He silenced his antagonists, and was presented with a diamond and a purse of gold. Vol.1.page 80. London William Darton, 58, Holborn Hill. JUVENILE PLUTARCH; CONTAINING ACCOUNTS OF THE LIVES OF CELEBRATED CHILDREN, AND OF THE INFANCY OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN ILLUSTRIOUS FOR THEIR VIRTUES OR TALENTS. WITH PLATES, PART THE FIRST. FOURTH EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED, BY ASSIGNMENT OF THE ASSIGNEES OF RICHARD PHILLIPS, BY WILLIAM DARTON, 58, HOLBORN HILL. 1820. Price Half-a-Crown. PREFACE. THE great LORD BACON hath justly observed, that "Knowledge drawn fresh, and, as it were in our view, out of particulars, knows the way best to particulars again; and it hath much greater life for practice, when the discourse attends upon the example, than when the example attends upon the discourse.", History and biography have been too frequently employed in the service of error and vice; but by proper management they may be made equally effectual in the cause of learning, virtue, and religion. Examples of the progress of great and good men in the paths which led them to that glory which has rendered them objects of admiration to posterity, cannot but excite in the minds of ingenuous youths a de, sire to imitate them. To produce so desirable an end was the object of the editor in compiling the following work, in which the examples of early virtue and genius have been selected with care, delineated with exactness, and placed in such a point of view, and attended with such remarks, as may best serve to form proper models for the consideration and imitation of young persons of both sexes, |