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EWJ-1861-06-01 | 69 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | XLV.—PASSING EVENTS. PUBLIC AND POLITICAL. | 1 | 3,825 | 16 | 3,841 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_69 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The usual May meetings have been held during the past month, and have given an account of the stewardship of their principally revenues. The London City Mission employed 389 missionaries, who paid 1,815,332 visits, of which 287,799 were to sick and dying. Of these last, 7,383 died, and nearly 2000 of these deathbeds in... | 1 | 4,075 | 179 | 4,254 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Employment of Women.—Viscount Raynham asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, in order to extend the useful employment of women it would, in his opinion, be advisable to levy a tax upon all men employed in linendrapers', and other shops of that description?—The Chancellor of the Exchequer:—Sir, I do not at all k... | 1 | 3,435 | 734 | 4,169 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 70 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. | 1 | 4,075 | 9 | 4,084 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_70 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | A **conversazione** was held recently at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Alers Hankey, in Harley Street, in aid of the Institution for the Employment of Needlewomen, which was set on foot about a year ago in Lamb's Conduit Street, and has now its head-quarters in a more commodious building in Hinde Street, Manchest... | 1 | 2,987 | 1,091 | 4,078 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 71 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | 1. Is it desirable to give a more defined place in the system of the Church to the ministrations of women in works of Christian charity, and, if so, under what restrictions should such functions be exercised? 2. Is it expedient to alter the Twenty-ninth Canon, and, if so, what alterations should be made in it? | 1 | 3,949 | 71 | 4,020 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_71 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | With regard to the first question, the Bishop refers them for information to “Bingham,” and to an article on Deaconesses in a late number of the _Quarterly Review_. With regard to the second, his Lordship suggests the following points:—
1. The origin of the present restriction. 2. The distinction between the natural a... | 1 | 4,203 | 149 | 4,352 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_72 |
EWJ-1861-06-01 | 72 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | FRENCH GALLERY, PALL MALL.—Mr. Gambart has on view at the French Gallery fine portraits of Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, painted by Winterhalter. Both the pictures are of the size of life, and good likenesses. In addition to these portraits, Mr. Gambart has also on view the well-known... | 1 | 3,435 | 780 | 4,215 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-06-01_page_72 |
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EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 3 | PUBLISHED MONTHLY. | 1 | 4,203 | 9 | 4,212 | B2C0R3 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 4 | Vol. IV. September 1, 1859. No. 19. | 1 | 4,203 | 20 | 4,223 | B2C0R4 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 5 | I.—INSANITY; ITS CAUSE AND CURE.
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The following is a brief abstract of a lecture delivered by Dr. J. C. Bucknill, at the Royal College of Physicians, on the 18th ult., on the subject of Insanity, its cause and cure. The lecturer said that the question of insanity was one of great importance, and one which had been m... | 1 | 4,203 | 350 | 4,553 | B2C0R5 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 6 | We are all more or less acquainted with some of the forms of physical disorder. Few among us but have witnessed the attacks and watched the advances of fatal bodily disease, and beheld the awful mystery of dissolution. When the living principle withdraws from its fellowship with the clay, we know that close following c... | 1 | 4,203 | 371 | 4,574 | B2C0R6 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | text | 7 | The reports of the Commissioners in Lunacy tell us that the disease is actually on the increase. When in 1831 Hanwell was built for five hundred patients, it was supposed to be large enough to meet all the wants of the county. But, two years later it was full; after another two years it was reported to contain one hund... | 1 | 4,203 | 84 | 4,287 | B2C0R7 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 0 | title | 2 | ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL. | 1 | 4,203 | 11 | 4,214 | B2C0R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 8 | Vol. IV.
