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EWJ-1861-06-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | have no bonnet, no shawl to escape in. But to a spirit like Sarah’s what mattered such lack of garments? Out she rushed—in her every-day dress of the thinnest materials, bare arms, and with a thin bonnet concealed in her pocket—out into the dark and almost unknown road, in the morning of December the 17th, one of the b... | 1 | 4,075 | 417 | 4,492 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | As Sarah had slept several hours, it was noon before she reached H—, about a mile from E—. As she passed the Plough Inn, she recognised young Hopeful’s cob standing at the door. Himself, however, she saw nowhere, and if he had seen her pass, scarcely would he have recognised her, believing that she would appear without... | 1 | 4,075 | 176 | 4,251 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The poorest poor Long for some moments in a weary life When they can know and feel that they have been Themselves the authors and the dealers out * Of some small blessings. Have been kind to such As needed kindness." | 1 | 4,075 | 52 | 4,127 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and to him novel questions. “Whether, as they had not the common sense and humanity to secure a valuable servant whilst they had the opportunity, by making it pleasant to her to stay, they thought she had so little sense as ever to return? or whether, when the magistrates on the county-bench learned the unfeeling treat... | 1 | 4,075 | 392 | 4,467 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Thus, Mr. Hardfist, through retaining Sarah’s clothes, and keeping her in great uncertainty for a month, prevented her seeking a fresh service. At last, however, her mother, having bought her a few necessary articles of clothing, the poor girl has gone to a place. It has been decided that it is wisest not even to sue H... | 1 | 4,075 | 311 | 4,386 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | fastened her out, and kept her out of doors in the cold, and being unfortunately very susceptible to the severe temperature, she is now enduring the miserable consequences of the occurrence.
Pretty pitfalls, indeed, are those old barbarous laws for the feet of the ignorant and thoughtless! We have a “Royal Society for... | 1 | 2,987 | 634 | 3,621 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Nay, nay, Charlotte, thou must not put her in there!" exclaimed her master, who was just then coming in from the fields to his tea. But in there Charlotte put her, and then, from a strong revulsion of | 1 | 4,075 | 49 | 4,124 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | feeling, rushed back into the kitchen, and folding her head in her apron, as she dropt into a chair, wept passionately. Meanwhile the dame had escaped out of her tub, and disappeared to her bedroom, whence she sent down word that "the baggage should be paid her wages and instantly dismissed!" The old master, however, d... | 1 | 3,115 | 605 | 3,720 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 26 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is all very excellent to turn the stream of these pleasure-seekers of the British slave marts into more rational channels, thereby lessening the drunkenness and debauchery, the inseparable attendants upon such annual gatherings, but I have always myself felt that this was only like “flinging,” as we say in the count... | 1 | 3,949 | 75 | 4,024 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_26 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | caps against the wind." Nothing will do but going to the well-head of those abominations—the repeal of the old degrading laws. None but rural residents, who dwell in the midst of these dark vestiges of a past age, know the vast mass of bitterest slavery which exists all the country over—a fostering mass, tainting the w... | 1 | 2,923 | 521 | 3,444 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | No striving sharp with human ill, No battling with the Highest Will: Endure thy sorrow and be still! | 1 | 3,949 | 25 | 3,974 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In silence suffer, knowing well A heavier grief thy Lord befall: A woe more terrible to tell.
And what were life bereft of pain? A waveless, changeless, tranquil main— Thou soon wouldst seek the storm again.
Better to stem the raging deep, Better thy ceaseless vigil keep, Than sink in calm, ignoble sleep.
