Books with author Charlotte Webb

Excerpt from The Beavers and the Elephant: Stories in Natural History, for ChildrenMother herself be full of information, often an impossible achievement; and it is to as sist myself, and others in this dilemma, that I have sketched out the plan of writing The Stories of Animals. The truths of their history are quite as wonderful as the fictions of the numberless tales for children which fill our nurseries, while they have over them this important advantage, that they lead the mind of the child, from the crea ture to the Creator, and teach him to trace the wisdom and the universal love of God, in all the arrangements of his Providence T hose parents who are conversant with the subject will at once perceive, that my plan only aspires to be the thread which strings together the pearls of Buffon and other well - authenticated naturalists; for.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Beavers and the Elephant: Stories in Natural History, for ChildrenMother herself be full of information, often an impossible achievement; and it is to as sist myself, and others in this dilemma, that I have sketched out the plan of writing The Stories of Animals. The truths of their history are quite as wonderful as the fictions of the numberless tales for children which fill our nurseries, while they have over them this important advantage, that they lead the mind of the child, from the crea ture to the Creator, and teach him to trace the wisdom and the universal love of God, in all the arrangements of his Providence T hose parents who are conversant with the subject will at once perceive, that my plan only aspires to be the thread which strings together the pearls of Buffon and other well - authenticated naturalists; for.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.