Dangerous sports. A tale / Addressed to children. Warning them against wanton, careless, or mischievous exposure to situations, from which alarming injuries so often proceed.

  • Parkinson, James, 1755-1824
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Dangerous sports. A tale / Addressed to children. Warning them against wanton, careless, or mischievous exposure to situations, from which alarming injuries so often proceed. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    b 8 loine hiftorical, or geographical faft, or to fome curious circumftance irv the natural hittory of animals and vegetables. In the fummer time the exercife might be, to difcover the names of the various plants in the fields, and of the trees in the Moods. In the evening, the Jky% bcfpangled xcith funs and other worlds, might furnifli inllruftion; the talk might now be to mark the conftel- lations, the planets, and the larger ftars. The command# for faulty ignorance might be to learn by rote fome little geographical table, or problem, the cha rafters of fome plant, or the natural hi dory of fome animal. Swimming is a very falutary exer- cife; but po one thould go into the water until they hav* learnt to fwim.