Thy pain i... | 1 | 3,243 | 262 | 3,505 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Comme un pêcheur quand l'aube est près d'éclore, Court épier le réveil de l'aurore, Pour lire au ciel l'espoir d'un jour serein, Ta mère, enfant, rêve à ton beau destin ; Ange des cieux, que seras-tu sur terre, Homme de paix, ou bien homme de guerre Prête à l'autel, beau cavalier au bal, Brillant poète, orateur, généra... | 1 | 3,013 | 115 | 3,128 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 244
PRES D'UN BERCEAU. | 1 | 3,013 | 14 | 3,027 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Son œil le dit; il est né pour la guerre, De ses lauriers, comme je serai fière! Il est soldat! le voilà général! Il court! il vole! il devient maréchal! Le voyez-vous au sein de la bataille, Le front radieux, traverser la mitraille! L'ennemi fuit! tout cède à sa valeur! Sonnez, clairons! car mon fils est vainqueur! En... | 1 | 3,883 | 329 | 4,212 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | It has been affirmed that a sick bed is the best place from which to form a just estimate of life. But this, like some other reputed wise saws, may be questioned. At best it is only a half truth; for were we to estimate the affairs of this world when in health as we do when helplessly sick, pronouncing the whole vain a... | 1 | 3,825 | 161 | 3,986 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XL.—THE PORTRAIT.
CHAPTER V. | 1 | 3,825 | 10 | 3,835 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | ordinary mortal part: we must have a certain degree of interest in what seems measured out for us to do, else we labor not in a healthy, but in a sickly fashion: therefore I hold that although the interests of this life are as nothing when compared with those of eternity, yet, with reference to us and our life on earth... | 1 | 3,949 | 396 | 4,345 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the appearance of this new friend of the Doctor there was nothing very striking or remarkable; nothing, in short, to warn weak-minded people that they looked on a woman of genius. Her eyes were neither veiled and dreamy, nor flashing light on the beholder, neither did they seem, when their owner was silent, much unl... | 1 | 3,949 | 258 | 4,207 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | mind, and infinite superiority. By the fraternity of gentle rosebud-simplicity worshippers Mrs. Martyn was eyed askance; they could not affirm her to be a fool, neither was she learned nor pedantic; they therefore merely wondered how an otherwise sensible person could be so extremely foolish on some points. A second an... | 1 | 3,243 | 618 | 3,861 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Another element of satisfaction in my new prospects was the consciousness that my position in the household of Mrs. Martyn would be defined. I should be there not as an idle hanger-on, but as a necessary supplement to that lady, in the shape of a mechanical right hand. My services were stated, and so was the equivalent... | 1 | 3,825 | 109 | 3,934 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | copy as many towers after the model of the leaning one of Pisa as they felt inclined.
I was returning rather late one evening from Carrington, having made a few purchases previous to setting out on my journey, when I fell into a musing fit, and wandered back to Paris, Mrs. Bethune, and the dragon. I had not for months... | 1 | 2,923 | 623 | 3,546 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “But you see, Miss Emily, I may feel like a stranger, even in my own country.” “And what of Master Edward?” I asked; “how is he employed?” | 1 | 4,075 | 38 | 4,113 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “Do you not know?” responded Sarah, looking rather disconcerted. “How should I, when I have not heard from Mrs. Bethune for months?” was my answer. “Ay, I forgot. Well, Miss Emily, since you would not have him, the chattering magpie he met in Paris will soon be Mrs. Mansfield. Indeed, I am sure he is just off to London... | 1 | 3,627 | 522 | 4,149 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The husband of Mrs. Martyn professed among other good qualities the rare virtue of not only being aware of his wife's sense and powers of mind, but of actually acknowledging openly their existence, and this is an excellence seldom met with. He did not agree entirely with her opinions; but that was scarcely to be expect... | 1 | 4,075 | 152 | 4,227 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | felt for the other. ... They argued and disputed, defended and maintained the assailed points of difference, but never quarrelled about ... -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ... | 1 | 3,949 | 231 | 4,180 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | questions on which every one has a right to form his own judgment. Indeed, their debates usually ended in a good-humored laugh, on the part of Mr. Martyn, who declared his wife to be too many stages before her age, while she persisted that he was blinded by the dust of masculine prejudices.
