SOCIETY.

DESIGNED TO BE USED AS A CLASS BOOK.

BY A MOTHER.

"Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with

her hands."

Proverbs xiv. 1.

"From education, as the leading cause,
"The public character its colour draws;
"Thence the prevailing manners take their cast,
"Extravagant or sober, loose or chaste."--Cowper.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

BRIEF HINTS TO PARENTS, ON THE SUBJECT OF EDU-
CATION, AND HINTS TO YOUNG PEOPLE ON
THE DUTIES OF CIVIL LIFE.

BY JAMES MOTT.

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SECOND EDITION.

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New-York:

PRINTED AND SOLD BY MAHLON DAY,

No. 376, PEARL-STREET.

Educ 8308.27.5

COLLEGE

2,1923 LIBRARY

Graduate School of Education

HARVARD

Southern District of New-York, ss.

B E IT REMEMBERED, that on the seventh day of

February, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, MAHLON DAY, of the said District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"Observations on the importance of Female Education, and Maternal
Instruction, with their Beneficial Influence on Society. By a Mother.

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Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands." Proverbs xiv. 1.

From education, as the leading cause,
"The public character its colour draws;
"Thence the prevailing manners take their cast,
"Extravagant or sober, loose or chaste."-Cowper.

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such copies, during the times therein mentioned.” And also to an
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the encouragement of Learning, by curing the copies of Maps, Charts,
and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the
times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the
arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."
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Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.

PRESERVATION MASTER

AT HARVARD

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ADVERTISEMENT.

BEING early convinced that many advantages arise from the proper cultivation of the youthful mind, and that pious maternal care is the first step towards its accomplishment, I have occasionally, when reading, selected such sentiments upon education, as accorded with my own. And when a leisure moment has offered, I have also penned some of my own reflections on this interesting subject. Having, by these means, made the following collection, I am induced to lay it before the public, with a hope, that it may, in some degree, promote the cause of virtue.

"To those who act from the noble motive of love, "and the animating power of the Christian's hope, the "exercise is the reward, the permission is the privilege, "and the work is the wages."

HICKORY GROVE, 1824.

A. MOTT.