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We are all more physical disorder and watched the awful mystery of from its fellowship ruption will sw mortal frame when submit without re condition of human witness, than dis ration and extinc If the malady t manner make the length the mente entertained, and provokes passion and fearful shrieks; it ta... | 4 | 1,804 | 218 | 2,022 | B2C1R8 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 1 | text | 9 | VOL. IV. | 1 | 315 | 5 | 320 | B2C1R9 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 1 | 2 | 4 | text | 10 | No. 19. | 1 | 315 | 6 | 321 | B2C4R10 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_1 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | two years it had to be enlarged for three hundred more; and at this time (Colney Hatch having been meanwhile constructed for the reception of one thousand two hundred lunatic paupers belonging to the same county) Hanwell contains upwards of one thousand patients. Colney Hatch was opened in 1851; within a period of less... | 1 | 3,691 | 486 | 4,177 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 2 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The causes of insanity must be sought for in the social influences of the age, operating both physically and morally; the moral and physical causes acting and re-acting upon each other. In order to comprehend all the causes of insanity we have only to name two influences, the excessive luxury and the excessive poverty ... | 1 | 4,075 | 179 | 4,254 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_2 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 3 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Of all sanitary conditions that of a sane mind is surely the most important. And in what does a perfectly healthy mind consist? In the vigor of the reasoning faculties, in the subordination of the passions and emotions, in the supremacy of the judgment, in the balance of all the powers. And if these things constitute t... | 1 | 3,949 | 112 | 4,061 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_3 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Lunacy. Undoubtedly there is, just as there is a good deal of dyspepsia and other disease which does not disable people from going about their ordinary business, but which is the source of daily suffering to those afflicted with it, and to all with whom they come in contact. And as the presence of general unhealthiness... | 1 | 4,075 | 265 | 4,340 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 4 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | When the Committee of 1827 was moved for, a frightful state of things was revealed. "Bad as was the evidence then given," says Lord Shaftesbury, "I do not think that it stated the real condition of things at all equal to what it was in reality, for I am certain that I can state that I saw and heard things far exceeding... | 1 | 4,075 | 417 | 4,492 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_4 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 5 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | condition. It was known to one or two physicians of the Royal College who visited the place once a year; but they said that although they saw these things they could not amend them." Dr. Conolly has said, "It is astonishing to witness humane English physicians daily contemplating helpless insane patients bound hand and... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,443 | 7,161 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_5 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | very great; his arms confined with wrist-locks, his legs with leg-locks, and the strappings so tight that he could neither turn nor move. On liberating him he was very feeble, unable to stand, with pulse scarcely perceptible, and feet dark red and cold, having been under confinement in this way for four days and nights... | 1 | 4,075 | 425 | 4,500 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 6 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Comparing the food supplied in workhouses and asylums, there is evidence in recent reports to show that the asylums are incomparably the best dieted; in the workhouses the ordinary diet table is of course arranged in such a way as to hold out no inducement to a pauper to remain in the workhouse. In the county asylum, t... | 1 | 4,075 | 265 | 4,340 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_6 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | cessary connection with mental exertion on the part of the patient, we consider that the duties of that officer will require on his part great judgment and discretion in their discharge; so that while the consolations of religion are fully afforded, the peculiar mental condition of the patients will not be lost sight o... | 1 | 4,075 | 91 | 4,166 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 7 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | the patients.
The state of Pauper Lunatics in our Workhouses is still deplorable. On the 1st of July, 1858, they numbered seven thousand six hundred and sixty-six, close upon one thousand more than they numbered only the year before. Most of these unhappy beings are feeble and diseased in body as well as in mind, and,... | 1 | 3,243 | 556 | 3,799 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_7 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | workhouses in England and Wales, somewhat more than a tenth are provided with separate lunatic and idiot wards, and these are ill-suited to the purpose, generally gloomy, ill-ventilated, small, and utterly comfortless; in some instances there being no tables, the patients are compelled to take their meals upon their kn... | 1 | 3,051 | 585 | 3,636 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 8 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | How great is the debt which humanity owes to those who have vindicated, and are still vindicating, the character of the divine Author of our being, and the majesty and universality of those laws by which he governs his moral offspring: to those who have | 1 | 4,075 | 60 | 4,135 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_8 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | taught, and are still teaching us, that the scourge of pestilence is no outpouring of vindictive wrath, but the product of our own folly in the breaking of some beneficial law of our being, to which the attaching penalty is appointed to bring us to obedience. This great truth has now been recognised in the treatment of... | 1 | 4,203 | 459 | 4,662 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 9 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Undoubtedly, extreme poverty is the most fertile source of mental as it is of bodily disease. Its physical and moral influences tend to impair at once the mental and bodily powers. The immense number of pauper lunatics, and the great proportion of incurables among them, establish the fact. We do not mean hard labor and... | 1 | 4,203 | 239 | 4,442 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_9 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 10 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | weaker as regards physical energy, and they are generally, as consequence, more excitable. Those who have had to do with criminal or pauper children drawn from this class, testify to their frightful excitability. The girls are especially wild in this respect, and the young women of the same class are the terror of work... | 1 | 2,923 | 686 | 3,609 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_10 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 11 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | to the same source, while much physical disease can readily be referred to unsanitary mental conditions.
