Practical Education, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Practical Education, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by Maria Edgeworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Practical Education, Vol. 2 of 3 Fiealoufy with the jealous; and avarice with the mli'er: the mere lively his fympathy with thefe painful feelings, the greater mufi be his mifery; the more forcibly he is impelled to aetion by this fympathetic infldence, the greater, proba-c bly, mufi be his imprudence and his guilt. Let us even fuppofe a being capable of fympa thifing only with the belt feelings of his fellow creatures, ftill, without the direetion of reafon, he would be' a nuifance in the world; his pity would tiop the hand, and overturn the balance of juftice' his love would be as dangerous as his pity; his gratitude would exalt his bene factor at the expence of the whole human race; his fympathy with the rich, the profperous, the great, and the fortunate, would be (0 fudden, and to violent, as to leave him no time for re fle'e'tion upon the confequences of tyranny, or the miferies occafioned by monopoly. No time for reflection, did we fay? We forgot that we were fpeakin g of a being deititute of the reafon ing faculty! Such a being, no matter what his Virtuous fympathies might be, muft a t either. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.