| Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 588 pages
...consolation is, indeed, that God hears many a groan, and compassionates much grief which man stops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I say...impotent, for I observe that to such grievances as society can not readily cure, it usually forbids utterance, on pain of its scorn ; this scorn being only a... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1853 - 620 pages
...consolation is, indeed, that God hears many a groan, and compassionates much grief which man stops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I say...People hate to be reminded of ills they are unable or unwillmg to remedy : such reminder, in forcing on them a sense of their own incapacity, or a more painful... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1859 - 376 pages
...is, indeed, that God hears many a groan, and compassionates much grief, which man •tops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I say...that to such grievances as society cannot readily con it usually forbids utterance, on pain of its scorn ; this scorn being only a sort of tinselled... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1859 - 582 pages
...consolation is, indeed, that God heard many a groan, and compassionates much grief which man stops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I say...impotent, for I observe that to such grievances as soeiety can not readily cure, it usually forbids utterance, on pain of its scorn; this scorn being... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 608 pages
...consolation is, indeed, that God hears many a groan, and compassionates much grief which man stops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I say...its deformed weakness. People hate to be reminded of MS they are unable or unwilling to remedy : such reminder, in forcing °n them a sense of their own... | |
| Eustace Trenor - 1872 - 832 pages
...end in limiting if not in removing a physical as well as moral plague. Currer Bell says in "Shirley": "To such grievances as society cannot readily cure,...pain of its scorn; this scorn being only a sort of tinseled cloak to its deformed weakness." •» It has always been noticed that, at every attempt to... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1888 - 560 pages
...consolation is, indeed, that God hears many a groan, and compassionates much grief which man stops his ears against, or frowns on with impotent contempt. I say...utterance, on pain of its scorn: this scorn being only asort of tinselled cloak to itsdeformed weakness. People hate to be reminded of ills they are unable... | |
| William W. Sanger - 1895 - 742 pages
...breast of an accomplished woman lately deceased, when she wrote, "To such grievances as society can not readily cure, it usually forbids utterance on pain of its scorn ; this scorn being only a sort of tinseled cloak to its deformed weakness." How true the idea, many a man who has attempted to unveil... | |
| William W. Sanger - 1897 - 707 pages
...MARINE HOSPITAL, QUARANTINE. NEW YORK, ETC., ETC., ETC. With numerous Editorial Notes and an Appendix. "To such grievances as society cannot readily cure,...pain of its scorn : this scorn being only a sort of tins«led cloak to its deformed weakness." — CURHER BELL, Shirley. NEW EDITION. NEW YORK. THE MEDICAL... | |
| 1898 - 500 pages
...to the Marine Hospital, Quarantine. New York, etc. With numerous editorial notes and an appendix. " To such grievances as society cannot readily cure,...pain of its scorn, this scorn being only a sort of tinseled cloak to its deformed weakness."— [CURRER BELL SHIRLEY. New York: The Medical Publishing... | |
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