Toys "Why don't you play with your playthings, my dear? I am sure that I have bought toys enough for you; why can't you divert yourself with them, instead of breaking them to pieces?" says a mother to her child, who stands idle and miserable, surrounded by disjointed dolls, maimed horses, coaches and one-horse chairs without wheels, and a nameless...Learn More

Tasks "Why don't you get your task, instead of playing with your playthings from morning till night? You are grown too old now to do nothing but play. It is high time you should learn to read and write, for you cannot be a child all your life, child; so go and fetch your book, and learn your task." This angry apostrophe is probably addressed to a...Learn More

      AN ESSAY ON THE NOBLE SCIENCE OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION   "For which an eloquence that aims to vex, With native tropes of anger arms the sex." – Parnell.   Endowed , as the fair sex indisputably are, with a natural genius for the invaluable art of self-justification, it may not be displeasing to them to see its rising perfection evinced by an...Learn More

An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification "For which an eloquence that aims to vex, With native tropes of anger arms the sex." – Parnell. Endowed, as the fair sex indisputably are, with a natural genius for the invaluable art of self-justification, it may not be displeasing to them to see its rising perfection evinced by an attempt to...Learn More