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An Essay on the Government of Children

by James Nelson

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A London apothecary’s remarkably humane eighteenth-century treatise: on nursing, air and diet in infancy, on manners taught by example rather than by correction, on schooling for boys and for girls, and on the different courses proper to different ranks — written with an eye on what children actually endure.

An eighteenth-century parenting book of unusual kindness and sense. Download the free EPUB.

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