Jemima Placid; or, The Advantage of Good-Nature

· 1831

_LONDON_: Printed by T. C. HANSARD, Peterborough-court, Fleet-street, for BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, 47, Paternoster-row; and N. HAILES, Piccadilly. It has been often said, that infancy is the happiest state of human life, as being exempted from those serious cares, and that anxiety which must ever, in some degree, be an attendant on a more advanced age; but the Author of the following little performance is of a different opinion; and has ever considered the troubles of children as a severe exercise to their patience; when it is recollected that the vexations which they meet with are suited to the weakness of their understanding, and though trifling perhaps in themselves, acquire importance…

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