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Title: Stuyvesant A Franconia Story
Author: Jacob Abbott
Release Date: May 12, 2009 [EBook #28776]
Language: English
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Stuyvesant
A FRANCONIA STORY
BY JACOB ABBOTT
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1904
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York.
Copyright, 1881, by BENJAMIN VAUGHAN ABBOTT, AUSTIN ABBOTT, LYMAN ABBOTT, and EDWARD ABBOTT.
[Illustration: THE BOYS AT THE MILL.]
PREFACE.
The development of the moral sentiments in the human heart, in early life,--and every thing in fact which relates to the formation of character,--is determined in a far greater degree by sympathy, and by the influence of example, than by formal precepts and didactic instruction. If a boy hears his father speaking kindly to a robin in the spring,--welcoming its coming and offering it food,--there arises at once in his own min