Mrs. Martyn found in me an ... | 1 | 2,859 | 686 | 3,545 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It was the height of the London season, and the world of fashion was in its meridian splendour. Drawing-rooms, levées, the opera, fêtes, and exhibitions again divided the attention of the inhabitants of the West-end and of those strangers whose rank and opulence enabled them to participate in the gaiety. It was the cus... | 1 | 2,923 | 660 | 3,583 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | .
CHAPTER VI.
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EWJ-1861-06-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Cleveland took up one after another of the smaller objects which lay on the table, and pretended to examine them minutely, but his embarrassment could not be disguised, and I knew he scarcely saw the things he held in his hand. How strange, yet how real, are those clouds that interpose at times between two persons with... | 1 | 3,499 | 526 | 4,025 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Every one who has had any experience of social life knows that in nine cases out of ten the rendering of friendly ties is caused by some trivial circumstance in the first instance; and misunderstanding following upon misunderstanding, the feelings become wounded and embittered by supposed injuries, till resentment take... | 1 | 3,949 | 121 | 4,070 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | troublesome to manage, and hence his evident confusion. It was with bitterness of heart that I conceived myself forced to accept this solution.
" He is false, unworthy of estimation; with all his high qualities, poor in integrity, facile in feeling, now and for ever I banish him from my heart." With this flourish of s... | 1 | 2,987 | 610 | 3,597 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | We had reached the great pepper-box dignified by the name of National Gallery, and as we went in, a voice seemed to whisper that the picture called "a portrait" might be the Properzia he had said | 1 | 3,825 | 45 | 3,870 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | he would paint to show me his conception of the beautiful sculptress of Bologna; and were it so, I was prepared to see a faint resemblance to myself, unless with change of feeling the artist had changed his idea. As I approached the spot indicated to me by Mr. Martyn as that where the picture hung, I could almost have ... | 1 | 2,923 | 651 | 3,574 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On our way home from the Exhibition, Mr. Martyn had requested, as a special favor, that I would not mention to his wife, as he | 1 | 3,825 | 31 | 3,856 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | wished to give her a surprise, the wonderful resemblance that Mr. Cleveland's Properzia bore to me; and on my part I begged that he would not allude to the circumstance at all, as I should dislike exceedingly to be spoken of in conjunction with the picture.
"Very right, my dear," said Mr. Martyn, smiling: "were I to d... | 1 | 2,987 | 611 | 3,598 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “Not yet; I hear it is the portrait of a French girl who turned his head while he was in Paris last year.” “Very likely, as artists, like poets, cannot exist without a love affair,” said Mrs. Martyn. | 1 | 3,949 | 52 | 4,001 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | I felt excessively uncomfortable, for I saw Mr. Waddington and Mr. Martyn exchange significant looks; and the former, with a sly smile playing at the corners of his mouth, asked Mr. Carey, the young sculptor, if he believed the report to be true.
" I am sure I cannot tell; I only know that his friends had sad work to ... | 1 | 2,859 | 636 | 3,495 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Only fancy such a picture hung up in the Goldsmiths' Hall as an emblem of prosperity." | 1 | 3,949 | 21 | 3,970 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “ Or in the Fishmongers’, my dear madam,” said Mr. Waddington, half convulsed, for he was a great laugher; while the rest of the patrons of art joined in the merriment. I trembled lest the odious Mrs. Bullen might turn her black bead eyes on me, and find out that I resembled the young woman in the white pinafore. Clela... | 1 | 3,243 | 558 | 3,801 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - "Now, dear Miss Lindores," whispered a pretty, mirthful girl, who had kept close to my side, "we shall see how sublime the bear looks when sulking in her corner;" and then she exclaimed aloud, " Do come here, Mr. Cleveland; there has been a regular fight about you and your picture," and she turned a bouquet she held ... | 1 | 3,825 | 109 | 3,934 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | rather a forced smile, he obeyed the command of my young companion, who chanced to be an intimate friend of his. She began to give him so ludicrous an account of the dinner scene, asking him why he had not selected Mrs. Bullen for his "ideal of prosperity," that he could not refrain from laughing. "You see what it is t... | 1 | 2,987 | 594 | 3,581 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
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EWJ-1861-06-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | XLI.—FRUITS IN THEIR SEASON.
