THE

PARENTS' FRIEND:

OR

EXTRACTS FROM THE PRINCIPAL WORKS

ON

EDUCATION,

FROM THE TIME OF MONTAIGNE TO THE PRESENT DAY,

FOR MATHEW CAREY AND PATRICK BYRNE,

Sold by them, and by John Conrad and Co. and Samuel F. Bradford, Phila-
delphia; Samuel Campbell, New-York; Thomas and Andrews, Boston;
M. Conrad and Co. and Bonsall and Niles, Baltimore.

........

1803.

MEM AOKK

1

Public and private Education, Schools,.and.the best.

Manner of spending the 34

Vacations,.

CHAP. XV.

On the Duties of the Female Sex, and on the

Education of Girls..........

74

CHAP. XVI.

Reading, Grammar, Languages, Rhetoric, Logic... 132

Writing, Arithmetic, and Book-keeping............. 253