Memoirs of the Life of the Late Mrs Catharine Cappe

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER 3. Hints for the use of parents... Importance of their own example. .. .Mischiefs of injudicious praise... .Lasting effects resulting from accidental circumstances... .From incidental conversations... .Value and importance of early religious impressions. It being one of my objects, as already...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER 3. Hints for the use of parents... Importance of their own example. .. .Mischiefs of injudicious praise... .Lasting effects resulting from accidental circumstances... .From incidental conversations... .Value and importance of early religious impressions. It being one of my objects, as already mentioned, to throw some light, for the benefit of others, on what passes in the infant mind, as far as I can do it, by instances adduced from my own recollection, I will here put down, as faithfully as it is in my power, the effects which I remember to have been produced, whether by something original in my own disposition, or by very early associations arising from peculiar situations, from accidental occurrences, or from incidental conversations. In respect of the first, as far back as I can recollect, there was in my natural disposition a great desire of being noticed, and an ardent love of praise; not unaccompanied, perhaps, by a considerable portion of ambition and pride. It may partly account for this, that I was held up at Long Preston and honourably distinguished there, by the wives and daughters of the Statesmen, Miss of the Vicarage; which, together with what I continually heard of the splendour of my mother's connexions, might, at the same time, generate very early the desire, and encourage the expectation, of becoming hereafter a person of some consequence; and I can remember a number of little stratagems, when I was yet veryyoung, which had for their object the ambition of being thus considered. Soon after we removed to Catterick, Sir Conyers D'Arcy, a very old man, the uncle of Lord Holderness, and a character at that time much esteemed in the neighbourhood, called upon my father, who happening to be from home, and my mother being confined to her room by ind...