VIII.—OLD GOOSEBERRY AND HIS CURRENT RELATIONS.
WHILE every bright-tinted blossom still slept within its bark-built cell, and only the first faint streaks of spring green were yet dawning over the dark bare boughs of winter, from among the earliest of leaves crept forth one of the earlies... | 1 | 3,825 | 322 | 4,147 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | The botanical name ribes, shared in common by both gooseberries and currants, is an Arabic title originally bestowed on them through a mistake; for the description given by Arab botanists of the plant to which they had given this appellation, seemed to apply so well to our fruits that they were classed with it, and as ... | 1 | 3,825 | 395 | 4,220 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_43 |
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EWJ-1861-06-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and color very nearly resembles a grape-stone. When fully blown it is seen to consist of a green calyx, slightly tinged perhaps with dull red, and divided at the edge into five sepals; at the base of these rise five tiny colorless scales, which represent petals, and between these are the five stamens; the whole arrange... | 1 | 3,949 | 298 | 4,247 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Even at its best estate this blossom of the gooseberry had been so small and insignificant, making little more show while unopened than a leaf bud, and scarcely distinguishable in its lur among the leaves even when full blown, that, comparing it with the great and gorgeous flowers which kindle the cactus into stars of ... | 1 | 3,949 | 422 | 4,371 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | several species of ribes which have the prickles of the gooseberry, yet bear fruit resembling currants, being indeed the connecting link between the two. These are not easy for a botanist to class, for the presence or absence of prickles is the one feature by which the plants are commonly distinguished from each other,... | 1 | 3,371 | 579 | 3,950 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Foremost of this branch of the family stands the universally admired ribes rubrum, or red currant, the flowers and fruit of which grow in racemes, i.e., on little stalklets proceeding from the main stalk, and each supporting but a single berry, instead of branching so as to bear several, as in the case of the stalklets... | 1 | 3,949 | 133 | 4,082 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | or five times that height, the leaves, too, becoming at least twice as large. The fruit would seem to attain its greatest size in the north, for in Anderson's "Sketches of the Russian Empire," it is affirmed that on the Altaian Mountains the red currants grow to the size of an ordinary cherry. In the south of Europe it... | 1 | 4,075 | 392 | 4,467 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - The white currant is only a variety of the red produced by cultivation, and offering no further peculiarity than the color of the fruit, for the flavor varies according to the situation in which it is grown, sometimes being less sometimes more acid than its ruddy relative. A pink variety is also sometimes grown, and ... | 1 | 4,075 | 272 | 4,347 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the London market than currants or any other colour. In Scandinavia it is yet more esteemed than with us, and the jelly is considered there to give an additional charm to whisky and water, as lemon is added to their grog by south Britons. In the north of Russia, where it grows wild abundantly, the love for it is shared... | 1 | 2,923 | 735 | 3,658 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 48 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | to market throughout Germany bear about the same relation to our fruit as a Shetland pony does to a Barclay's dray-horse. Though unmentioned by ancient French botanists, it grows wild, too, in various parts of France, but the contemptuous notice of it in the "Nouveau Du Hamel," sums up as the amount of its usefulness t... | 1 | 2,859 | 751 | 3,610 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | rather puzzling to translate, and can scarcely claim to be, even in English, "very good and very beautiful;"' indeed, the practice of choosing such slang-like denominations as figure not unfrequently among the three hundred varieties recognised by English growers, has been condemned by the better class of our gardeners... | 1 | 3,949 | 192 | 4,141 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is most probable that the French judgment of gooseberries is influenced in some measure by the same cause which led the fox to his well-known conclusion concerning another fruit; for in the native specimens, the magnum and the bonum seem never to be found in combination; the one figured in Du Hamel as the largest, t... | 1 | 3,691 | 510 | 4,201 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | climate should not be brought to all the perfection of which it is capable; and the Danish Government at least are so sensible of its merits, that gooseberry bushes are supplied to gardeners from the national nurseries in Denmark at a cost of little more than a half-penny per plant, in order to encourage its culture. I... | 1 | 3,949 | 98 | 4,047 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The barberry, respite, and gooseberry too, Look now, to be planted as other things do;" but does not appear to have been held in very high esteem, for Gerard, in 1597, after mentioning that the tender leaves are good for salad—information of some value to those who could not, like Queen Catherine, send to Holland when... | 1 | 3,243 | 596 | 3,839 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | dimensions, for one at Duffield, known to be at least forty-six years old, measured twelve yards in circumference, and two plants trained against a wall in the garden of Sir Joseph Banks in Chesterfield, each extended upwards of fifty feet from one extremity to the other, and afforded several pecks of fruit annually.