We come now to another class of causes, namely, those engendered by the excessive luxury of the age. Springing directly from this is one very fertile source of mental disease, over-work of the brain. Again to quote... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,312 | 7,030 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_11 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 12 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | are given up to an aimlessness equally pernicious. To go to the root of the matter, the nurture and education of most women are as elevating as possible. Their physical development is uncared for, if not positively retarded. A species of hot-house culture is forced upon the mind; a certain circle of accomplishments mus... | 1 | 2,923 | 610 | 3,533 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_12 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 13 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of female education. What wonder if the course of training and the mode of life we reprobate should sow and cherish the seeds of insanity. Over-excitement and aimlessness, are two of the most unsanitary conditions to which the human mind can be subjected, and it is easy to trace to them restlessness, melancholy, and te... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,274 | 6,992 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_13 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is the work of the ladies of England to inaugurate an age of such strong-mindedness, by using their influence to have the young of their own sex and rank brought under a more strengthening system of education. To discourage mere showy accomplishments, not by cramming with Greek and Latin instead of with music and It... | 1 | 4,203 | 202 | 4,405 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 4 | [In our next article we hope to bring before our readers some details of the results of modern medical science as practised in our large asylums.]
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EWJ-1859-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | text | 6 | It is now seven years since the book appeared which bears the above title; a curious composite book compiled by three editors, out of autobiographical notes, diaries, letters to and from the subject of the memoir, and communications from themselves and from various other people in different parts of the United States. ... | 1 | 4,203 | 262 | 4,465 | B0C1R6 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 14. LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI. | 1 | 4,203 | 17 | 4,220 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_14 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | title | 3 | .
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EWJ-1859-09-01 | 14 | 0 | 1 | title | 5 | II.—LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI.
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EWJ-1859-09-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of these lines said to him (with a fearless confidence in the truth) "Mrs. _____ does not like the manner in which you dealt with your book; she wishes it had been treated with more completeness," A flash of light passed across his face and lingered in his eyes, and it is impossible to describe the ardor with which he ... | 1 | 2,987 | 684 | 3,671 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 15 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Again, English readers blame her for egotism and conceit. It must be granted that her simplicity in this matter was as singular as her self-esteem. Her opinion of her own powers, while yet she | 1 | 4,075 | 42 | 4,117 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_15 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 16 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | lived in America, and before she came under the chastening, subduing influence of intercourse with European minds and European problems, is expressed in her letters and diaries with a depth of quiet conviction against which blame or remorse would probably have been powerless in life, and which certainly must be accepte... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,311 | 7,029 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_16 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 17 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | other circumstances, might have ripened thought, was turned to learn the thoughts of others.
The impressiveness and impulsiveness of her character was developed at a very early age, and the monotony of her bookish and solitary life was for some months interrupted by the appearance of an English lady in the neighbourho... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,296 | 7,014 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_17 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | characteristic trait in her personal appearance. In conversation she had already at that early age begun to distinguish herself, and made much the same impression in society that she did in after years. This conversational talent was, according to the unanimous testimony of all her compeers, certainly her most decided ... | 1 | 3,243 | 539 | 3,782 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 18 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | it Margaret possessed, in a greater degree than any person I ever knew, the power of so magnetising others, when she wished, by the power of her mind, that they would lay open to her all the secrets of their nature. She had an infinite curiosity to know individuals—not the vulgar curiosity which seeks to find out the c... | 1 | 3,465 | 159 | 3,624 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_18 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of a certain fixed development, and having a profound personal unity, which the ages of eternity might develop, but could not exhaust. I know not if she would have stated her faith in these terms, but some such conviction appeared in her constant endeavor to see and understand the germinal principle, the special charac... | 1 | 3,825 | 447 | 4,272 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 19 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Attracted by the wild bugle-call of Thomas Carlyle, she commenced in 1832 the study of German, and in three months from the commencement of this study we find her reading with ease the masterpieces of that