Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I mention these circumstances merely as instances, how very early children learn to pass a silent judgment on the treatment they meet with, and of what importance it is in education, that parents and preceptors should attend to this, and never suffer punishment to exceed, what the case my seem to justify, to the mind of the delinquent. CHAPTER V. The Author sent to school....First reception by her grandmother....Sketch of the old lady's character; the evident result of peculiar circumstances, and early strong associations....Infectious fever at Catterick....Fortitude of the Author's parents....Their preservation....Beneficial effects ef a father's praise....Contrary effects of unreasonable severity. In June, 1754, when I was ten years of age, I was sent to York for the purpose of attending the dancing school, and of learning the sort of ornamental needle-work then in fashion. I was boarded with a person, who had two nieces, whom I accompanied to the different schools for these purposes, and who was well-meaning, but illiterate, vulgar, and of an uncontrolled temper. It was the first time I had ever been from home with strangers; and the contrast between her manners and those of my old friend Mrs. Maurice, although I did not exactly know the reason, impressed my mind very painfully. I consoled myself, however, with the frequent visits I should doubtless make to my maternal grandmother, who had lately resigned the family mansion to her son, just returned from the continent; and with her daughters, my two maiden aunts, had come to reside in this city. Ibad never seen her, but I had pleased myself with anticipating how well I would behave, and how delighted she would be to receive me. She was a very stately old lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, a complete aristoc...