The Teacher

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Chapter IX is the additional chapter on "The First Day in School". entioned on the title page. There is no entry in the Table of Contents for this chapter.

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THE TEACHER:

Or Moral Influences Employed in the

Instruction and Government

of the Young.

New Stereotype Edition;

With an

Additional Chapter on "The First Day in School."

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By JACOB ABBOTT, Late Principal of the Mt. Vernon Female School, Boston, Mass.

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BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY WHIPPLE AND DAMRELL,

No. 9 CORNHILL.

1839.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

JACOB ABBOTT,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court

of the District of Massachusetts.

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POWER PRESS OF WILLIAM S. DAMRELL.

TO THE

TRUSTEES AND PATRONS

OF THE

MT. VERNON FEMALE SCHOOL, BOSTON.

GENTLEMEN:

It is to efforts which you have made in the cause of education, with special regard to its moral and religious aspects, that I have been indebted for the opportunity to test by experiment, under the most pleasant and favorable circumstances, the principles which form the basis of this work. To you, therefore, it is respectfully inscribed, as one of the indirect results of your own exertions to promote the best interests of the Young.

I am very sincerely and respectfully yours,

THE AUTHOR.