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EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 1 | "Higher still, and ever higher, | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B0C0R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 2 | Darts the lambent forked flame, Bards yet unborn shall strike the lyre | 1 | 3,949 | 19 | 3,968 | B0C0R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 3 | . To chant poor Phyllis' requiem: | 1 | 3,949 | 10 | 3,959 | B0C0R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 4 | Too late her lover gains the strand; | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B0C0R4 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 5 | "Too late," each murmuring leaflet sighs; No eager step—no outstretched hand— | 1 | 3,949 | 23 | 3,972 | B0C0R5 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 6 | "Too late," the whispering breeze replies. | 1 | 3,949 | 10 | 3,959 | B0C0R6 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 7 | . . But, lo, what miracle divine? . . | 1 | 3,949 | 20 | 3,969 | B0C0R7 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 8 | .
What vision meets his startled eye? | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B0C0R8 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 9 | Has gracious Jove vouchsafed a sign, | 1 | 3,949 | 13 | 3,962 | B0C0R9 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 10 | .
A token love can never die? | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B0C0R10 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 11 | From Phyllis' mouldering ashes springs | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B0C0R11 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 12 | A lithe and graceful almond tree; Aloft its leafless arms it flings, | 1 | 3,949 | 22 | 3,971 | B0C0R12 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 13 | .
As praying Heaven beseechingly. | 1 | 3,949 | 8 | 3,957 | B0C0R13 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 14 | . He clasps the trunk in fond embrace, | 1 | 3,949 | 10 | 3,959 | B0C0R14 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 15 | As once her form in happier hours; A roseate blush from tip to base Bursts forth in wreaths of perfumed flowers. | 1 | 3,949 | 30 | 3,979 | B0C0R15 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 16 | And ever as sweet spring returns, | 1 | 3,949 | 7 | 3,956 | B0C0R16 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 17 | She throbs again with passion's thrill, And ever with each waning year | 1 | 3,949 | 17 | 3,966 | B0C0R17 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 18 | She weeps for joys remembered still: | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B0C0R18 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 19 | . While Love, when crowned with Joy, must fade, | 1 | 3,949 | 12 | 3,961 | B0C0R19 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 20 | Hers will through endless years abide; While every almond tree repeats, | 1 | 3,949 | 16 | 3,965 | B0C0R20 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 0 | text | 21 | . . How well she loved, and grieved, and died! | 1 | 3,949 | 18 | 3,967 | B0C0R21 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 0 | 2 | text | 22 | -
E. G. H. | 1 | 1,035 | 9 | 1,044 | B0C2R22 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 1 | 0 | text | 24 | Que la cloche, ce soir dans les airs balancée, Rend un lugubre accord ! Sa languissante voix vibre dans ma pensée. Comme un appel de mort. | 1 | 3,949 | 38 | 3,987 | B1C0R24 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 1 | 0 | text | 25 | Voici que le soleil, pour la vague profonde Délassant l'horizon, | 1 | 3,949 | 19 | 3,968 | B1C0R25 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 1 | 0 | text | 26 | Comme un doux : "au revoir !" au front vieilli du monde Jette un dernier rayon. | 1 | 3,949 | 22 | 3,971 | B1C0R26 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 1 | 0 | text | 27 | * These verses are from the pen of Madame Pape-Carpentier, a French lady, whose works of practical benevolence we shall, before long, introduce to our readers, but whose fine and delicate genius would have assured her honors as an artist, had she been less absorbed in labors which command respect. | 1 | 3,949 | 70 | 4,019 | B1C0R27 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 34 | 1 | 0 | title | 23 | XXVIII.—UN CONVOL.*
* | 1 | 3,949 | 9 | 3,958 | B1C0R23 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_34 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | La lune s'est levée : à sa lueur obscure S'éveille les zéphyrs, Et la nuit parfumée étend sur la nature Son manteau de saphirs.
Je vois sur le penchant de ce coteau rapide Les taureaux mugissants, Dociles et soumis à l'enfant qui les guide, Revenir à pas lents.
