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"Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents" is a short story written by Rupert Hughes, an American author, playwright, and composer, best known for his works in the early 20th century. This heartwarming and sentimental tale is set during the Christmas season and explores the themes of kindness, compassion, and the true spirit of giving. The story revolves around Mrs. Budlong, an elderly woman living alone, who is preparing for Christmas in her modest home. She has a reputation for being somewhat eccentric, and many of her neighbors consider her an odd character. However, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Mrs. Budlong is a deeply caring and generous person. As Christmas approaches, Mrs. Budlong decides to give away all her worldly possessions as gifts to those in need. She doesn't have much to give in terms of material wealth, but her gifts are deeply meaningful and personal. She provides her neighbors with presents that represent kindness, friendship, and love, rather than expensive items. These presents touch the hearts of those who receive them, and they come to appreciate the true value of Mrs. Budlong's gifts. The story emphasizes the idea that the true essence of Christmas is not about the material value of gifts but about the love and compassion behind them. Mrs. Budlong's actions serve as a reminder of the importance of selflessness and the joy that can be found in giving from the heart. "Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents" is a timeless holiday story that continues to resonate with readers, reminding them of the importance of empathy and the simple, yet profound, act of giving during the holiday season. It embodies the spirit of Christmas and the idea that the most valuable gifts are those that come from the soul.

"Christmas Day" is a collection of two short stories written by Edward Everett Hale, an American author and Unitarian minister. The book was first published in 1892, and it has since become a classic of American Christmas literature. "Christmas Day," continues the narrative, exploring the consequences of Mr. Shuttleworth's newfound compassion. The story delves into the impact of his actions and how his changed perspective on life affects those around him. It illustrates how a single act of kindness can create a ripple effect and bring joy to others. Edward Everett Hale's "Christmas Day" is celebrated for its portrayal of the Christmas spirit as a time for selflessness, empathy, and acts of kindness. It conveys a timeless message about the importance of goodwill and generosity during the holiday season, making it a beloved work of Christmas literature that continues to resonate with readers and audiences looking for heartwarming stories during the festive season.

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library. HETHERINGTON wasn't half a bad sort of a fellow, but he had his peculiarities, most of which were the natural defects of a lack of imagination. He didn't believe in ghosts, or Santa Claus, or any of the thousands of other things that he hadn't seen with his own eyes, and as he walked home that rather chilly afternoon just before Christmas and found nearly every corner of the highway decorated with bogus Saints, wearing the shoddy regalia of Kris-Kringle, the sight made him a trifle irritable. He had had a fairly good luncheon that day, one indeed that ought to have mellowed his disposition materially, but which somehow or other had not so resulted. In fact, Hetherington was in a state of raspy petulance that boded ill for his digestion, and when he had reached the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, the constant iteration and reiteration of these shivering figures of the god of the Yule had got on his nerves to such an extent as to make him aggressively quarrelsome. He had controlled the asperities of his soul tolerably well on the way uptown, but the remark of a small child on the highway, made to a hurrying mother, as they passed a stalwart-looking replica of the idol of his Christmas dreams, banging away on a tambourine to attract attention to the iron pot before him, placed there to catch the pennies of the charitably inclined wayfarer-"Oh, mar, there's Sandy Claus now!"-was too much for him.

10 Christmas Stories for Children: Christmas At Fezziwig's Warehouse by Charles Dickens The Fir-Tree by Hans Christian Andersen The Christmas Masquerade by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Shepherds and the Angels - Adapted from the Bible The Telltale Tile by Olive Thorne Miller Little Girl's Christmas by Winnifred E. Lincoln A Christmas Matinee by Mrs. M.A.L. Lane Toinette and the Elves by Susan Coolidge The Voyage of the Wee Red Cap by Ruth Sawyer Durand A Story Of The Christ-Child by Elizabeth Harkison

Chronicling his own journey from Southampton to the Spanish Main. Charles Kingsley was an English clergymen, novelist, and historian, best known perhaps for his book The Water Babies. In At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies, Kingsley recounts his travels to the West Indies, largely focused on Trinidad, in 1869. It is in many ways a typical 'travel' book of its time, rich in description and presenting an 'imperial' position and outlook on the colony, although as critics such as Claudia Brandenstein, Simon Gikandi and Catherine Hall have pointed out, this position is complicated and, as Kingsley was sympathetic to the idea of evolution and was one of the first to praise Charles Darwin, in some respects an ambivalent one. Kingsley went to the West Indies with liberal and Christian sympathies, but he found it difficult to be objective about what he witnessed due to his theological background and intellectual tradition. For example, he supported the strict control and supervision of the indentured Coolies, even though in England he was a strong advocate of emancipation and the creation of a '"moral bond"' between employee and employer. Gikandi argues that Kingsley reached this conclusion about the West Indian context not because of what he saw there or because of his understanding of the Coolies' own views and perspectives. "Rather the traveler reaches his conclusions from three mutually informing sources: official reports (both oral and written), intellectual Orientalism, and evolutionary doctrines."

