118)

Our great lexicographer, in his celebrated eulogium on Dr. Watts, thus speaks in commendation of those productions which he so successfully penned for the pleasure and instruction of the juvenile portion of the community. '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.

Author: Maria Edgeworth
ISBN-10: 153057711X
ISBN-13: 9781530577118
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2016
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.38d