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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"The Family Instructor: In Three Parts"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Plant"
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Date: 1715
"The Child may be wrought upon; Nature like some Vegetables, is malleable when taken green and early; but hard and brittle when condens'd by Time and Age; at first it bows and bends to Instruction and Reproof, but afterwards obstinately refuses both."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1715
"From whence also Parents are warned to be very careful, that by their Example or Negligence, those first softned Circumstances of their Childrens Minds are not pass'd over without suitable Applications, to forming them a right, filling them with Learning and Knowledge, and with just Principles, ...
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)