Tout charme, tout séduit dans ce riant empire, Tout y pa... | 1 | 2,987 | 321 | 3,308 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 35 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Je vois un bouquet blanc—Ciel ! une jeune fille !— Infortunée ! hier, l'espoir de ta famille, Peut-être tu sortais de ton riant berceau— Aujourd'hui, pour demeure il te faut un tombeau ! Et peut-être qu'hier tu disais : « O ma mère ! Quand Dieu prendra ta vie à ton enfant si chère, Je veux fermer tes yeux et suivre ton... | 1 | 2,113 | 223 | 2,336 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_35 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | Vénérable vieillard, vous dont la voix murmure Des accents de douceur, Dites pourquoi, si tôt, de son haleine impure, La mort glaça son cœur? Sa main saisit ma main, puis il guida ma vue Dans un riant verger, Là, sur la mousse en fleurs, une femme étendue Dormait près d’un berger. D’amour et de candeur la crédule jeune... | 1 | 3,825 | 239 | 4,064 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | A few days after the unlucky mistake of the showing of the portrait, as I was on the point of drawing aside the heavy portière that hung across the entrance to the salon, I overheard a few words which made me pause, and sent the blood dancing in my veins from anger. Mrs. Bethune was in conversation with one of her frie... | 1 | 3,825 | 272 | 4,097 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 36 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
CHAPTER III.
. | 1 | 3,825 | 5 | 3,830 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_36 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | called ultra-sensible, and my indignation was roused when I consulted the conscience with which I was to be dismissed of. | 1 | 3,949 | 31 | 3,980 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 37 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | suered the counsel with which I was so familiar: " 'So love is a luxury reserved only for heiresses,' I muttered to myself, as I sought my own room the more freely to indulge my resentment. 'Portionless damsels must take what is offered to them, and accept as a God-send a human baboon, a male in a dress coat, a simperi... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,430 | 7,148 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_37 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | looked sprightly; every one seemed conscious that the sun shone, shone for his especial pleasure. That walk was one of the pleasant notches in my time stick. The joyousness of spring was in the air, the delicate hue of the tender leaves, as seen between us and the clear blue sky, refreshed the eye and filled the heart ... | 1 | 2,987 | 634 | 3,621 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 38 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | “We are all going on Thursday week to the ball which is to be given by our Ambassador,” I continued, not heeding Sarah’s exclamation. | 1 | 4,203 | 30 | 4,233 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_38 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “I am sorry to hear you are so foolish. I wish we were away from this city of temptation,” said Sarah, with a very angry expression of face as she left me.
The expected Thursday evening came; and at ten o’clock I found myself at the British Embassy. The illuminated city, to which I compared a love dream, was now excha... | 1 | 2,923 | 621 | 3,544 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 39 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The night wore on. Fatigued with her exertions, Mrs. Bethune had seated herself near, and was in conversation with Lady C—— | 1 | 3,825 | 30 | 3,855 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_39 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and some friends of the latter to whom in the course of the evening she had been introduced. Cleveland had disappeared; Master Edward was in attendance on the blue-eyed English girl, and no one seemed to be taking particular notice either of me or my movements. I considered it an excellent opportunity to try and get a ... | 1 | 3,819 | 516 | 4,335 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 40 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | Never before had Mr. Cleveland called me by my name; a name associated in my memory with remembrances of childhood, of singing birds, hawthorn-trees, daisied meadows, and running streams. I could not answer, for the past seemed the present, and the present became annihilated. He laid his hand gently on my arm, as it re... | 1 | 3,949 | 199 | 4,148 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_40 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the vision of the past and bring me again to the present. The idea was fantastic, but my festal attire, jewelled armlet, and Indian fan seemed to reproach me for keeping them there shivering beneath the stars when they were put on to glitter in the glare and warmth of wax-lights. I likewise remembered that it was again... | 1 | 3,051 | 609 | 3,660 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 41 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Not in the least," I answered, and we re-entered the room together. I looked round in search of Mrs. Bethune. She was standing with another lady near the door at which we entered. | 1 | 4,075 | 42 | 4,117 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_41 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “I fear the heat does not agree with Miss Lindores,” she said, as if to Mr. Cleveland, in a bland voice, not looking at me. “I have told Edward to call our carriage; it will be here immediately.” I saw the expression of the face of the speaker, although she had turned away from me. A large mirror was opposite her, and ... | 1 | 4,203 | 297 | 4,500 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Next morning my head ached violently; and an indefinite feeling of not wishing to meet Mrs. Bethune kept me all the morning in my own room. For weeks past I had been anticipating the formal offer of the hand of Master Edward through his aunt, and it was from this I shrank, as I knew that my rejection of her nephew woul... | 1 | 4,203 | 357 | 4,560 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 42 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
CHAPTER IV. | 1 | 4,203 | 4 | 4,207 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_42 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | land. With regard to the latter, I was informed that business had called him to the South of France; but that in all likelihood he would be in London very shortly. I was likewise informed that Mrs. Bethune intended to leave Paris in a few weeks. This was all I knew.
