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  JEMIMA PLACID;

  OR, THE

  ADVANTAGE

  OF

  GOOD-NATURE.


  EXEMPLIFIED IN
  _A VARIETY OF FAMILIAR INCIDENTS_.


  A NEW EDITION.


  _LONDON_:
  Printed by T. C. HANSARD, Peterborough-court, Fleet-street, for
  BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY,
  47, Paternoster-row; and
  N. HAILES, Piccadilly.

  1819.




PREFACE.


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 from their
connexion with the puerile inclinations and bounded views of an infant
mind, where present gratification is the whole they can comprehend, and
therefore suffer in proportion when their wishes are obstructed.

The main design of this publication is, to prove, from example, that the
pain of disappointment will be much increased by ill-temper; and that to
yield to the force of necessity will be found wiser than vainly to
oppose it. The contrast between the principal character, with the
peevishness of her cousin's temper, is intended as an incitement to that
placid disposition