Tales for the Common People and Other Cheap Repository TractsTrent Editions, 2002 - 178 pages This collection from Hannah More reveals a creative conflict that advocates the values of the prevailing ideology while at the same time seeking to modify them. |
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Page 102
... Jones , mildly , " do you think that young people will disobey their parents the more for being taught to fear God ? " " I don't think any thing about it , " said Rebecca : I shan't let her come , and there's the long and short of the ...
... Jones , mildly , " do you think that young people will disobey their parents the more for being taught to fear God ? " " I don't think any thing about it , " said Rebecca : I shan't let her come , and there's the long and short of the ...
Page 106
... Jones greatly disapproved the practice of turning away the scholars because they were grown up . Young people , said she " want to be warned at sixteen more than they did at six , and they are commonly turned adrift at the very age when ...
... Jones greatly disapproved the practice of turning away the scholars because they were grown up . Young people , said she " want to be warned at sixteen more than they did at six , and they are commonly turned adrift at the very age when ...
Page 112
... Jones of what had passed . When the examination of the girls began Betty Stiles was asked some questions on the fourth and fifth commandments which she answered very well . Hester was asked nearly the same questions , and , though she ...
... Jones of what had passed . When the examination of the girls began Betty Stiles was asked some questions on the fourth and fifth commandments which she answered very well . Hester was asked nearly the same questions , and , though she ...
Contents
THE HISTORY OF TOM WHITE THE POSTILION | 5 |
THE WAY TO PLENTY OR THE SECOND PART | 17 |
THE SHEPHERD OF SALISBURY PLAIN PART | 33 |
Copyright | |
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