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Georgiana and her Father,

OR

CONVERSATIONS

ON NATURAL PHENOMENA.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "THREE YEARS IN ITALY,”
"LITTLE GEORGIANA," &c.

-Seest thou those worlds

That roll at various distance round the throne
Of God, innumerous, and fill the calm

Of heaven with sweetest harmony, when saints

And angels sleep?

Pollok's Course of Time.

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PUBLISHED BY R. B. SEELEY AND W. BURNSIDE :
SOLD BY L. B. SEELEY AND SONS,

FLEET STREET, LONDON.

MDCCCXXXII.

INTRODUCTION.

OUR readers, we presume, are not unacquainted with "Little Georgiana." We would again introduce her to your notice, no longer as a child, but having "put away childish things:" in other words, being arrived at the "years of discretion;" the number of which years we cannot correctly ascertain. She had learnt how to prize that which is good, and wise, and holy; and was still grasping after more of that knowledge which can only be communicated by the teaching of the Holy Spirit: and which as a "shining light, shineth more and more unto the perfect day." In her early days, she experienced that "the ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." Her favourite

pursuits were not attended with the disappointments and mortifications which too frequently embitter the enjoyments of youth. The pleasures of the returning seasons in the country afforded her an endless variety. And although she enjoyed the society of her younger friends, her father was her favourite companion: why he was so, we hope the following conversations will sufficiently evince, and induce those who read them to follow Georgiana's example in taking knowledge of the works of their Creator in the days of their youth, that they may be kept from the vanity which their time of life is subject to, and restrained from walking "in the way of their heart, and in the sight of their eyes; for, for all these things God will bring them into judgment."

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