Mary Wollstonecraft 
Original Stories From Real Life [PDF ebook] 
With Conversations, Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. H ese converfations and tales an: accommodated to the Brefcnt {late of fo tiety which obliges the author to attempt to cure thofe faults by reafon, which ought never to have taken mm in the infant mind. Good habits, far preferable to the precepts of reafon; but, as this talk requires more judgment than generally falls to the Ice of parents, {ub fiitutes muil be fought for, and medicines given, when regimen would have anfwered the purpofe much better. I believe chofe who examine their own minds will teadil’yr agr cc with me, that reafon, widv difficulty, conquers fettled habits, even when 1t is arrived at fome degree of maturity: why then do we fufi’er children to be bound with fetters, which their halfzfprmed faculties cannot break.