In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors. I do not ever remember to ...

Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the manner of educating their children. Although I intend to leave the description ...

The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature, but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action. ...

I have been working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan’s studies, and I have been practising shorthand very assiduously. When w...

When I had put an end to these long discourses, his majesty, in a sixth audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and objections,...

In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own sex; but ...