Notes of a Professional ExileCentury Company, 1895 - 164 من الصفحات |
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... appear to be neuters . Their womanly character is rather negative than positive . Now I think that the feminine nature should be as distinct and posi- tive as the male . The female mind should be as strong after its kind as the male's ...
... appear to be neuters . Their womanly character is rather negative than positive . Now I think that the feminine nature should be as distinct and posi- tive as the male . The female mind should be as strong after its kind as the male's ...
الصفحة 10
... appears . Well - bred women are often rude , but their rudeness is of the thought rather than of the speech or behavior . It is perhaps near- ly as unpleasant to the recipient as the more outspoken sort , but of course it is more ...
... appears . Well - bred women are often rude , but their rudeness is of the thought rather than of the speech or behavior . It is perhaps near- ly as unpleasant to the recipient as the more outspoken sort , but of course it is more ...
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... appear always to have be- fore their eyes . The more I see of English women here , the more sure I am that this is true . I observe it not only on com- paring them with the women of our own country , but on com- paring them with those ...
... appear always to have be- fore their eyes . The more I see of English women here , the more sure I am that this is true . I observe it not only on com- paring them with the women of our own country , but on com- paring them with those ...
الصفحة 19
... grandmother ? At this commencement the young ladies all read essays , and I will admit that they were not so much frightened as they should have been . Apart from any objection to their appear- ing at all , I objected to the character of ...
... grandmother ? At this commencement the young ladies all read essays , and I will admit that they were not so much frightened as they should have been . Apart from any objection to their appear- ing at all , I objected to the character of ...
الصفحة 21
... itself in rude- ness . English vulgarity , on the other hand , generally appears under the form of undue con- formity . I cannot describe to you how strong my sense is of the prevalence of this quality among many of the English 21.
... itself in rude- ness . English vulgarity , on the other hand , generally appears under the form of undue con- formity . I cannot describe to you how strong my sense is of the prevalence of this quality among many of the English 21.
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الصفحة 114 - Hath not a slave-holder hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as an abolitionist is ? If you prick them, do they not bleed ? if you tickle them do they not laugh ? if you poison them do they not die ? if you wrong them shall they not avenge?
الصفحة 47 - I WRITE this to you in the deepest sorrow: the youngest daughter of my friend Fundanus is dead! I have never seen a more cheerful and more lovable girl, or one who better deserved to have enjoyed a long, I had almost said an immortal, life ! She was scarcely fourteen, and yet there was in her a wisdom far beyond her years, a matronly gravity united with girlish sweetness and virgin bashfulness. With what an endearing fondness did she hang on her father's neck...
الصفحة 47 - O melancholy, untimely, loss, too truly ! She was engaged to an excellent young man; the wedding-day was fixed, and we were all invited. How our joy has been turned into sorrow ! I cannot express in words the inward pain I felt when I heard Fundanus himself (as grief is ever finding out fresh circumstances to aggravate its affliction) ordering the money he had intended laying out upon...
الصفحة iii - IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON SOCIAL LIFE " "ESSAYS AT HOME AND ELSEWHERE
الصفحة 149 - I rather like the young man they have here; he is so completely and necessarily a clergyman. He is just as much a parson on the street as in church — in his face, I mean; his clothes have nothing to do with it.
الصفحة 150 - But one cannot h elp wondering by what methods of breeding and education such results were produced. What kind of a boy was he, and especially what kind of a baby ? I venture to say that he had not been five minutes in existence before he began with : " Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us,
الصفحة 47 - I have never seen a more cheerful and more lovable girl, or one who better deserved to have enjoyed a long, I had almost said an immortal, life ! She was scarcely fourteen, and yet there was in her a wisdom far beyond her years, a matronly gravity united with girlish sweetness and virgin bashfulness. With what an endearing fondness did she hang on her father's neck ! How affectionately and modestly she used to greet us his friends ! With what a tender and deferential regard she used to treat her...
الصفحة 82 - I again observed that he put salt on his meat; this time, however, he added a little pepper.