 ... and therefore he will be a grocer. An early and accidental association of ideas is formed, by which happiness Is united with some peculiar mode of life, and a choice is made before reason or experience can possibly have suggested a cause for judicious...  The life of a midshipman [signed E.N.]. - Page viby E. N - 1829 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1783 - 396 pages
...certainly too ill founded to direft their parents in fixing their future mode of life. What fuccefs can be expected in a plan of conduct which originates in the whim of an infant ? A parent therefore muft ftudy the difpoiition of his child, and endeavour to conform it to that profeflion... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1785 - 398 pages
...reafon or experience can poflibly have fuggefted a caufe for judicious preference. The choice of boys at an early age is certainly too ill-founded to direct...parents in fixing their future mode of life. What fuccefs can be expected in a plan of conduct which originates in the whim of an infant ? A parent therefore... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 340 pages
...suggested a cause for judicious preference. The choice of boys at an early age is certainly too ill founded to direct their parents in fixing their future mode...conduct which originates in the whim of an infant? A parent therefore must study the disposition of his child, and endeavour to conform it to that profession... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1821 - 322 pages
...suggested a cause for judicious preference. The choice of boys at an early age is certainly too ill founded to direct their parents in fixing their future mode...conduct which originates in the whim of an infant? A parent therefore must study the disposition of his child, and endeavour to couform it to that profession... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 598 pages
...reason or experience can possibly have suggested a cause for judicious preference. The choice of boys at an early age is certainly too ill-founded to direct...conduct which originates in the whim of an infant ? A parent, therefore, must study the disposition of his child, and endeavour to conform it to that... | |
 | Charles Butler (of Philadelphia.) - 1836 - 306 pages
...reason or experience can possibly have suggested a cause for judicious preference. The choice of boys at an early age is certainly too ill-founded to direct...conduct which originates in the whim of an infant 7 A parent, therefore, must study the disposition of his child, and endeavour to conform it to that... | |
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