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The True Citizen: How to Become One

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The True Citizen: How to Become One

William Fisher Markwick and William Alexander Smith

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Citizenship is built in stages, the child, the youth, the man, the citizen, and Markwick's course walks each one in turn. Chapters pair character lessons with memory gems and lives like Audubon's for illustration. A civics of character from the golden age of the schoolroom. Growing up, treated as public work.

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115 chapters

  1. 1THE TRUE CITIZEN, HOW TO BECOME ONE
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4I. THE CHILD.
  5. 5II. THE YOUTH.
  6. 6III. THE MAN.
  7. 7IV. THE CITIZEN.
  8. 8I.
  9. 9MEMORY GEMS.
  10. 10II.
  11. 11MEMORY GEMS.
  12. 12JOHN JAMES AUDUBON.
  13. 13III.
  14. 14MEMORY GEMS.
  15. 15THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
  16. 16IV.
  17. 17MEMORY GEMS.
  18. 18DEAN STANLEY.

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