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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies

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PART I	7

New plan for the universal dissemination of knowledge	13

VFacts and arguments demonstrating that the common use of spir	22

Phenomenon of extracting the greatest good from the worst evil	32

VIIIAn address to the public on the use of ardent spirits	39

The life and moral precepts of Confucius	47

The life and moral precepts of Socrates	56

IIIDialogue between Socrates and Euthydemus on the beneficence	64

The ordinary grounds and occasions of anger	118

On the conversation with ourselves	128

On the conversation with people of a different age	134

On the relations between benefactors and the objects of their	140

XIPrincipal causes of the want of domestic pleasures	146

XIVHuman happiness	153

Virtue	159

ney of labour	167

The life and moral precepts of Seneca	72

IXHuman happiness is founded upon wisdom and virtue	79

No felicity like peace of conscience	90

XVA sensual life is a miserable life	96

XVIIIConstancy of mind gives a man reputation and makes	102

XXIIIAgainst immoderate sorrow for the death of friends	109

PART IV	175

IIIExtracts from the life of Benjamin Franklin L L D written	194

Extracts from Dr Stubers continuation of the life of Franklin	204

Sunday Schools Education of the poor Books	216

XIIIKnowledge the soul of freedom	222

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Jesse Torrey
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Title	The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common ...
Author	Jesse Torrey
Edition	2
Publisher	author, 1819
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	24 Nov 2008
Length	228 pages

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