... | 1 | 4,075 | 282 | 4,357 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Of course the "beauty" is not intended to "blush unseen" when the perfection so assiduously striven for shall at length have been attained, and each owner of promising fruit therefore enters his name as an intending competitor at some neighboring "Show," and subscribes a small amount weekly towards the providing of the... | 1 | 4,075 | 383 | 4,458 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | plant; who devotes his leisure to a recreation necessitating the study of vegetable life and its laws, and who, leaving cruel or debasing sports to workmen of lower tastes, only vies with his fellows in the innocent and useful rivalry as to which can bring to greatest perfection one of the products of their native land... | 1 | 2,923 | 545 | 3,468 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In the month of February we acknowledged, among our short notices, the receipt of a book which, however, deserves that we should return to it, and devote more space than was then at our command to its very interesting contents. "Our Exemplars" likewise demands a peculiarly grateful notice at our hands, inasmuch as Lord... | 1 | 2,923 | 607 | 3,530 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_53 |
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XLII.—A COLORED LADY LECTURER. | 1 | 4,075 | 23 | 4,098 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Nancy Remond is a woman possessing every characteristic which can adorn or ennoble womanhood, combined with the most indomitable energy. We were all trained to habits of industry, with a thorough knowledge of those domestic duties which particularly mark the genuine New England woman. With no private means, it was also... | 1 | 2,859 | 627 | 3,486 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | occupy but one room. The many disadvantages can be seen at a glance. It did not matter to this committee, who merely reflected the public sentiment of the community, in what district a colored child might live; it must walk in the heat of summer, and the cold of winter, to this one school. But more than all this, it wa... | 1 | 4,011 | 453 | 4,464 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "In such a community it is always easy to call forth this feeling as the occasion may require. It is always to be felt in a greater or less degree. Our parents decided we should not enter an inferior exclusive public school, and in a short time our whole family removed to Newport, Rhode Island. Here we met the same dif... | 1 | 3,949 | 198 | 4,147 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "Separate churches and schools for colored persons are an immense disadvantage to the descendants of the African race, and a great drawback to their elevation. They are based completely on prejudice against color, the legitimate offspring of American slavery, and it is to be regretted that many well-wishers to the colo... | 1 | 3,819 | 446 | 4,265 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | - "In the meantime we had returned to our native town. I had now reached an age when my services were more required at home, as every member of the family was expected to contribute a share towards the general whole. We left Newport with some regret. The colored population was of an elevated character, and for industry... | 1 | 4,203 | 162 | 4,365 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | judge could not deprive me. A book once obtained, I could peruse it with pleasure and profit. When some friend would play on some favorite musical instrument, or sing a song, no negro hater could rob me of the pleasure I enjoyed. When some abolitionist who had buried all prejudice against color which education and habi... | 1 | 3,563 | 473 | 4,036 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Previous to the year 1829, no decided effort had been made in behalf of the slave population. Now, a young man, a native of the State of Massachusetts, essentially a man of the people, demands the immediate emancipation of every slave, as the right of the victim, and the duty of the master. His clarion voice is heard,... | 1 | 3,825 | 153 | 3,978 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | mingled the name of that now venerated friend of the oppressed, William L. Garrison. As years rolled on, I became more and more interested in every effort made in behalf of the enslaved. The germ of a glorious reform was now planted, and had taken root; the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded, based upon principl... | 1 | 3,115 | 582 | 3,697 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Miss Remond has a sister, Mrs. Putnam, who came to England as a first-class passenger in an English steam-vessel, highly subsidized by the British Government for the transport of the mails. The captain, with the concurrence of the owners, subjected this lady and her family to the indignity of being refused places at th... | 1 | 3,949 | 74 | 4,023 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | public table, merely on the ground that American passengers objected to associate with persons of color. This unworthy submission to foreign prejudice was denounced by Lord Brougham in Parliament, and was the subject of indignant comment in many of our journals. We are glad to record that on her return, in a mail-packe... | 1 | 4,203 | 174 | 4,377 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | A SUMMARY OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, AND REPORTS.
