Excerpt from Juvenile Philosophy: Containing Amusing and Instructive Discourses on Hogarth's Prints of the Industrious and Idle Apprentices; Analogy Between Plants and Animals; &C. &C. Designed to Enlarge the Understandings of Youth, and to Impress Them at an Early Period With Just and Li Mrs. Wilfon had two fons, Matter Thomas and Mailer James. The former had not the leal't propenfity to-improve his mind in any way in which his mother had yet made the attempt. Encouragement and pu nilhment were both attempted, but more frequently the firit, all in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.