These and many others emphasized not
the effects of piety,--Cotton Mather's forte,--but the benefits of
learning; and hence the good boy was also one who at the age of five
spelt "apple-pye" correctly and therefore eventually became a great man.
At the time of Newbery's death it was more than evident that his
experiment had succeeded, and children's stories were a printed fact.
FOOTNOTES:
[45-A] Field, _The Child and his Book_, p. 223.
[51-A] Welsh, _Bookseller of the Last Century_, pp. 22, 23.
[52-A] Foster, _Life of Goldsmith_, vol. i, p. 244.
[54-A] Welsh, _Bookseller of the Last Century_, p. 109.
CHAPTER III
1750-1776
Kings should be good
Not men of blood.
_The New England Primer_, 1791
If Faith itself has different dresses worn
What wonder modes in wit should take their turn.
POPE: _Essay on Man_
CHAPTER III
1750-1776
_Newbery's Books in America_
In the middle of the eighteenth century Thursdays were red-letter days
for the residents of the Quaker town of Philadelphia.
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