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Embarkation for the Illinois -- Western steamboats in general -- The Banner in particular -- Her captain and crew -- Hooshier bride and bridegroom -- A walk in St. Louis -- A horrible tale of lynching -- Departure from St. Louis -- The first night on board the Banner -- The next morning -- Speed of our boat -- Junction of the Missouri and Mississippi -- Landing at Alton -- Unpardonable behavior of the boat under trying circumstances -- Disaster to the captain -- A specimen of Hooshier indignation -- Leaving Alton we discover that Jersey is on board -- A day on an island -- Who Jersey is -- Some of his experience during his travels -- His political opinions -- Peculiar style of expressing them -- His notions on travel -- Another night on the Banner -- A conversation with our western bridegroom -- His opinions on the woman question decidedly anti-Wollstonecraft -- His reasons for entering into matrimony -- How he would sympathize with his wife in sorrow, with a practical illustration -- Her story and disposition to lighten the darker shades of his doctrines -- Improved conduct of the boat -- Politeness of her captain -- Our style of conversation pantomimic on my part -- Landing -- Pokerton -- Starting for our final destination -- The country, the road, the slues -- Their peculiar character demonstrated -- Woodland and its principal inhabitants -- Prairie Lodge -- Our meeting -- Sun-bonnets, veils, gloves, etc. -- Environments of Prairie Lodge -- Its neighbors -- A horticultural curiosity -- Preparing for tea -- Partaking it -- The evening -- Who were present, and how we spent it -- Prairie life begun -- Rambles in the groves and over the prairies -- Visits on horseback -- An afternoon with a neighbor three miles distant -- Amusing details of this visit, a fair specimen of the social visiting of the country -- Commencement of Sucker life -- Our next neighbor -- The mother Meg Merrilies -- The house; its architecture -- The grounds; how laid out and adorned -- The children; their pastimes -- The father; his political and social position -- Another house; the spirit which reigned in it -- Beauty of order and purity in domestic life -- Spring around Prairie Lodge -- Showers -- Thunderstorms at night -- Their sublimity -- Their effect on the landscape -- Pleasures of the season -- Strawberry -- Quail -- Scene from his domestic life -- Grouse; his habits -- Spring morning in the prairies -- Bob-o-link -- Woodpecker -- Parroquet -- Crow -- Buzzard -- Wild turkey -- Cattle on the prairie -- Hare -- Deer -- Whippoor-Will -- The tale of sorrow -- Sickness of strangers on first arriving in the country -- Their claims to hospitality -- The solitary man's settlement in the west -- His wife; their love; their progress and prospects -- A remarkable series of thunder-storms -- The pestilence which followed -- The husband and wife both prostrated -- The death of the wife and infant -- His grief -- Their grave -- The beauty of the spot -- Reasons for the attachment of the prairie settler to his home -- A rare opportunity for seeing the natives of our region -- The menagerie; getting to it -- Style of locomotion -- Tyler; his peculiarities, ill luck, gait, &c.; his companion -- Our arrival -- Street dialogue -- Discussion of the show -- Entrance -- Appearance of the crowd; their motley dress -- A character; his garb -- Another; her dress; stature; recognition -- Her sensibility and comments on the performances -- Her description of the male personage before introduced -- His stories of the wars and himself -- An invitation -- The departure for home -- Discussion of persons and things -- Legal document -- Close of the day -- Delicate foot-print -- Leaving Prairie Lodge -- Difficulty of finding another home -- What it proves when found -- Its mistress -- Her housekeeping -- Committee on dress -- A walk -- What it decides -- Resignation under desperate circumstances -- A discovery -- A cup of joy dashed before it is partaken -- First night in the Sucker home -- Room mates, furniture, &c. -- Pony -- Rebellion; how maintained -- Sabbath -- Next day; its deeds -- The house; its decorations -- The surprise anticipated -- Comment of my neighbor -- Settled -- Toilet apparatus -- Difficulty of retaining it -- A new proposition rejected with some spirit at first -- How acceded to finally -- Our host; his origin, fortunes, opinions, &c. -- His daughter Sidney and her husband -- Their mode of life -- Sidney's household affairs -- Her culinary arts -- How she was initiated into them -- Fruit groves -- Wanderings in them -- Serpents -- Caught in Boots -- Western housekeeping -- Another visit -- Temperate meal -- The consequence -- Moonlight nights -- Coeur de Lion and his suite -- Their nocturnal ramblings -- Shamefully terminated -- Coeur de Lion's resignation -- Better quarters completed -- Disappointment -- Housekeeping -- Architecture of our dwelling -- Grounds, &c., as described by Mr. F -- My own picture