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Title: Practical Education, Volume II

Author: Maria Edgeworth
Richard Edgeworth

Release Date: May 7, 2009 [EBook #28709]

Language: English

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PRACTICAL EDUCATION:

BY

MARIA EDGEWORTH,

AUTHOR OF LETTERS FOR LITERARY LADIES, AND THE PARENT'S ASSISTANT, &c.
&c.

AND, BY

RICHARD LOVELL EDGEWORTH,

F. R. S. AND M. R. I. A.

IN TWO VOLUMES ... VOL. II.

SECOND AMERICAN EDITION.

PUBLISHED

BY J. FRANCIS LIPPITT, PROVIDENCE, (R. I.) AND T. B. WAIT & SONS,
BOSTON.

T. B. Wait and Sons, Printers.

1815.

CONTENTS.

Chapter Page

XIII. _On Grammar and Classical Literature_ 5
XIV. _On Geography and Chronology_ 31
XV. _On Arithmetic_ 37
XVI. _Geometry_ 54
XVII. _On Mechanics_ 57
XVIII. _Chemistry_ 85
XIX. _On Public and Private Education_ 92
XX. _On Female Accomplishments, &c._ 109
XXI. _Memory and Invention_ 138
XXII. _Taste and Imagination_ 178
XXIII. _Wit and Judgment_ 214
XXIV. _Prudence and Economy_ 248
XXV. _Summary_ 267

APPENDIX.

_Notes, containing Conversations and Anecdotes of
Children_ 283

PRACTICAL EDUCATION.

CHAPTER XIII.

ON GRAMMAR, AND CLA