In the interval which elapsed before our departure f... | 1 | 3,691 | 500 | 4,191 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 43 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In Paris I had met with a rich subject for thought. True, my artist friend had vanished in a cloud, but in London he would re-appear. This was my solace. It was my intention to take leave of Mrs. Bethune the moment we reached England, as after what had occurred neither of us felt at ease. She was too well-bred a woman ... | 1 | 4,075 | 186 | 4,261 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_43 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | range of his movements. It was therefore with disappointment in my heart that I journeyed home.
This was all I had acquired by seeing the world! I likewise perceived that the rich widow did not quite regard me as her equal, and this knowledge jarred against my self-respect. Sarah Dermid was the only one who unf unf un... | 1 | 3,243 | 265 | 3,508 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 44 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | I will not say how many weeks rolled past before I could consciously declare that I was perfectly reconciled to the tiny cottage and our village girl for a "help," or even to our oldfashioned town itself, with its one wide street and market-place. It seemed in an unaccountable manner to have diminished in size, and to ... | 1 | 4,203 | 91 | 4,294 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_44 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 45 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | church, once an object of my admiration, had also dwindled in its proportions, and looked but an ordinary tower after all. In like manner the river, the bridge, the distant hills, each and all of them had changed for the worse. The whole appearance of the place seemed strange in my eyes. It took some time before they r... | 2 | 5,718 | 1,362 | 7,080 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_45 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | absurd prejudices, and make a public example of themselves, the follies of society may go on for ever—I care nothing for the opinion of fools, and I feel sure all right-minded people would support me;” I added, with great vehemence, and went on, as was my wont, to abuse the moral code, or rather the social barriers whi... | 1 | 3,883 | 448 | 4,331 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 46 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It may be presumed that as the occupation harmonized with my taste for art, I entered upon it _con amore_. Yet the fact was otherwise; I adopted the scheme because it appeared the only one I could at that time undertake; and because I felt myself fully competent to perform all that would be required of me as a teacher ... | 1 | 4,203 | 208 | 4,411 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_46 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | falling, made my head swim and my eyes ache. The majority of my pupils did not seem to care whether they made straight lines or crooked. The occupation was regarded more as an amusement than as a study. Had it been the fashion of the day to devote as much time to drawing as to music, perhaps some of my young friends wo... | 1 | 3,307 | 478 | 3,785 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 47 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The Committee wish to remark that, through a change in the time of holding their public meeting, the Report which they now present comprises nine months only, instead of twelve as usual. 'The Committee fear, therefore, it will not fairly represent the Association's work; but they still trust it will not be found altoge... | 1 | 4,075 | 111 | 4,186 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_47 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | give cause for much gratitude for the past, and strong hope for the future.
The receipts have been equal to the average, and forty-one new members have been enrolled, making a total of two hundred and six now on the list.
