...to think. It has, therefore, been my .«laughter's aim to promote, by all her writings, the progrese of education, from the cradle to the grave. ' Miss...— of stories for young men and women — and of tale« «uiled to that great mass which does not move in the circles of fashion. The present volumes...

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...anticipation. " It has been my daughter's aim," said Richard Lovell Edgeworth in one of his prefaces, " to promote, by all her writings, the progress of education from the cradle to the grave." There is no escape from this, save by an early death. And Miss Edgeworth's world, let it be admitted,...