Caroline Pratt 1806 IN PROSE FOR CHIL DRE N. BY THE AUTHOR OF LESSONS FOR CHILDREN. THE SIXTH EDITION: LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, NO, 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. M DCC XCIV. AMONG 'MONG the number of Books compofed for the ufe of Children; though there are many, and fome on a very rational plan, which unfold the fyftem, and give a fummary of the doctrines of religion; it would be difficult to find one calculated to affift them in the devotional part of it, except indeed Dr. Watts's Hymns for Children, Thefe are in pretty general use, and the author is defervedly honoured for the condefcenfion of his Mufe, which was very able to take a loftier flight. But it may well be doubted, whether poetry ought to be lowered to the capacities of children, or whether they fould A 2 |