Friends in Council — First Series
by Arthur Helps
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Chapters (40)
- Friends in Council
- INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER I.
- TRUTH.
- CHAPTER II.
- CONFORMITY.
- CHAPTER III.
- DESPAIR.
- REMORSE.
- THE SORROWS OF THE AFFECTIONS.
- WORLDLY TROUBLE.
- MORBID VIEWS OF RELIGION.
- NATIVE MELANCHOLY.
- CHAPTER IV.
- RECREATION.
- CHAPTER V.
- GREATNESS.
- CHAPTER VI.
- FICTION.
- CHAPTER VII.
- ON THE ART OF LIVING WITH OTHERS.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- EDUCATION.
- INTELLECTUAL EDUCATION.
- MORAL EDUCATION.
- PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
- EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
- EDUCATION TO HAPPINESS.
- CHAPTER IX.
- UNREASONABLE CLAIMS IN SOCIAL AFFECTIONS AND RELATIONS.
- CHAPTER X.
- PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
- CHAPTER XI.
- HISTORY.
- I. WHY HISTORY SHOULD BE READ.
- II. HOW HISTORY SHOULD BE READ.
- III. BY WHOM HISTORY SHOULD BE WRITTEN.
- IV. HOW HISTORY SHOULD BE WRITTEN.
- V. HOW GOOD WRITERS OF HISTORY SHOULD BE CALLED FORTH, AIDED, AND REWARDED.
- FOOTNOTES.
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