of them -- Our neighborhood -- Interior of the house -- The town -- Our first night at home -- Housekeeping -- Purchases; how disposed of -- Our family -- Susannah -- Pony; her artlessness and patience -- Deserved eulogium -- Our town; its first settlement -- Yankees as early settlers -- Character of our population -- Political and religious faith -- Mrs. Esculapius; her remarkable gifts -- Deacon Cantwyne; his piety, charity, &c. -- Our village doctor; his wonderful gait -- His partner Pomp -- How they did business -- The doctor's musical efforts -- Fire on the prairie -- Wood parties -- The orchard -- The parrighee of the moon -- Sporting parties -- Tragical termination of one -- The grocery next door to us -- Horrible event -- Something more of my housekeeping -- Making bread -- My purveyor -- My first dinner -- Cook, lamb, &c. -- Winter on the prairies -- Sleigh rides -- Cold houses -- Fickleness of the climate -- Deer-hunting in winter -- Mode of building and style of dwellings -- Winter evenings -- Navigation suspended -- Treacherous ice -- Opening of spring -- A spring night -- Features and voice of nature -- Wild fowl -- Steamboats -- Magnitude of streams -- Speculation -- New arrivals -- Opening farms -- Breaking prairie -- Making fence -- Planting trees -- Removal -- Return to Prairie Lodge -- Painful apprehensions -- How dispelled -- Their return -- Reminiscences of early life -- The progress of the destroyer -- The final scene -- Another mission of death -- Agonizing memories -- Pestilence abroad -- Drought -- Character of the illness caused by it -- Gloom and grief -- Dawn of new light -- Birds and animals of prairie land -- The gopher; its curious habits -- Prairie fox -- Prairie dog -- Prairie wolves -- Red wolf harmless -- Grey wolf ferocious -- Danger of unarmed travelers in former years -- Incidents in later years -- Catamount and panther found in "bottom lands" -- Grey wolf monarch of the prairie -- Robs the tomb when famished -- The burning of the prairie -- A thrilling incident on the great northern and southern road, passing near Peoria, Illinois -- The country around the spot -- Its rare beauty -- Account of an early settler here; his preparation for winter; journey to the nearest settlement for his cow and for winter supplies -- Mother and children left alone -- Visit from warrior Indians -- Sleepless night and foreboding of evil -- She watches the prairie -- Faint light in the distance -- Prairie on fire -- Fearful progress of the flames, and the sublimity of the scene -- Her terror and helplessness -- Cabin in flames -- The instinct of the dog saves the lives of mother and children -- They sleep without shelter, and sustain life by a pittance of wild fruit -- Desolation of the scene -- A storm comes on -- Children and mother hover around the smouldering ruins of the cabin -- The mother sinks -- Premature birth -- The father arrives to hear from his wife the terrible story, to witness her dying hour, and to bury mother and child in one tomb -- His bitter grief -- Progress of the settlers -- Habits -- Views of labor -- A journey -- Love ring -- The next tavern -- Amusing incidents -- Court -- Lawyers -- Dialogue with the driver -- The stage-house -- Hostess -- The quandary -- Indifference to the comforts of life; how induced -- Dixonville, the Vicksburg of Illinois -- Gang of thieves -- Incidents there -- Crimes of these men -- The landlord -- The night -- Departure -- Pleasant ride with the New England farmer -- Arrival among friends -- Three guests in one cabin -- Fun -- "Smudging" muskitos -- Climate of the west -- The new town in prospect -- The eccentric man its founder -- His removal to the west -- The inhabitants of the town -- The sea captain -- Our host -- His wife; a pattern of excellence -- Our amusements and visits in the neighborhood -- Departure -- Early settlers -- Emigrants -- The emigrant supplants the Sucker; the reason -- Their different views of life -- Hospitality of the people of the prairie -- Their daily food and method of preparing it -- Morals of the people -- Religious sects -- The circuit preacher -- Style of preaching -- An amusing character -- Happy effect of their ministry -- Excursions -- Visit to the burial grounds and council house of the Sauks -- Reflections -- A tour through the prairie country -- Anecdotes and dialogues -- Tour continued -- Amusing incidents -- Tour continued -- Dialogues with the settlers -- Cheerless hotel -- Tour ended -- Happy residence at Alton; its social aspect more like the eastern cities -- Beauty of the country -- The picnic -- Delightful close of the day -- Return to our former residence -- Change in the place --
