Illustrations of political economy, Volume 8 (of 9)

Harriet Martineau

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English

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Complete work

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Written by the author

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Clean text

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~73,500 words · 349 passages

CHAP. PAGE│CHAP. PAGE 1. The Philosopher at Home 1│5. Introductions 94 2. The Gentleman at Home 22│6. A Father’s Hope 122 3. Saturday Morning 46│7. The End of the Matter 142 4. Sunday Evening 65│ │ THE THREE AGES.. │ 1. First Age 1│3. Third Age 93 2. Second Age 35│ BRIERY CREEK. --------------------- CHAPTER I. THE PHILOSOPHER AT HOME. The sun,—the bright sun of May in the western world,—was going down on the village of Briery Creek, and there was scarcely a soul left within its bounds to observe how the shadows lengthened on the prairie, except Dr. Sneyd; and Dr. Sneyd was too busy to do justice to the spectacle. It was very long since letters and newspapers had been received from England; the rains had interfered with the post; and nothing had been heard at the settlement for a month of what the minister was planning in London, and what the populace was doing in Paris. Dr. Sneyd had learned, in this time, much that was taking place among the worlds overhead; and he now began to be very impatient for tidings respecting the Old World, on which he had been compelled to turn his back, at the moment when its political circumstances began to be the most interesting to him. There had been glimpses of starlight in the intervals of the shifting spring storms, and he had betaken himself, not in vain, to his observatory; but no messenger, with precious leathern bag, had appeared

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