The 'Philosophy of the Moral Feelings' is a groundbreaking philosophical work on the complexities of emotions, masterfully crafted by Scottish physician John Abercrombie. It delves into the intricacies of the human emotional experience and offers a tantalizing glimpse into the inner workings of the human psyche. John Abercrombie (10 October 1780 - 14 November 1844) was a Scottish physician and philosopher. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after James Gregory's death, he was "recognized as the first consulting physician in Scotland". He was the official physician to Heriot's Hospital and Physician to the King for Scotland.

This book is designed to help you, the teacher, become better equipped to create enjoyable and effective lessons for your students. Here, you'll learn everything that you need to know to plan great lessons for your classes so that you and your students can make learning easy, stress-free, and fun. "Practical" is the recurrent motif of each teaching strategy. Each lesson follows a standard format that includes: * Purpose of the activity * Necessary preparation * Required props and materials * Process and procedure for implementation * Instructional pointers and/or possible pitfalls * Reflections from the teacher that provide "behind the scenes" insights.

Style, materials, techniques, and values are the focus of this richly illustrated guide to pen drawing. In addition to proposing solutions for practical problems, the book offers advice on architectural and decorative drawing. More than 70 drawings by assorted artists range from tranquil churchyards and bustling city streets to striking posters. Many of the images are derived from The Century Magazine, Harper's Magazine, The Architectural Review, and other illustrated periodicals of the early twentieth century. Irish-American architect Charles D. Maginnis, a co-founder of the firm Maginnis & Walsh, was active in the design of ecclesiastical and campus buildings across the United States. He also served as President of the American Institute of Architects. Maginnis' practical guide to pen drawing features several of his own illustrations, created expressly for this instructive volume.

No class of works is received with more suspicion, I had almost said derision, than those which deal with Science and Religion. Science is tired of reconciliations between two things which never should have been contrasted; Religion is offended by the patronage of an ally which it professes not to need; and the critics have rightly discovered that, in most cases where Science is either pitted against Religion or fused with it, there is some fatal misconception to begin with as to the scope and province of either. But although no initial protest, probably, will save this work from the unhappy reputation of its class, the thoughtful mind will perceive that the fact of its subject-matter being Law-a property peculiar neither to Science nor to Religion-at once places it on a somewhat different footing. The real problem I have set myself may be stated in a sentence. Is there not reason to believe that many of the Laws of the Spiritual World, hitherto regarded as occupying an entirely separate province, are simply the Laws of the Natural World? Can we identify the Natural Laws, or any one of them, in the Spiritual sphere? That vague lines everywhere run through the Spiritual World is already beginning to be recognized. Is it possible to link them with those great lines running through the visible universe which we call the Natural Laws, or are they fundamentally distinct? In a word, Is the Supernatural natural or unnatural? I may, perhaps, be allowed to answer these questions in the form in which they have answered themselves to myself. And I must apologize at the outset for personal references which, but for the clearness they may lend to the statement, I would surely avoid. It has been my privilege for some years to address regularly two very different audiences on two very different themes. On week days I have lectured to a class of students on the Natural Sciences, and on Sundays to an audience consisting for the most part of working men on subjects of a moral and religious character. I cannot say that this collocation ever appeared as a difficulty to myself, but to certain of my friends it was more than a problem. It was solved to me, however, at first, by what then seemed the necessities of the case-I must keep the two departments entirely by themselves.

HOW TO WRITE THE BUSINESS LETTER: 24 chapters on preparing to write the letter and finding the proper viewpoint; how to open the letter, present the proposition convincingly, make an effective close; how to acquire a forceful style and inject originality; how to adapt selling appeal to different prospects and get orders by letter The practical uses of the business letter are almost infinite: selling goods, with distant customers, developing the prestige of the house-there is handling men, adjusting complaints, collecting money, keeping in touch scarcely an activity of modern business that cannot be carried on by letter. Do you find it necessary to adjust the complaint of a client or a customer? A diplomatic letter at the first intimation of dissatisfaction will save many an order from cancellation. It will soothe ruffled feelings, wipe out imagined grievances and even lay the basis for firmer relations in the future. So you may run the gamut of your own business or any other. At every point that marks a transaction between concerns or individuals, you will find some way in which the letter rightly used, can play a profitable part.

