Macmillan's Magazine, 36. köideMacmillan and Company, 1877 |
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Page 48
... kind of religiosity seized her , and this " abominable spiritual rigidity , " as she calls it , confirmed all the gloomy predisposi- tions of her mind . She learned a good deal , mastering Latin , French , and Italian in good time ; and ...
... kind of religiosity seized her , and this " abominable spiritual rigidity , " as she calls it , confirmed all the gloomy predisposi- tions of her mind . She learned a good deal , mastering Latin , French , and Italian in good time ; and ...
Page 49
... establishing the grand truth that social affairs proceed according to general laws , no less than natural phenomena of every kind " ( Autob . ii . 245 ) . E Harriet Martineau was not of the class of writers , Harriet Martineau . 49.
... establishing the grand truth that social affairs proceed according to general laws , no less than natural phenomena of every kind " ( Autob . ii . 245 ) . E Harriet Martineau was not of the class of writers , Harriet Martineau . 49.
Page 50
... kind , and she could only secure a real knowledge of what was best worth saying by in- tercourse with those who had a better point of view for a survey of the social state of England than could be found in a provincial town like Norwich ...
... kind , and she could only secure a real knowledge of what was best worth saying by in- tercourse with those who had a better point of view for a survey of the social state of England than could be found in a provincial town like Norwich ...
Page 51
... kind of common sense , which is more often the gift of clever women than of clever men . If she is masculine , she is , like Mrs. Colonel Poyntz , in one of Bulwer's novels , " masculine in a womanly way . " There is a real spirit of ...
... kind of common sense , which is more often the gift of clever women than of clever men . If she is masculine , she is , like Mrs. Colonel Poyntz , in one of Bulwer's novels , " masculine in a womanly way . " There is a real spirit of ...
Page 53
... kind to herself , in favour of the extreme Anti - Slavery agitators . And for thirty years she never slackened her sympathy nor her energetic action on English public opinion , in this most vital matter of her time . She was guided not ...
... kind to herself , in favour of the extreme Anti - Slavery agitators . And for thirty years she never slackened her sympathy nor her energetic action on English public opinion , in this most vital matter of her time . She was guided not ...
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Page 380 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in— glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 295 - They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad: so may my husband.
Page 4 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.
Page 296 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 296 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 216 - A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire.
Page 493 - M'ôter, pour faire bien, du grenier de céans Cette longue lunette à faire peur aux gens, Et cent brimborions dont l'aspect importune; Ne point aller chercher ce qu'on fait dans la lune, Et vous mêler un peu de ce qu'on fait chez vous, Où nous voyons aller tout sens dessus dessous.
Page 493 - Saturne, et Mars, dont je n'ai point affaire; Et dans ce vain savoir, qu'on va chercher si loin, On ne sait comme va mon pot, dont j'ai besoin. Mes gens à la science aspirent pour vous plaire , Et tous ne font rien moins que ce qu'ils ont à faire; Raisonner est l'emploi de toute ma maison; Et le raisonnement en bannit la raison.
Page 4 - Christian charity's sake, to admonish us of the same in writing ; and we, upon our honour and fidelity, do promise unto him satisfaction from the mouth of God, that is, from his holy scriptures, or else reformation of that which he shall prove to be amiss.
Page 375 - But see, his face is black and full of blood, His eye-balls further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man; His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued...