PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE; SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, AND 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE; 1849. THE Author, in offering to his youthful readers a few thoughts on some important subjects for their conduct in life, has adopted the plan of addressing them in verse. His own experience, and the recollection of the days of childhood, have persuaded him, that good sentiments are more easily and powerfully fixed in the memory and heart of a young person by means of poetry than prose; and that even one simple stanza, well remembered, may prove of much service in after life; assuming only, that the lines be worth remembering, if not for the merit of the verses, at least for the lesson which they convey. It will be seen that all the subjects in this collection have been taken from the PROVERBS OF SOLOMON," a book which extends its instructions to every relation and every state of life; and with equal authority directs the king and the subject, the rich and the poor, the parent and child, the young and the old, in the duties of their respective stations and conditions of life. |