ON EDUCATION; IN TWO PARTS: THE FIRST ON GENERAL EDUCATION, AND THE BY AGNES SOPHIA SEMPLE, Daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Henry Hunter. He that undertakes the education of a child, undertakes DAY. LONDON: Printed by T. Bayley, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate; MDCCCXII. PREFACE. 4B675 S5A3 ST. PIERRE intended to write a general History of Nature, but he found that of a single strawberry plant far to transcend his highest powers. Without proposing to form a System of Education, the daily observation of a little girl of three years old, led me to think on that subject, which, while there are infinite varieties in the human mind, can never be exhausted. Like St. Pierre I was overwhelmed with my study, and was compelled to relinquish M575573 |