Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1871. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 117 The colonial question...
Chapters (44)
- GINX'S BABY
- His Birth and other Misfortunes
- A SATIRE
- PREFACE.
- PART I. WHAT GINX DID WITH HIM.
- I.—Ab initio.
- II.—Home, sweet Home!
- III.—Work and Ideas.
- IV.—Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History.
- V.—Reasons and Resolves.
- VI.—The Antagonism of Law and Necessity.
- VII.—Malthus and Man.
- Two gentlemen, who had been observing the excitement, here came forward.
- VIII.—The Baby's First Translation.
- PART II. WHAT CHARITY AND THE CHURCHES DID WITH HIM.
- I.—The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word.
- II.—The Protestant Detectoral Association.
- III.—The Sacrament of Baptism.
- IV.—Law on Behalf of Gospel.
- V.—Magistrate's Law.
- VI-Popery and Protestantism in the Queen's Bench.
- VII.—A Protestor, but not a Protestant.
- VIII.—“See how these Christians love one another.”
- IX.—Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences.
- X.—The Force—and a Specimen of its Weakness.
- XI.—The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace.
- XII.—No Funds—no Faith, no Works.
- XIII.—In transitu.
- PART III. WHAT THE PARISH DID WITH HIM.
- I.—Parochial Knots—to be untied without prejudice.
- II.—A Board of Guardians.
- III.—“The World is my Parish.”
- IV.—Without prejudice to any one but the Guardians.
- V.-An Ungodly Jungle.
- VI.—Parochial Benevolence—and another translation.
- PART IV. WHAT THE CLUBS AND POLITICIANS DID WITH HIM.
- I.—Moved on.
- II.-Club Ideas.
- III.—A thorough-paced Reformer—if not a Revolutionary.
- IV.—Very Broad Views.
- V.—Party Tactics—and Political Obstructions to Social Reform.
- VI.—Amateur Debating in a High Legislative Body.
- PART V. WHAT GINX'S BABY DID WITH HIMSELF.
- The Last Chapter.
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