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Title: The Boarding School
Familiar conversations between a governess and her pupils.
Written for the amusement and instruction of young ladies.

Author: Unknown

Release Date: January 14, 2009 [EBook #27804]

Language: English

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THE
BOARDING SCHOOL;

OR

FAMILIAR CONVERSATIONS
BETWEEN A
_GOVERNESS AND HER PUPILS._

WRITTEN FOR THE
AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION
OF
YOUNG LADIES.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER,
AVE-MARIA LANE.
1823.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY COX AND BAYLIS, GREAT QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS.

PREFACE.

Those persons whose time is devoted to the instruction of youth, have
not only abundant opportunities of ascertaining the capacities of their
pupils, but of observing their various dispositions, and of noticing the
effects which have been produced on them by previous habit and example.
It seldom happens that amiability of temper, respectful behaviour to
superiors, or kindness to inferiors, distinguish children who in their
infancy have been left to the care of menials, or who have been
suffered, by the blind indulgence of parents, to gratify their forward
inclinations; and it as rarely occurs that those who have had the
benefit of good example and parental admonition in the "bud of life,"
display much propensity to vice as they grow up, unless their morals
become contaminated by afterwards forming improper companions. With
reference to the effects of early education, it has been most truly
said, that

"Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd."

And though a variety of causes may operate to form the character, or
give a bias to the mind, it is a fact not to be controverted, that early
impressions are never wholly eradicated, and the ma