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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...

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...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...m Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the... ...generally with his regiment, and when visiting them was a good deal at the United Service Club. He had lately married an heiress in a small way, retir... ...t see that we could do better for your happiness or mine.” “Don’t put mine first” (half-crying). “I didn’t know I did. It all comes to the same thing.... ...e midst others came in—a barrister and his wife to say good-bye before the circuit, a professor with a ticket for the gallery at a scientific dinner, ... ...dinner. It’s father—” “Where is father?” “Those horrid people in Tottenham Court Road sent for him just as he had come home,” said Janet. “He went out... ...efulness, found herself composing conversations in which she made eloquent appeals to Janet, which she was never likely to utter. At last the morning ... ...ke her to London to see Janet in her lodgings before the departure for the States. He was at her service, and as they did not mean to sleep in town, t...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ies Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther t... ...le every social arrangement is educative in effect, the edu- cative effect first becomes an important part of the pur- pose of the association in conn... ..., trans- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with differ... ...- portation, intercommunication, and emigration, countries like the United States are composed of a combination of different groups with different tra... ...h. And this suggests that the aim of education is to facilitate such short-circuited growth. The great ad- vantage of immaturity, educationally speaki... ... transactions a man has to prove “interest” in order to have a standing at court. He has to show that some proposed step concerns his af- fairs. A sil... ...scattering and imaginatively inert. Geog- raphy is a topic that originally appeals to imagination— even to the romantic imagination. It shares in the ...