literature. Within the year she had read Goethe's 'Faust,' 'Tasso,' 'Iphigenia,' 'Hermann and Dorothea,' 'Elective... | 1 | 3,825 | 344 | 4,169 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_19 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | But this anxiety and overwork produced a terrible feeling in her head, and in 1835 a distressing weight on the top of the brain seized her, and without intermission for nine long days and nights all was agony, fever, and pain. Her father, habitually so sparing in tokens of affection, was led by his anxiety to express h... | 1 | 3,243 | 514 | 3,757 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 20 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "The death of her father brought in its train a disappointment as keen as Margaret could well have been called on to bear. For two years and more she had been buoyed up to intense effort by the promise of a visit to Europe for the end of completing her culture. And as the means of equitably remunerating her parents for... | 1 | 3,349 | 177 | 3,526 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_20 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 21 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | it * The new year opens upon me under circumstances inexpressibly sad. I must make the last great sacrifice, and, apparently, for evil to me and mine. Life, as I look forward, presents a scene of struggle and privation only. Yet * I hate not a jot of heart, * though much of hope. * My difficulties are not to be compare... | 1 | 2,987 | 822 | 3,809 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_21 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | their chief reading being De Wette and Herder. Fortunately for Margaret, she received a favorable offer to become, in the spring of 1837, a principal teacher in the Green Street School at Providence, Rhode Island, where, for a thousand dollars a year, she was to teach the elder girls for four hours a day, choosing her ... | 1 | 3,051 | 541 | 3,592 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 22 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But in a book or journal she gave a very imperfect impression of herself, and when circumstances again compelled her to choose an employment that should pay money, she consulted her own genius, as well as the wishes of her friends, by opening a class for conversation. Twenty-five persons responded to the appeal, and th... | 1 | 3,583 | 85 | 3,668 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_22 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | rooms in West Street, and the circle thus formed soon comprised some of the most agreeable and intelligent women to be found in Boston and its neighbourhood.
An idea of her aim is best given by the following extract from a letter addressed to Mrs. George Ripley, but intended for circulation.
" 'My dear friend,—The ad... | 1 | 3,691 | 580 | 4,271 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 23 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Christmas made a holiday for Miss Fuller's class, but it met on Saturday, at noon. As I sat there, my heart overflowed with joy at the sight of the bright circle, and I longed to have you by my side, for I know not where to look for so much character, culture, and so much love of truth and beauty, in any other circle ... | 1 | 3,825 | 250 | 4,075 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_23 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | dialogue. There was no pretension or pedantry in a word that was said. The tone of remark and question was simple as that of children in a school class; and, I believe, every one was gratified. * * * * *
"Margaret used to come to the conversations very well dressed, and, altogether, looked sumptuously. She began them ... | 1 | 3,435 | 676 | 4,111 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The fame of these conversational classes soon spread far and wide, and the golden report given of her talents led to the proposition that Margaret should undertake an evening class of four or five lessons, to which gentlemen should also be admitted. These classes, too, were formed and renewed in the November of each ye... | 1 | 3,465 | 182 | 3,647 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_24 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | The incessant exertion occasioned by teaching, writing, and speaking, added to pecuniary anxieties and domestic cares, had so exhausted Margaret's energy by 1844, that she felt the strongest necessity for an entire change of scene amid freer fields of action; accordingly she accepted a liberal offer of Messrs. Greeley ... | 1 | 4,203 | 230 | 4,433 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Into one of those narrow, gloomy streets, where the houses seem trying to push each other further backward with their full-fledged laundry sticks, where are eddying swarms of children, where every doorstep is alive, and white, wan faces speak the dark windows, children perchance just come home from the hospital, we tur... | 1 | 4,203 | 301 | 4,504 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 25 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | (To be concluded in our next.)
III.—INFANT SEAMSTRESSES. | 1 | 4,203 | 19 | 4,222 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_25 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | puts forth its head between the feathers of the brooding wing, or drives from beneath it with bewitching wilfulness, notwithstanding the solemn clutching of the mother fowl. You couldn't help this entirely, but when missy got a little older, then she would, of course, be quite different, and learn to be still. Be still... | 1 | 2,987 | 593 | 3,580 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 27 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Neither is there any difference between the heir of indigence and the heir of wealth, in respect of physical conformation. The pauper child has no largess of constitution superseding the necessity of what we term play. Play, not exercise merely. There may be a heavy tax on the brain of a child while he has plenty of ex... | 1 | 3,465 | 76 | 3,541 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_27 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | cise, and consequently there is “a deficiency of nervous power for digestion, assimilation, etc.” But what a very long way we are getting from Croker’s Buildings.
