The Juvenile Miscellany Address to the Young. If a heart ever ready to sympathise in juvenile grief, and ever delighted at the sight of childish joy, an afford any certainty of affectionate attention from my young friends, I am sure I shall receive it. I seldom meet a little girl, even in the crowded streets of Boston, without thinking with anxious tenderness, concerning her education, her temper and her principles.
Children can act from good principle, as well as gentlemen and ladies.
The boy, who sees a rival come forward, again and again, to receive the prize he had so often wished for himself, and who yet claps louder and louder, with heart-felt joy at his success, is actuated by a principle, as noble, as ever influenced the greatest and wisest. I have seen many such instances, and they have always warmed my heart, with exceeding love for the dear ones, who could be so generous and so pure. But though I have great affection for you, and the kindest interest in your welfare and improvement, perhaps I may not always be able to afford you amusement and instruction. I have, in some measure, forgotten what pleased me, when I was a child, and it is difficult for me to imagine how I should think or fee, if I were as young as you now are.