In this first discourse we shall concern ourselves with the gaining of a general idea of the subject of Yoga, seeking its place in nature, its own character, its object in human evolution These lectures are intended to give an outline of Yoga, in order to prepare the student to take up, for practical purposes, the Yoga sutras of Patanjali, the chief treatise on Yoga. I have on hand, with my friend Bhagavan Das as collaborateur, a translation of these Sutras, with Vyasa's commentary, and a further commentary and elucidation written in the light of Theosophy. To prepare the student for the mastering of that more difficult task, these lectures were designed; hence the many references to Patanjali. They may, however, also serve to give to the ordinary lay reader some idea of the Science of sciences, and perhaps to allure a few towards its study.

At the most wretched hour between a black night and a wintry morning in the year 1777, Mrs. Dudgeon, of New Hampshire, is sitting up in the kitchen and general dwelling room of her farm house on the outskirts of the town of Websterbridge. She is not a prepossessing woman. No woman looks her best after sitting up all night; and Mrs. Dudgeon's face, even at its best, is grimly trenched by the channels into which the barren forms and observances of a dead Puritanism can pen a bitter temper and a fierce pride. She is an elderly matron who has worked hard and got nothing by it except dominion and detestation in her sordid home, and an unquestioned reputation for piety and respectability among her neighbors, to whom drink and debauchery are still so much more tempting than religion and rectitude, that they conceive goodness simply as self-denial. This conception is easily extended to others - denial, and finally generalized as covering anything disagreeable. So Mrs. Dudgeon, being exceedingly disagreeable, is held to be excee-dingly good. Short of flat felony, she enjoys complete license except for amiable weaknesses of any sort, and is consequently, without knowing it, the most licentious woman in the parish on the strength of never having broken the seventh commandment or missed a Sunday at the Presbyterian church.

Although Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) created a wide range of poetry, essays, and fairy tales (and one novel) in his brief, tragic life, he is perhaps best known as a dramatist. His witty, clever drama, populated by brilliant talkers skilled in the art of riposte and paradox, are still staples of the theatrical repertoire. An Ideal Husband revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards - providing, along the way, a wry commentary on the rarity of politicians who can claim to be ethically pure. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, an overbearing father, and a formidable femme fatale continually exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the play moving at a lively pace. Like most of Wilde's plays, this scintillating drawing-room comedy is wise, well-constructed, and deeply satisfying. An instant success at its 1895 debut, the play continues to delight audiences over one hundred years later. An Ideal Husband is a must-read book for Wilde fans, students of English literature, and anyone delighted by wit, urbanity, and timeless sophistication.

This is a cheerful and optimistic book on the pleasures to be found every day. Intended for those seeking the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the author points out that you should find the jewels strewn along the way instead.Marden offers twenty-six chapters of common-sense advice for the average man or woman who is overworked, striving and struggling to get ahead¿what he believes to be the American way of lifeWith chapters including "The Strain to Keep Up Appearances," and "Postponed Enjoyment," the author offers hopeful, inspiring, and illuminating messages and ideas, pointing out that happiness is more a condition of mind than of environment, and he offers the reader many opportunities to find joy in the common things found in daily life.Pointing out that there is a positive chemistry in a cheerful mind, so therefore health and happiness are related, Marden goes on to show how happiness can be cultivated. Here is an excerpt from this wonderful book to give you a feel for his style of writing and content. ¿The pursuit of education by a soul hungry for knowledge, yearning for intellectual growth, is the highest kind of pleasure, because it gives infinite satisfaction and infinite advantage.He is the greatest man whose supreme ambition is to make the most of his life, to enrich it by self-education, self-culture, self-development and helpful service, until every fiber of his being becomes responsive to every good and helpful influence in the entire range of his environment.What a joy people who have had the advantages of education and superior opportunities for culture and refinement may find in helping others who have been deprived of these opportunities, and whose souls hunger for the richer, fuller life to gain them.One of the grandest sights in the world is that of an adult seizing every opportunity to make up for the loss of early educational advantages, pouring his very soul into his spare moments and evenings, trying to make himself a larger, fuller, completer man."

Teaching methods comprise the principles and methods that are used by teachers to facilitate learning by students. Strategies are determined both by the subject matter to be taught and the characteristics of the author. Topics discussed include: - methods of reading the market- cutting losses short- the danger in overtrading- the recurrence of crises- the tipster- and much more. Arthur Crump's observations and commentary sound strikingly modern, and remain vital components of an intelligent understanding of fundamental concepts of the stock market. A great book and a must have for all investors and traders!