We paused on the stairs, and indeed, and in reality, we had often to pause ere we reached the highest round. In the utter darkness we nearly trod upon a chi... | 1 | 4,075 | 443 | 4,518 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 28 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It was a small and very wretched apartment, containing a bed, and one chair, the seat of authority. There was no table, but there were three low forms, which were perpetually tumbling over, and on these forms were seated eleven "little girls;" the four on the front form could hardly, any of them, have seen six years, o... | 1 | 4,075 | 301 | 4,376 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_28 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "the most, and the neighbour wouldn't measure." The poor old woman had scarcely pacified them, when the little girl "going of five," a perfectly cleanly, lovable, kissable little creature, burst forth with a most grievous lamentation, because somebody behind had said that her "father was transported, and he wasn't tran... | 1 | 3,465 | 378 | 3,843 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 29 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | For the making of the shirt of which this baby did the hemming, a whole day's hard work of course, and which had also expended, on it another day's cruel labor on band and gusset and seam, the old woman received twopence-halfpenny; or, in the phraseology of the trade, the little girls were on slops at half-a-crown a do... | 1 | 3,465 | 341 | 3,806 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_29 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 30 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | were most to be pitied. To be sure she might have gone to the union, and it is so very easy to send old people there. We are quite of opinion that she would have been better there, but somshow old people do hang back very much. We shouldn't, were we in their position, oh no! What a special favor it is that we, who woul... | 1 | 2,859 | 721 | 3,580 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_30 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 31 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | necessary,” you say. Ah! madam, if you had only one pleasant thing to look upon in this world, you don’t know how careful you would be, lest any of its conelines should be lost. Other of the children were deplorably neglected, and seemed, poor things, to be aware of their inferiority; yet these, we learned, boasted bet... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,467 | 7,185 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_31 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 32 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | keeping of the cripple almost entirely. What could she do more? But we have not done. On the bed lay two infants, both in the first year of their life, and both asleep. One was a fine, stout boy, but there was just something which told that life's healthy current had received a taint, an indefinable something like what... | 1 | 2,923 | 678 | 3,601 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_32 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 33 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | as the original of desolation. Its feet were naked, and it seemed to have but one filthy ragged garment, with which it was vainly attempting to cover its naked knees with one hand, while with the other it was held to the face. The child was crying bitterly, and the big tears dropped heavily on the frost-bleached paveme... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,317 | 7,035 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_33 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 34 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | others? And yet her birthright is offered her as a boon, or denied altogether, while in the case of those who have higher talents, the right of legitimate exercise is questioned or ridiculed, though these have not been filched from man, but received from God. But amid all this interdictions, we are thankful to re-cogni... | 1 | 3,886 | 452 | 4,338 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_34 |
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EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | IV.—STANZAS.
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EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | Oh! thou that with a meek despair Behold'st thy life of fruitless care Rise like a rock all bleak and bare! | 1 | 3,825 | 32 | 3,857 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | As thou dost prize eternal peace Let not thine earnest labors cease; With thee the work, with God the increase. | 1 | 3,825 | 27 | 3,852 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 5 | And any moment He may make A prophet rise with power to break The rock's hard surface for thy sake. | 1 | 3,825 | 25 | 3,850 | B0C0R5 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 0 | 0 | text | 6 | Letting His bounty gush to sight, As gushed the water's living might To bless the wandering Israelite. | 1 | 3,825 | 25 | 3,850 | B0C0R6 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 1 | 0 | title | 7 | V.—ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS | 1 | 3,825 | 17 | 3,842 | B1C0R7 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 2 | 0 | text | 9 | Your O. Cs. started, as you are aware, on an excursion of some weeks into the North; society had become burthensome to us; humanity distasteful; civilisation and its accompaniments unendurable. Shall I call ourselves female Timons, who fed away into the wilds of Yorkshire to enjoy at our ease the comfort of despising t... | 1 | 3,825 | 155 | 3,980 | B2C0R9 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 2 | 0 | text | 8 | IN SEARCH OF SOLITUDE.
