. The parent's assistant; or, Stories for children .. . THE CHAPTER I. and Mrs Montague spent the summer of the year1795 at Clifton, with their son Frederick, and their twodaughters, Sophia and Marianne.—They ^had takenmuch care of the education of their children, nor werethey ever tempted, by any motive of personal conve-nience or temporary amusement, to hazard the perma-nent happiness of their pupils. Sensible of the extreme importance of early impres-sions, and of the powerful influence of external circum-stances in forming- the character and the manners, theywere now anxious
. The parent's assistant; or, Stories for children .. . THE CHAPTER I. and Mrs Montague spent the summer of the year1795 at Clifton, with their son Frederick, and their twodaughters, Sophia and Marianne.—They ^had takenmuch care of the education of their children, nor werethey ever tempted, by any motive of personal conve-nience or temporary amusement, to hazard the perma-nent happiness of their pupils. Sensible of the extreme importance of early impres-sions, and of the powerful influence of external circum-stances in forming- the character and the manners, theywere now anxious, that the variety of new ideas, andnew objects, which would strike the minds of their chil-dren, should appear in a just point of view. 4 Let children see, and judge for themselves, is ofteninconsiderately said.—Where children see only a part-,they cannot jxidg-e of the ^hole—and from the superficial •jft* 2^2. THE MIMIC. view which they can have in short visits, and desultory*conversation, they can form only a false estimate of theobjects of human happi
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