The Committee have continued to devote their chief attention merely to the diffusion of sanitary... | 1 | 3,825 | 276 | 4,101 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 48 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | In all, sixty-two thousand, making a total of one hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred tracts issued by the Association since its commencement. These tracts have been widely circulated throughout the country. A large number have been gratuitously distributed by the Association. Others have been circulated wit... | 1 | 3,825 | 282 | 4,107 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_48 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | the regular circulation of the tracts wherever there exist parochial organizations for visiting the poor. For this part of their work the Committee very earnestly ask aid. They much desire to give grants of tracts to all poor parishes, and also to sell at a great reduction to all persons engaged in district visiting an... | 1 | 3,051 | 570 | 3,621 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 49 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | VII.—On Common Sense applied to Cooking, Nursing, &c. By Dr. Waller Lewis, in the National School, Aldersgate Street. VIII.—On Howard, Cook, and Jenner; or the Health Reforms of the last Century. By Dr. W. A. Guy, in St. Thomas' Charterhouse National School. Vol. VII. | 1 | 4,203 | 75 | 4,278 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_49 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | IX.—On Drainage and Ventilation. By John Marshall, Esq., in St. Thomas' Charterhouse National School.
X.—On Drainage and Ventilation. By Dr. T. Hillier, in the New Jerusalem Church School, Argyle Square.
XI.—On the Use of Fresh Air. By Dr. R. D. Thomson, in the National School, Manning Place, Marylebone.
XII.—On Foo... | 1 | 3,435 | 551 | 3,986 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 50 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | A member of the Committee, Mrs. William Fison, has devoted the principal part of her time to the promotion of sanitary improvement in various parts of the kingdom. Mrs. Fison has visited Manchester, and, by request of the Committee of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association, has organized a Ladies' Auxiliary, w... | 1 | 3,949 | 132 | 4,081 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_50 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | and conversazioni held for the discussion of the means of effecting sanitary improvements among the poor in Andover, Bradford, Brighton, Brompton, Chersey, Darlington, Highbury, Maidenhead, Middlesboro', Oxford, Reading, Stainton, Watlington, and Wilton. Some of these meetings were attended by district visitors and oth... | 1 | 2,923 | 567 | 3,490 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 51 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | The Brighton and Sussex branch has also made much progress. Subjoined are extracts from its Report and other papers:— | 1 | 4,075 | 24 | 4,099 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_51 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | “The Association has now eighty-one members. The balance-sheet shows a very satisfactory state of the funds.”
“The Association has aimed at a practical realization of the objects of the parent Society.”
“First by the dissemination of sanitary literature through every available channel. Grants of tracts have been made... | 1 | 2,987 | 564 | 3,551 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 52 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | "Many facts might be mentioned to show that, small as has been the beginning of the sanitary work carried out in this manner, some important results have been obtained. | 1 | 3,949 | 35 | 3,984 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_52 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | "The Committee are endeavoring to establish baths and wash-houses, and have already received special subscriptions for that purpose. " A lending library of sanitary works is now in course of formation at the office." "A special fund has been opened to provide poor children with skipping-ropes, balls, and other toys, wh... | 1 | 2,923 | 510 | 3,433 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 53 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | GEORGINA COWPER, S. E. SUTHERLAND, f Honorary Secretaries. | 1 | 4,075 | 25 | 4,100 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_53 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | During a late visit to Paris I had the pleasure of being introduced to many friends of the late Madame Mojon; by one of whom the original biography written by M. Emile Souvestre was placed in my hands. On examining this little book, (which was printed and largely distributed, but not published,) it was evident that the... | 1 | 3,051 | 581 | 3,632 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_54 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 54 | 0 | 1 | title | 1 | XXXI.—APPENDIX TO THE LIFE OF MADAME MOJON.
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EWJ-1861-05-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | ther, when one has been able to judge of the vivacity of her intellect, of the wealth of her heart, of the life which her brilliant imagination cast on all her surroundings, on anything about which she occupied herself; when one has followed her in her daily avocations, and seen how many joys and what a sum of happines... | 1 | 2,923 | 618 | 3,541 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 55 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is delightful to me to think that my little Early Lessons will in future be read with pleasure by a rising generation of Italian | 1 | 3,703 | 28 | 3,731 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_55 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | children, and that children yet unborn may bless me, through your means, for easy Early Readings.
