"Be careful, greatly careful, my dear child, that familiarity with the sight, does not make you grow indifferent to the consequences of such actions, and so tempt you to partake of the guilt: but let the advice contained in the following sheets sink deep into your mind, and be a shield to defend you from the contagion, which bad example is ever apt to diffuse over the heart of unexperienced innocence."
— Kilner, Dorothy (1755-1836)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
John Marshall
Date
1790?
Metaphor
"Be careful, greatly careful, my dear child, that familiarity with the sight, does not make you grow indifferent to the consequences of such actions, and so tempt you to partake of the guilt: but let the advice contained in the following sheets sink deep into your mind, and be a shield to defend you from the contagion, which bad example is ever apt to diffuse over the heart of unexperienced innocence."
Metaphor in Context
The following pages were written with a design at once to amuse and instruct you, by pointing out some of those despicable tricks, which children, when from under a watchful parent's eye, are frequently apt to commit, and even flatter themselves they are harmless, not considering to what dreadful practices they lead. Be careful, greatly careful, my dear child, that familiarity with the sight, does not make you grow indifferent to the consequences of such actions, and so tempt you to partake of the guilt: but let the advice contained in the following sheets sink deep into your mind, and be a shield to defend you from the contagion, which bad example is ever apt to diffuse over the heart of unexperienced innocence.
(Vol. I, page vii)
(Vol. I, page vii)
Categories
Provenance
Contributed by PC Fleming
Citation
Kilner, Dorothy. Anecdotes of a Boarding-School; or, an Antidote to the Vices of Those Useful Seminaries. . By M. P. 2 vols. (London: Printed and sold by John Marshall and Co., [1790?]). <Link to Vol. I>
<Link to Vol. II>
Date of Entry
07/19/2010
