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Thoughts on the Education of Daughters, The Female Reader, Original Stories, Letters on the Management of Infants, Lessons


Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
  • Education of Daughters By Mary Wollstonecraft
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      Prefatory Note
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      Preface
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      The Nursery
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      Moral Discipline
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      Exterior Accomplishments
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      Artificial Manners
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      Dress
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      The Fine Arts
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      Reading
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      Boarding-Schools
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      The Temper
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      Unfortunate Situation of Females, Fashionably Educated, and Left without a Fortune
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      Love
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      Matrimony
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      Desultory Thoughts
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      The Benefits which Arise from Disappointments
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      On the Treatment of Servants
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      The Observance of Sunday
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      On the Misfortune of Fluctuating Principles
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      Benevolence
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      Card-Playing
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      The Theatre
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      Public Places
  • The Female Reader By Mary Wollstonecraft
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      Prefatory Note
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      Preface
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      Select Desultory Thoughts: Addressed to Females
    • Book I: Narrative Pieces
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        The Importance of Religion to Minds of Sensibility
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        Continuation of the Story of La Roche
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        Conclusion of the Story of La Roche
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        The History of Joseph
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        Joseph’s Interview With His Brethren
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        Filial Attention
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        The Filial Piety and Affection of a Daughter
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        Filial Obedience Rewarded
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        The History of Inkle and Yarico
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        Crazy Kate
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        The Folly of Being Led by Fashion
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        The Absurdity of Extremes
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        The Contrast
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        On the Loss of Beauty
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        The Discovery of America
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        The Influence of Science on the Manners of Men
    • Book II: Didactic and Moral Pieces
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        Female Passion for Dress and Shew
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        On Cleanliness
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        The Art of Improving Beauty
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        The Art of Being Pretty
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        Dress
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        The Same Subject
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        The Same Subject
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        Dress Subservient to Useful Purposes
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        Ode to a Young Lady on Dress
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        On Employment
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        Benevolent Employments
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        The Same Subject Continued
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        On Waste of Time
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        Indolence and Want of Thought
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        The Bad Effects of Indolence
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        On the Government of the Temper
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        On Obedience
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        Humility
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        On Politeness
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        False Sensibility
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        False Notions of Sentiment
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        A Fable: The Poet, the Oyster, and Sensitive Plant
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        Vanity And Affectation
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        Dissimulation
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        The Natural Beauty
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        A Definition of Taste
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        True Elegance
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        Ridicule
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        Music
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        An Association of Ideas Produced by Rural Sounds
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        Essay on Talkativeness
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        On Telling of Secrets
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        Justice Defined
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        On Covetousness
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        True Pleasure Defined
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        True End of Life
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        A Letter On Letter-Writing
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        The Advantages Arising from Reading
    • Book III: Allegories and Pathetic Pieces
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        A Vision
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        Carazan: A Vision On Social Love
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        Verses
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        An Allegory
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        Pity: An Allegory
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        Esther’s Interview with the King
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        St Paul Taking Leave of His Friends
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        Lazarus Raised from the Dead
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        The Widow’s Son Raised from the Dead
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        Christ’s Agony. - Peter’s Denial of Christ
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        The Death of Christ, and the Penitent Thief
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        A Character of Christ
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        The Ignorance and Weakness of Man
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        The Ignorance of Man
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        A Grateful Effusion
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        Peter’s Want of Faith
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        A Paraphrase on the Latter Part of the Sixth Chapter of Saint Matthew
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        The Peace of God
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        Dying Friends
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        Hymn on Death
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        On the Resurrection
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        The Last Judgment
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        The Judgments of God
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        The Lamentations of the Jews in Captivity
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        A Prophetic Description of the Destruction of Babylon
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        The Punishment of the Wicked Foretold
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        Divine Mercy
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        Esau Deprived of his Father’s Blessing
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        David’s Lamentation for the Death of his Son
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        Gloster, Edgar, and Old Man
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        Gloster and Edgar
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        Kent and Gentleman
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        Cordelia, Kent, and Physician
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        Hubert and Executioners
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        King Philip, Constance, and Pandulpho
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        Lady Macbeth
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        Doctor and Gentlewoman
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        Macbeth and Doctor
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        Macbeth. Seyton
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        William and Margaret. an Old Scotch Ballad
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        Sonnet to Sleep
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        The Friar of Orders Gray
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        The Mouse’s Petition
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        The Dying Kid
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        Sonnet to a Nightingale
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        Song from the Lapland Tongue
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        A Fragment
    • Book IV: Dialogues, Conversations, and Fables
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        Lord and Lady Townly
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        Between Colonel Rivers and His Daughter, on Her Intended Elopement
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        Bevil and Indiana
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        Orlando and Rosalind
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        Prospero and Miranda
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        Prospero, Miranda, Ferdinand, and Ariel Singing Invisible
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        Ariel’s Song
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        Ferdinand Bearing a Log
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        Prospero and Ariel
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        Miranda, Ferdinand, Etc.
