# Principle and Practice: The Orphan Family

Author: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23131

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Principle+and+Practice%3A+The+Orphan+Family+Martineau&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Let none sit down to read this little tale, whose interest can only be excited by the relation of uncommon circumstances, of romantic adventures, of poetical perplexities, or of picturesque difficulties. No beauties of this kind will be here found. I propose to give a plain, unaffected narrative of the exertions made by a family of young persons, to render themselves and each other happy and useful in the world. The circumstances in which they are placed are so common, that we see persons similarly situated every day: they meet with no adventures, and their difficulties, and the remedies they procure for them, are of so homely a description, as to exclude every exertion of poetical talent...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principle-and-practice-the-orphan-family-23131/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principle-and-practice-the-orphan-family-23131/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principle-and-practice-the-orphan-family-23131/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principle-and-practice-the-orphan-family-23131/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/principle-and-practice-the-orphan-family-23131/chapters/5/index.md)