Miss Smith, with whom I understand you are well acquainted, informs me that you were for some time in London. I am sorry I was not there at that time, as it would have gratified me to have made your acquaintance. If you s... | 1 | 3,691 | 500 | 4,191 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 56 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | DEAR MADAME MOJON,—Am I to congratulate you on being at last the citizen of a republic, or does the revolution achieved only show you another in the distance? Whenever I have seen the pupils of the Polytechnic School mentioned it has been with emotion on your account—twice particularly, once on a glorious, once on a mo... | 1 | 3,949 | 167 | 4,116 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_56 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | two points of view in which the recent events are still more gratifying to me, because, if the lesson can be read, they are most instructive in respect to the morale of politics.—Do as you would be done by.— 1st, That the system of expediency has failed in the hands of, perhaps, the ablest man in Europe, with every adv... | 1 | 3,825 | 330 | 4,155 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | A. S. NOEL BYRON.
This letter is addressed to :— Madame Mojon, Rue des Petits Hôtels, Faubourg Poissonnière, Paris. | 1 | 3,825 | 39 | 3,864 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | Silas Marner; or, the Weaver of Raveloe. By the Author of Adam Bede. Blackwood. London.
When a writer of the acknowledged eminence of George Eliot produces a new novel, the critic and the public alike shrink from the commonplaces of criticism. The mind that creates a work which immediately takes a classical rank in li... | 1 | 3,825 | 137 | 3,962 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | - Yours ever, | 1 | 3,825 | 10 | 3,835 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_57 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 57 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | XXXII.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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EWJ-1861-05-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | creature in the kingdom who reads at all will probably read before the successive editions are exhausted?
To us, however, on poring over Silas Marner, the one-volumed novel which lies on all tables, there came especially this one reflection—what a wonderful power of growth and change lies in George Eliot’s characters.... | 1 | 4,075 | 346 | 4,421 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 58 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is, however, universally conceded that young people are not stationary, and that between twelve and twenty the exhortations of the clergyman; the advice of parents, and the thumps and bruises the young actors give themselves in the course of their own experience, are likely to produce some appreciable change. Edith ... | 1 | 4,075 | 308 | 4,383 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_58 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | In fact, this story, though much slighter in construction, and less profound in interest, exhibits the same quality as “ Janet’s Repentance,” and is but one of the episodes of the country life of Adam Bede.
Agnes Tremorne. By J. Blagden, Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. 2 Vols.
Those who are acquainted with Miss Blag... | 1 | 3,179 | 517 | 3,696 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 59 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | If we say that this book reminds us of “Transformation,” it is not that the one is in the very least copied or suggested by the other, but rather that English life in a Roman atmosphere is as perfectly rendered by Miss Blagden as by her American predecessor, and also that the heroine is an artist. The first view of Agn... | 1 | 3,825 | 90 | 3,915 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_59 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | branch and the lily, is as pretty a piece of word painting as we remember, and worth in itself sending for the book to read, were there not so many things in it still better worth reading and thinking over.
Ancient Law; its Connexion with the Early History of Society, and its relation to Modern Ideas. By Henry Turner ... | 1 | 3,755 | 440 | 4,195 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 60 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It is from this point of view that there is much in Mr. Maine's work specially interesting in its application to the present legal position of women. 'To trace this position, from its first origin in the history of the family in rude societies, through all the various forms which the gradually awakening sense of justic... | 1 | 4,075 | 185 | 4,260 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_60 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | followed out. It is, however, in this chapter, and in this chapter only, that we find one or two remarks from which, if we have rightly understood them, we should be disposed to dissent. After an admirable exposition of the history, or rather of the philosophy of the Roman Patria Potestas, or Authority of the Head of t... | 1 | 2,923 | 624 | 3,547 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 61 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | It must not however be supposed that Mr. Maine's book is unfavorable to an extension of the present legal rights of women. | 1 | 3,825 | 28 | 3,853 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_61 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 62 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | With the exception of the single sentence we have quoted, there is nothing that could be so understood, for even in regard to the personal rights of married women he would appear to think the law requires some alteration, while the general tenor of his whole work, pointing in all things towards the future, exhibiting p... | 1 | 3,691 | 434 | 4,125 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_62 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | children; it is written in a wise and comprehensive spirit, and throws considerable light on the difficulties which attend the possession of this faculty by the young.
