My The Authe
The Mos Great
Al 11th 1830

with his Randregiss

George Gregor &
James Hiney.

lefpectionate

23 hangush 1850.

Mother

Grant

BIOGRAPHY,

SACRED AND INTERESTING,

DEDUCED FROM

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES,

AND ADAPTED TO

The Use and Enstruction of Children.

DESIGNED TO

PREVENT DISEASE OCCASIONED BY THE EXCITEMENT OF THE PASSIONS.

BY

F. CORBYN, Esq.

""Tis granted that no plainer truth appears,
Our most important are our earliest years.
The mind, impressible and soft, with ease
Imbibes and copies what she fears and sees.
And through life's labyrinths how vast the clue
That education gives her, false or true!"

Calcutta:

COWPER.

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR; AND SOLD BY MESSRS. THACKER AND CO.SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS.

PARBURY, ALLEN, AND CO. LONDON.

21 MAR 1964

LIBRA

TO MRS. WILSON.

MY DEAR MADAM,

When I reflect upon the great sacrifices you have made in the cause advocated in this work, and witness the indefatigable exertion with which you persevere, in this interesting part of our beloved Redeemer's vineyard, in liberating the Indian female from the walls of a Zenana,in laying before her claims to freedom,-in dispersing the clouds of mental darkness,-in introducing to her mind the light of a glorious revelation,-by the system which you have adopted in the female schools which you have been the blessed instrument of establishing, by your