THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MI N D. To which is added, A DISCOURSE ON THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH. BY ISAAC WATTS, D.D. WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. LONDON: Printed for J. Walker and Co.; J. Nunn; Newman and Co.; Lackington, Allen, Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge. 1814. ADVERTISEMENT. * Few books bave been perused by me with greates pleasore than his Improvement of the Mind; of which the radical principles may indeed be found in Locke's Conduct of the Understanding; but they are so expanded and ramibed by Watts, as to confer on him tbe merit of a work in the bigbest degree 255 fal and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others may be charged with deficiency in his day if this book is not recommended.' Dr. Johnson's Life of Dr. Watts. |