...asnecessary to the ingenious mechanic and husbandman, as they are useful and ornamental .'_- ri-fv^ionaJ man and the scholar. Most of the books now used in...of morality or detached passages of history. These ai-'a mdeed useful ; but why may not children read for common lessons, the known and established principles...

...their hands to useful employments, These principles are as necessary to the ingenious mechanic ami husbandman, as they are useful and ornamental to the...books now used in schools for reading, are composed «f solemn didactic discourses, general lessons of morality, or detached passages of history. These...