Self-Culture. A Practical Answer to the Questions—"What to Learn?" "How to Learn?" "When to Learn?" By John R. Beard, D.D. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
This is the first volume of Dr. Beard's manuals for the self-taught, and is full of genial advice and practical suggestions ... | 1 | 4,203 | 486 | 4,689 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS. | 1 | 4,203 | 10 | 4,213 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | tion you can procure. When the opportunity exists, girls should be conducted through all the discipline of the highest university learning no less than boys."
And again:—
"Lamentable are our social deficiencies in regard to female education. In schools a little is done, but for those who have not been at school what ... | 1 | 3,115 | 668 | 3,783 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This is an admirable essay in favor of early closing and early payment of wages, based as much upon economical and sanitary views as upon spiritual and religious. Its arguments are sound and unanswerable, backed by the experience of many large firms, such as | 1 | 4,075 | 55 | 4,130 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Spottiswoodes, the well known printers, Hitchcock of St. Paul's Churchyard, Barclay, Perkins, and Co., and others who have in some instances for ten years past given their men the Saturday half-holiday with advantage to employers and employed.
Mr. George Spottiswoode states as follows:—
“We close at two o'clock in su... | 1 | 3,051 | 631 | 3,682 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “It will be seen from these statements, made by men who are themselves engaged in business, and have witnessed the working of both systems, that the early payment not only wards off an evil by which the working man might otherwise be ruined, but that it also tends in a direct manner to | 1 | 3,949 | 58 | 4,007 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | advance his moral and temporal interests, to make him a better and happier member of society, and to add a considerable percentage to his limited means.”
We heartily commend this essay to general perusal. It rescues the movement from the commercial prejudice which usually surrounds it, and advances sound religious and... | 1 | 4,139 | 384 | 4,523 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | This is a book which we can cordially recommend as a store of tender delicate thought and deep earnest feeling; we wish one half the volumes of poetry so called of the present day contained as much true poetry as this does; we wish many of our landscape painters had one half the power with which Madame de Gasparin can ... | 1 | 4,075 | 215 | 4,290 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The Pearl of Orr's Island. By Mrs. Beecher Stowe.
Intense as was the interest and pathetic as was the story of “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” the remembrance of the pain and the wrong which it so vividly depicted has made us shrink from its reperusal, almost from its recollection; and though “The Minister's Wooing” was in many ... | 1 | 3,435 | 499 | 3,934 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On Food. By Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S. First Course. Price 1s. These lectures, delivered at the South Kensington Museum, exhibit "in a popular form the scientific principles by which the supply of food to the human system is regulated." Dr. Lankester in the lecture on "Animal Food" endorses Mrs. Baines's opinion, as... | 1 | 4,203 | 126 | 4,329 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | farinaceous food. The *Lancet* for January 13th, 1861, has a long letter on "Infant Alimentation," by this lady, to which we refer those among our readers interested in the subject.
