Original Stories from Real Life

About this eBook

Author

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

Title

Original stories from real life With conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Didactic fiction, English

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 64275

Release Date

January 12, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ORIGINAL STORIES FROM REAL LIFE ; WITH CONVERSATIONS, CALCULATED TO REGULATE THE AFFECTIONS, AND FORM THE MIND TO TRUTH AND GOODNESS.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.CHAP. I. The Treatment of Animals.—The Ant.—The Bee.—Goodness.—The Lark’s Nest.—The Asses.
6. 6.CHAP. II The Treatment of Animals.—The Difference between them and Man.—Parental Affection of a Dog.—Brutality punished.
7. 7.CHAP. III. The treatment of Animals.—The Story of crazy Robin.—The Man confined in the Bastille.
8. 8.CHAP. IV. Anger.—History of Jane Fretful.
9. 9.CHAP. V. Lying.—Honour.—Truth.—Small Duties.—History of Lady Sly and Mrs. Trueman.
10. 10.CHAP. VI. Anger.—Folly produces Self-contempt, and the Neglect of others.
11. 11.CHAP. VII. Virtue the Soul of Beauty.—The Tulip and the Rose.—The Nightingale.—External Ornaments.—Characters.
12. 12.CHAP. VIII. Summer 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.
13. 13.CHAP. IX. The Inconveniences of immoderate Indulgence.
14. 14.CHAP. X. The Danger of Delay.—Description of a Mansion-house in Ruins.—The History of Charles Townley.
15. 15.CHAP. XI. Dress.—A Character.—Remarks on Mrs. Trueman’s Manner of dressing.—Trifling Omissions undermine Affection.
16. 16.CHAP. XII. Behaviour to Servants.—True Dignity of Character.
17. 17.CHAP. XIII. Employment.—Idleness produces Misery.—The Cultivation of the Fancy raises us above the Vulgar, extends our Happiness, and leads to Virtue.
18. 18.CHAP. XIV. Innocent Amusements.—Description of a Welsh Castle.—History of a Welsh Harper.—A tyrannical Landlord.—Family Pride.
19. 19.CHAP. XV. Prayer.—A Moon-light Scene.—Resignation.
20. 20.CHAP. XVI. The Benefits arising from Devotion.—The History of the Village School-mistress.—Fatal Effects of Inattention to Expences, in the History of Mr. Lofty.
21. 21.CHAP. XVII. The Benefits arising from Devotion.—The History of the Village School-mistress concluded.
22. 22.CHAP. XVIII. Visit to the School-mistress.—True and false Pride.
23. 23.CHAP. XIX. Charity.—The History of Peggy and her Family.—The Sailor’s Widow.
24. 24.CHAP. XX. Visit to Mrs. Trueman.—The Use of Accomplishments.—Virtue the Soul of all.
25. 25.CHAP. XXI. The Benefit of bodily Pain.—Fortitude the Basis of Virtue.—The Folly of Irresolution.
26. 26.CHAP. XXII. Journey to London.
27. 27.CHAP. XXIII. Charity.—Shopping.—The distressed Stationer.—Mischievous Consequences of delaying Payment.
28. 28.CHAP. 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.
29. 29.CHAP. XXV. Mrs. Mason’s farewell Advice to her young Friends.

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