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        Imogen and Pisanio
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        Imogen in Boy’s Clothes
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        Bellarius and Guiderius
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        Dirge in Cymbeline
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        Queen and Lady
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        Conversation Between Adam and Eve on Going to Rest
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        The Camelion; A Fable
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        The Sparrow and Diamond
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        The Monkies; A Tale
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        The Nightingale and Glow–Worm; A Fable
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        The Goose and the Swans; A Fable
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        The Pin and the Needle: A Fable
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        The Two Bees: A Fable
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        Indirect Disputes
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        A Conversation on Truth
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        Lying Punished
    • Book V: Descriptive Pieces
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        The Character of Queen Elizabeth
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        The Character of Mary Queen of Scots
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        A Portrait of Mankind Influenced by Vanity
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        The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds Comparatively Considered
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        A Devotional Psalm
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        The Pleasures of the Country
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        Men and Animals Compared
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        Tenderness for Animals
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        An Evening’s Invocation to Winter
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        The Empress of Russia’s Palace of Ice
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        The Post Boy
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        An Invocation to the Stars
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        Written at Midnight During a Thunder–Storm
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        Ode on Oelus’s Harp
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        On Slavery
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        The Bastile
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        On Humanity
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        Poverty and Luxury Contrasted
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        A Character
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        A Character
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        A Comparison
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        A Comparison
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        On a Lady’s Writing
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        Female Amusements
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        True Gaiety
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        To Stella Visiting Me in My Sickness
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        Dorina, Lucy. A Conversation
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        Dorina, Toinetta, Lucy
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        Lucy, Dorina
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        Portrait of a Modern Fine Lady
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        Stella’s Birth-Day
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        Ornaments
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      Book VI Devotional Pieces, and Reflections on Religious Subjects
  • Original Stories By Mary Wollstonecraft
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      Prefatory Note
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      Preface
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      Introduction
    • Moral Conversations and Stories
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        Chapter I: The Treatment of Animals The Ant The Bee Goodness The Lark’s Nest The Asses
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        Chapter II: The Treatment of Animals The Difference between them and Man Parental Affection of a Dog Brutality punished
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        Chapter III: The Treatment of Animals The Story of crazy Robin The Man confined in the Bastille
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        Chapter IV: Anger History of Jane 1 [Fretful]
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        Chapter V: Lying Honour Truth Small Duties History of Lady 1 [Sly and Mrs Trueman]
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        Chapter VI: Anger Folly produces Self-contempt, and the Neglect of others
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        Chapter VII: Virtue the Soul of Beauty The Tulip and the Rose The Nightingale External Ornaments Characters
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        Chapter VIII: Summer’s Evening’s Amusement The Arrival of a Family of Haymakers Ridicule of personal Defects censured A Storm The Fear of Death The Cottage of honest Jack, the shipwrecked Sailor The History of Jack, and his faithful Dog Pompey
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        Chapter IX: The Inconveniences of immoderate Indulgence
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        Chapter X: The Danger of Delay Description of a Mansion–house in Ruins The History of Charles Townley
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        Chapter XI: Dress A Character Remarks on Mrs 1 [Truemaris] Manner of dressing Trifling Omissions undermine Affection
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        Chapter XII: Behaviour to Servants True Dignity of Character
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        Chapter XIII: Employment Idleness produces Misery The Cultivation of the Fancy raises us above the Vulgar, extends our Happiness and leads to Virtue
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        Chapter XIV: Innocent Amusements Description of a Welsh Castle History of a Welsh Harper A tyrannical Landlord Family Pride
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        Chapter XV: Prayer A Moon-light Scene Resignation
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        Chapter XVI: The Benefits arising from Devotion The History of the Village School-mistress Fatal Effects of Inattention to Expences, in the History of Mr 1 [Lofty]
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        Chapter XVII: The Benefits arising from Devotion The History of the Village School-mistress concluded
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        Chapter XVIII: Visit to the Schoolmistress True and false Pride
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        Chapter XIX: Charity The History of Peggy and her Family The Sailor’s Widow
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        Chapter XX: Visit to Mrs 1 [Trueman] The Use of Accomplishments Virtue the Soul of all
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        Chapter XXI: The Benefit of bodily Pain Fortitude the Basis of Virtue The Folly of Irresolution
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        Chapter XXII: Journey to London
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        Chapter XXIII: Charity Shopping The distressed Stationer Mischievous Consequences of delaying Payment
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        Chapter XXIV: Visit to a poor Family in London Idleness the Parent of Vice Prodigality and Generosity incompatible The Pleasures of Benevolence True and false Motives for saving
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        Chapter XXV: Mrs Mason’s farewell Advice to her young Friends
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      Management of Infants
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      Lessons