-- **On the Natural Period of Suckling, and on the Mode of Rearing Infants by Artificial Suckling.** By Frederick J. Brown, M.D.
Dr. Bro... | 1 | 2,859 | 537 | 3,396 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Origin, Progress, and Annual Report for 1860 of the Infirmary for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, 26, Margaret Street, Cavendish Square. Instituted 1847.
The great need of this Infirmary is shown by the simple fact that the attendances during the year amounted to 8,840. It was established in 1847, upon the comp... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,094 | 6,812 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Free States and the Slave-holding States would be inevitable.' These crowing champions burk altogether the fact that it is the South which has cast off the North, and that principle has little to do with the matter on either side.
_Secession, Concession, and Self-possession. Which?_ Walker, Wise, and Co., Boston, Mass... | 1 | 4,203 | 155 | 4,358 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | (As these pages are intended for general discussion, the Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.)
_To the Editor of the English Woman's Journal._
Ladies,
Much surprise has been occasionally expressed that among the many women who would enjoy entering the medical profession, and the man... | 1 | 4,203 | 476 | 4,679 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XLIV.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,203 | 9 | 4,212 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | social difficulties had been overstated. The work was not too much for any moderately healthy person. Some of the doctors were friendly, none offered opposition, and the students were willing to treat me with respect and courtesy. After three months spent in nursing—during which time I went into both surgical and medic... | 1 | 2,987 | 771 | 3,758 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LADIES, Permit me to make a few remarks on the subject of a letter in your Journal for May, namely, the Medical Diaconate. | 1 | 3,949 | 33 | 3,982 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 67 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
Gentlemen,—
I am a working woman, and have been employed in a factory for the last twenty years. I have read with interest the articles in your Journal on the subject of the Factory Acts, and I wish to say that I think the working classes have not had justice done them i... | 1 | 3,949 | 225 | 4,174 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_67 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The medical profession are agreeable to the employment of medica missionaries as well in England as in foreign countries. Furthermore, they do not object to the practice of two professions by one individual, provided that each profession be learned thoroughly, and diplomas or testimonial letters be received in each pro... | 1 | 3,825 | 163 | 3,988 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LADIES, I have been much interested in a number of your Journal that has just fallen in my way. You evidently perceive the simple fact that many a woman feels that what we often need is not work but money. Some one has compared money to the grease that lubricates the wheels of a carriage. If you have sufficient, the jo... | 1 | 3,825 | 331 | 4,156 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
LADIES, Every lady who pays her tradespeople promptly, and takes some interest in their welfare and affairs, must be struck with the amount of misery inflicted by the non-payment of accounts by so-called fine ladies and gentlemen, and other persons of all classes, who ord... | 1 | 3,825 | 205 | 4,030 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal. | 1 | 3,825 | 11 | 3,836 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 68 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | I remain, Ladies, yours, G. O.
April 30th, 1861. | 1 | 3,825 | 23 | 3,848 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_68 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | ladies and gentlemen, who, forgetting the old proverb, “Be just before you're generous,” lavished their money, either on the clamorous beggars who offended their eyes and ears by their importunity, or on their own indulgences, forgetting or neglecting to pay their just debts.
So many instances of this have come under ... | 1 | 3,825 | 301 | 4,126 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LADIES, I beg to inform your readers that a plan has been started for founding two annuities in the Governesses' Benevolent Institution in memory of the late Rev. David Laing; one to be filled by a blind, the other by a deaf lady, selected from the list of candidates for the annuities of the Institution. Those who best... | 1 | 3,825 | 266 | 4,091 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | The civil war in America has begun in earnest. The Free States have voted millions of dollars, and sent forth thousands of soldiers amid tumults of applause. The State of New York has 25,000 men in movement, besides a home guard of 20,000. The northern papers speak confidently of an army of 100,000 to be ready by the 1... | 1 | 3,825 | 175 | 4,000 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
... | 1 | 3,825 | 12 | 3,837 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_69 |
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