* * * * *
A man who had been much in society, and who had grown weary of the noise and bustle of the world, determined to seek solitude. He had heard of a hermit who lived in a cave in the mountains, and he resolved to visit him. After a long and toilsome journey he reached the cave, and knocke... | 1 | 3,825 | 2,000 | 5,825 | B2C0R8 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 35 | 2 | 1 | text | 10 | VOL. IV. | 1 | 1,035 | 5 | 1,040 | B2C1R10 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | pressive; and,—to descend to minor details, be ready to be caught as models for A.'s pictures, and provide the bare necessaries of life beyond that we desired nothing—for both of us. We took therefore a somewhat pithy and utterly indifferent farewell of our families and friends; laid in a stock of rustic (and we hoped ... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,300 | 7,018 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | sufficiently sentimental turn to say so, no doubt we both felt we were kindred souls and so continued rying with one another in an abuse of modern luxuries. I did not remember at the time, that I had left a minute description of the one, only arm, chair which I considered endurable, and which a particular friend of min... | 1 | 2,987 | 584 | 3,571 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Well he had sixteen lodgers just then, and his rooms were promised for months to come." Sixteen people, besides the farmer's family and tourists, to share the Valley of Desolation with us! We would look at the Strid, shake the dust off our feet, (and plenty of it there was,) and go. | 1 | 3,465 | 71 | 3,536 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On our road we joined company with the keeper's wife, who said a lady had been drowned there lately, and then told us an anecdote of a young gentleman who had tried to leap it a few years ago. It was not till she came to the dog in the leash that I recognised the story. Wordsworth would certainly have made a poem out o... | 1 | 2,987 | 570 | 3,557 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | "Stronds!" said the ostler, scratching his head; "that's a very nasty bit o' road to Stronds." | 1 | 3,949 | 30 | 3,979 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | 38 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. | 1 | 3,949 | 18 | 3,967 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "How far is it?" we asked. "Wull, t' goide book says six and twenty moile, but I'd raither droive forty moile o' good road. T' people don't go to Stronds, you see. They loikes Grossmere, and Lowood, and sich loike places." "But we do not," said we, "and we don't mind a bad road." "Wull, I think t' rain's coomin' on, t'... | 1 | 2,923 | 612 | 3,535 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | " Is this Stronds?" said our driver. " Wull," returned a woman, " I should think t' road to Stronds is a motter o' ten moile loike." Despair seized us. " Can we have tea here?" said A.; " because, then the poor dear horses can rest." Life returned to us when | 1 | 3,349 | 72 | 3,421 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | 40 ADVENTURES OF YOUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.
our request was assented to, and very good tea we had, strong and green, and quite brisk we were when we took our places afresh.
It was a lovely drive. The thunder clouds rolled over the mountains, as each turn in the road showed us fresh valleys and peaks, all quiet and vast... | 1 | 3,115 | 590 | 3,705 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Go? Of course we would go! Our hats were hastily resumed and off we started, accompanied by the landlady, from whom we found that Mr. Brocklebank was a travelling dancing-master who went from place to place; that the youth of the neighbourhood were taken from their schools, if they went to any, and for eight or ten wee... | 1 | 3,949 | 106 | 4,055 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | pupils. To the first the parents and old people were invited; this was the ball of to-night; to the next, the elder brothers and sisters. "And do think," said our landlady, "t' children's manners is all the better for it, and t' schoolmaster he thinks so too."
We paid our threepences, we delivered our blue tickets, an... | 1 | 4,075 | 349 | 4,424 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | On the right was a gap in the barn wall, which led to some inner place; out of which streamed a red light, showing a cluster of rough sandy heads, sunburnt faces, and fustian jackets of some boys who were crowded in there; the benches where we and the elder folks were, being the place of honor. At the left was a white ... | 1 | 4,075 | 368 | 4,443 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | out bottles, and gradually the twelve British sailors showed symptoms of inebriation and staggered about, to the great delight of all, but apparently a call to duty was the best cure, for they were suddenly seen to fling away their bottles and to pull imaginary ropes, formed of their little sticks held together. It rea... | 1 | 3,435 | 569 | 4,004 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | But I cannot describe all the dances; and, after a while, finding it was half-past ten, and that a rest of fifteen minutes combined with bread and butter was being taken by the children, A. and I. prepared to depart. She took Mrs. Ritson aside to make arrangements for our reception at her farm, while I, with an elabora... | 1 | 3,949 | 119 | 4,068 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "Going! surely we were not going?" The second part was far the best, and we must see the clog dance."
I beckoned A. back.
" We must stay," said I, with a royal assumption of importance; "these people will be so vexed if we go!"
" Are you not tired?" suggested A.
" Oh, no, and I think we ought to stay," said I, grav... | 1 | 2,987 | 599 | 3,586 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1859-09-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Broad awake again now, and not one bit inclined to sleep! And still less inclined to sleep was I, when at nearly two o'clock I heard under my open window these remarkable words in a low voice: "Is your's sharp enough, think ye?" Sharp enough for what? My blood ran cold. A. was sound | 1 | 3,349 | 68 | 3,417 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1859-09-01_page_43 |
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