| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1794 - 264 páginas
...Mother, and a Family of Children, are fuppofed to be pojfejjed by a Ned of Redbreafts ; and others of the feathered race are, by the force of imagination, endued with the fame faculties : but, before Henry and Charlotte began to read thefe Hi/iories they ivere taught to... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1815 - 352 páginas
...Author's Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature. to be possessed by a nest of Redbreasts ; and others of the feathered race are, by the force of imagination,...a series of Fables, designed not merely to excite compassion and tenderness for those interesting and delightful creatures, on which such wanton cruelties... | |
| 1817 - 702 páginas
...Histories' she teaches 1>er young readers ' to consider them, not as containing; the real conversation of birds (for that it is impossible we should ever understand), but as a series of Fables, intended to convey moral instruction applicable to them,' &c. In the same light the following history... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1822 - 596 páginas
...mother, and a family of children, are supposed to be possessed by a nest of Redbreasts ; and others of the feathered race are, by the force of imagination, endued with the same faculties : but before * fee the Author's Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature. Henry and Charlotte began to read these... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1826 - 176 páginas
...mother, and a family of children, are supposed to be possessed by a nest of Redbreasts ; and others of the feathered race are, by the force of imagination,...containing the real conversations of birds, (for that is impossible we should ever understand), but as a series of FABLES, intended to convey moral instruction... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1845 - 204 páginas
...mother, and a family of children, are supposed to be possessed by a nest of Redbreasts; and others of the feathered race are, by the force of imagination,...taught to consider them, not as containing the real conversation of Birds, (for that is impossible we should ever understand) but as a series of Fables,... | |
| Tess Cosslett - 2006 - 228 páginas
...their mamma, 'to amuse them', wrote this book, but before the children were allowed to read it, ... they were taught to consider them, not as containing the real conversations of birds (for that is impossible we should ever understand), but as a series of FABLES, intended to convey moral instruction... | |
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