The Improvement of the Mind: To Which Is Added, a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Improvement of the Mind: To Which Is Added, a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth

While in this afflicting situation, he was received into the house of Sir Thomas Abney, of Newington, Knight and Ai derman of London, where he was entertained with the ut most tenderness, friendship, and liberality, for the space of thirty-six years. Sir Thomas died about eight years after Dr Watts became an inmate in his family, but he continued with Lady Abney and her daughters to the end of his life: Lady Abney died about a year after him, and the last of the family, Mrs. Elizabeth Abney, in'l782.

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