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ſixpenny books for children, ſplendidly bound in the flowered and gilt Dutch paper of former days, ſent him twenty ſuch volumes, and laid the foundation of a love of books which grew with the child's growth, and did not ceaſe even when the vacant mind and eye could only gaze in piteous, though bliſsful imbecility upon the things they loved.'[1]

Many of theſe little books have been doubtleſs long ſince forgotten, though they did not deſerve ſuch a fate; but the name of "Goody Two Shoes" is ſtill familiar to the ears of Engliſh children, though the book itſelf may be unknown to thouſands of little ones of this later generation.

  1. ↑ Essays from the Times. Robert Southey. By Samuel Phillips, pp. 168–169, vol. i.
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