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Pleasure and improvement blended, or, An attempt to shew that knowledge can only be attained by early inquiry and judicious explaination : the whole elucidated by pleasing conversations and agreeable tales
Pleasure and improvement blended, or, An attempt to shew that knowledge can only be attained by early inquiry and judicious explaination : the whole elucidated by pleasing conversations and agreeable tales
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Pleasure and improvement blended, or, An attempt to shew that knowledge can only be attained by early inquiry and judicious explaination : the whole elucidated by pleasing conversations and agreeable tales

Date1810
Alternate Title
  • Attempt to shew that knowledge can only be attained by early inquiry and judicious explanation
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Notes
By Miss Sandham.
Dialogues on plants and animals are interspersed with two moral tales and conversations on "what is a gentleman?" and "on friendship".
The engraved frontispiece is dated Aug. 1, 1810.
The story "Good brought out of evil" tells how a little boy was stolen by thieves who hoped to train him as an accomplice, and how he escaped from them. In this story, it is mentioned that children are stolen from their parents by chimney sweepers and that a society has been formed to inspect the conduct of masters towards chimney sweep boys (p. 25-26).
Contents note: On plants -- Good brought out of evil -- What is a gentleman? -- On animals -- On frienship -- The young miser -- On animals continued.
DimensionsCover size: 18 cm x 11 cm (7 1/16 in. x 4 5/16 in.)
Extent
  • vi, 122, [1] pages, [1] leaf of plates (frontispiece) : 1 illustrations
Language
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131048602296D