LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       FATHER DAMIEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE REVEREND DR. HYDE OF HONOLULU

       THE PENTLAND RISING a page of history 1666

       CHAPTER I—THE CAUSES OF THE REVOLT

       CHAPTER II—THE BEGINNING

       CHAPTER III—THE MARCH OF THE REBELS

       CHAPTER IV—RULLION GREEN

       CHAPTER V—A RECORD OF BLOOD

       THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW

       COLLEGE PAPERS

       CHAPTER I—EDINBURGH STUDENTS IN 1824

       CHAPTER II—THE MODERN STUDENT CONSIDERED GENERALLY

       CHAPTER III—DEBATING SOCIETIES

       CHAPTER IV—THE PHILOSOPHY OF UMBRELLAS [151]

       CHAPTER V—THE PHILOSOPHY OF NOMENCLATURE

       CRITICISMS

       CHAPTER I—LORD LYTTON’S ‘FABLES IN SONG’

       CHAPTER II—SALVINI’S MACBETH

       CHAPTER III—BAGSTER’S ‘PILGRIM’S PROGRESS’

       SKETCHES

       I. THE SATIRIST

       II. NUITS BLANCHES

       III. THE WREATH OF IMMORTELLES

       IV. NURSES

       V. A CHARACTER

       THE GREAT NORTH ROAD

       CHAPTER I—NANCE AT THE ‘GREEN DRAGON’

       CHAPTER II—IN WHICH MR. ARCHER IS INSTALLED

       CHAPTER III—JONATHAN HOLDAWAY

       CHAPTER IV—MINGLING THREADS

       CHAPTER V—LIFE IN THE CASTLE

       CHAPTER VI—THE BAD HALF-CROWN

       CHAPTER VII—THE BLEACHING-GREEN

       CHAPTER VIII—THE MAIL GUARD

       THE YOUNG CHEVALIER

       PROLOGUE—THE WINE-SELLER’S WIFE

       CHAPTER I—THE PRINCE

       HEATHERCAT

       CHAPTER I—TRAQUAIRS OF MONTROYMONT

       CHAPTER II—FRANCIE

       CHAPTER III—THE HILL-END OF DRUMLOWE

CHAPTER I

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      The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, between two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education is to throw out some magnanimous hints. No man was ever so poor that he could express all he has in him by words, looks, or actions; his true knowledge is eternally incommunicable, for it is a knowledge of himself; and his best wisdom comes to him by no process of the mind, but

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