-- _Thoughts on the Vocation and Progression of the Teacher._ By Miss Sarah Jolly. Second Edition. Simpkin and Marshall, London.
An earnest loving app... | 1 | 3,307 | 485 | 3,792 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | Four new tracts have been lately issued by the Ladies' Sanitary Association; two of them, "the Power of Soap and Water," and "Household Verses on Health and Happiness," are adapted for distribution among the poor, and are very good of their kind. The other two are of a higher class; the one being a lecture on "Healthy ... | 1 | 4,075 | 96 | 4,171 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 63 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | Sanitary Tracts. | 1 | 4,075 | 6 | 4,081 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_63 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | of the Working-classes,” delivered at the South Kensington Museum by Mr. Henry Roberts, Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the other a pamphlet entitled the “Health of the Parish,” which tells just what nobody knows, namely, how to bring the law to bear upon nuisances of all descriptions. The author o... | 1 | 4,075 | 232 | 4,307 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 64 | 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 Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
LADIES,
In the interesting account given in your last two numbers of the Lunatic Village, Ghee, (p. 94) the following passage occurs, “If, ho... | 1 | 4,075 | 209 | 4,284 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | text | 5 | LADIES,
Having read with pleasure your account of the Lunatic Village at Gheel, I shall feel personally obliged if you will kindly answer the following inquiries through the medium of your Journal. Is there a Protestant pastor at Gheel, who interests himself in the patients? In your paper it is stated, that were there... | 1 | 4,075 | 215 | 4,290 | B0C1R5 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | XXXIII.—OPEN COUNCIL. | 1 | 4,075 | 13 | 4,088 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 64 | 0 | 1 | title | 4 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal. | 1 | 4,075 | 11 | 4,086 | B0C1R4 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_64 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | furnish the information requested you will benefit your readers generally, and confer a favor on your correspondent,
N. B.
ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE CONCERNING GHEEL.
1. There was in 1860 no Protestant pastor at Gheel; the number of Protestants being apparently too small for the support of one. 2. French and German are t... | 1 | 4,075 | 340 | 4,415 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | OBSERVATIONS ON A FEW OBSERVERS OF THE VICTORIA PRESS.
LADIES,
Certainly among the wonders of the present day the Victoria Press claims a position. Some "wonder how it will get on," others "think women in the printing trade will never answer, printing always was done by men and always will be." Those persons who "won... | 1 | 4,075 | 494 | 4,569 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 65 | 0 | 1 | title | 2 | .
To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal. | 1 | 4,075 | 12 | 4,087 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_65 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 1 | which I am told they have to copy exactly, but sometimes it is not punctuated—and this is what the printers seem to think will be the great stumbling-block to women compositors—because they have to punctuate while they are composing from the manuscript. How is it then that some boys when they are first apprenticed to p... | 1 | 3,435 | 675 | 4,110 | B0C1R1 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 3 | LADIES, I find the following among Memoranda intended for your use, and mislaid during illness. "The wealth of the 'City,' said the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Monday evening, 'is more than equal to that of twenty-five English and Welsh counties. The City of London, the City proper, is richer than Liverpool, Manche... | 1 | 3,949 | 122 | 4,071 | B0C1R3 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_66 |
EWJ-1861-05-01 | 66 | 0 | 1 | text | 2 | To the Editors of the English Woman's Journal.
I have read with much interest the article in your last number on "The Educational Position of Women in England." I am glad to find that the question is being so seriously discussed, and I hope that it may lead to some practical results. I think, however, that the article... | 1 | 3,949 | 336 | 4,285 | B0C1R2 | EWJ-1861-05-01_page_66 |
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