Early Lessons at Home and School -- From The Colloquy (c. 1000) / From On the Properties of Things (c. 1200) / ABC of Aristotle (c. 1430) / from The Schoole of Vertue and Booke of Good Nurture (1557) / From The Boke of Nurture, or Schoole of Good Manners (1577) / From A Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594) / Hornbook -- Battledore -- Domestic Writing: Juvenilia -- 'A new yeres gift' (1581) / 'George Bercklay to his grandfather' (1610) and 'George to Mrs Cave his mothers wayting woman' (c. 1613) / Letter to her Father: Mary Downing to Emmanuel Downing (1635) / Mothers' Advice and Grief -- From Miscelanea, Meditations, Memoratives (1604) / From The Mothers Blessing (1616) / From The Mothers Legacie to her Unborne Childe (1624) / From A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters (1645) / 'On the death of my first and dearest childe' (1655) / 'On the Death of my dear Daughter' (1703) / Writing of Clergymen and Schoolmasters -- From This Historie of Four-Footed Beastes (1607) / From Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1659) / Puritan 'Hell-Fire': Warnings and Warmth -- From Milk for Babes (1646) / 'Upon my Son Samuel' (1657) and 'In reference to her Children' (1659) / From A Token for Children (1672) / From War with the Devil (1673) / From The New England Primer (1683-1830) -- From A Book for Boys and Girls (1686) / Lyrical Instruction: Isaac Watts and his Contemporaries -- From Divine Songs (1715) and Moral Songs (1740) / From Fables (1727) / From Poems on Several Occasions (1734) / Chapbooks and Penny Histories -- Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1744) -- Interesting Story of the Children in the Wood -- From The Life and Death of Tom Thumb -- From The Pleasant History of Thomas Hickathrift -- Trial of an Ox, for Killing a Man -- From The Riddle Book -- Boreman, Cooper, and Newbery: 'Instructions with Delight' -- From The Gigantick History (1741) / From A Little Pretty Pocket-Book (1744) / From Nurse Truelove's New Year's Gift (1755) -- From The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) -- Rational Moralists -- From The Governess (1749) / From The Adventures of a Pincushion (c. 1780) / From Poems an Various Subjects (1783) / From Her Journal Book (1783) / From The History of Sandford and Merton (1783) / From Cobwebs to Catch Flies (c. 1783) / From Original Stories (1788) / From Mental Improvement (1794) / From The Village School (c. 1795) / 'The Purple Jar' from Early Lessons (1801) / From The Young Emigrants (1826) / From The Affectionate Parent's Gift (1828) / From Mary's Grammar (1835) / From Rollo at School (1839) / 'Janetta and her Jujubes' from Farewell Tales (1840) / From Make the Best of It (1843) / Sunday School Moralists -- From Early Piety (1777) / From Hymns in Prose for Children (1781) and Lessons for Children: Part IV (1788) / From Fabulous Histories (1786) and The Charity School Spelling Book (c. 1798) / From Divine Hymns (1790) and Instructions for Children (1794) / Black Giles, the Poacher: Part II (1796) / From The History of the Fairchild Family (1818) / From The Peep of Day (1833) / From Flowers That Never Fade (1838) / From Dutch Tiles (1842) / Harbingers of the Golden Age -- From Hymns for the Amusement of Children (1772) and 'My Cat Jeoffry' from Jubilate Agno / From Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) / From The Infant's Library (c. 1800) / From Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804-5) and Rhymes for the Nursery (1806) / From The Daisy (1807) / Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807) / Peacock 'At Home' (1807) / From Poems (1808) / From Poetry for Children (1809) / From Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (1813) -- 'A Visit from Saint Nicholas' (1823) / From Poems for Our Children (1830) / Story of the Three Bears (1831) / From Sketches of Natural History (1834) / From Holiday House: A Series of Tales (1839) / From New Nursery Songs for All Good Children (1843) / From The Book of Nonsense (1846) / From The English Struwwelpeter (1848) / Sad Tale of Mrs Mole and Mrs Mouse (c. 1849) /
New York, New York, U.S.A. : Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1993.
0140172327 (paperback)
Conceptions of unity. Art -- Fact and value -- Schopenhauer -- Art and religion -- Comic and tragic -- Consciousness and thought : I -- Derrida and structuralism -- Consciousness and thought : II -- Wittgenstein and the inner life -- Notes on will and duty -- Imagination -- Morals and politics -- The ontological proof -- Descartes and Kant -- Martin Buber and God -- Morality and religion -- Axioms, duties, eros -- Void -- Metaphysics : a summary.
The life of Washington : with curious anecdotes, equally honorable to himself and exemplary to his young countrymen. Chapter I ; Chapter II : birth and education ; Chapter III ; Chapter XIII : character of Washington / Hymen's recruiting sergeant, or, The new matrimonial tat-too, for the old bachelors, with some elegant songs / American Tract Society. Tract no. 92 : the forgiving African : an authentic narrative ; Tract no. 128 : poor Sarah, or, The Indian woman ; Tract no. 175 : to mothers ; Tract no. 493 : beware of bad books -- American Tract Society. Tract no. 512 : murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers / Tract no. 515 : novel-reading.
