 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 430 pages
...reach it? Can you give them a field in which their faculties may be exercised and grow? Men of England! look at your poor girls, many of them fading around...occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the manoeuvrer, the mischief-making tale-bearer. Keep your girls ' minds narrow and fettered — they will... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 320 pages
...or an unmanly insult. You would wish to be proud of your daughters and not to blush for them—then seek for them an interest and an occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the manoeuvrer, the mischief-making tale-bearer. Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered—they will... | |
 | 430 pages
...with an idle jest or an unmanly insult. You would wish to he proud of your daughters, and not to hlush for them ; — then seek for them an interest and an occupation which shall raise them ahove the flirt, the manœuverer, the mischief-making tale-hearer. Keep your girls' minds narrow and... | |
 | Midland-metropolitan magazine - 1852 - 676 pages
...meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow trailing thing it often becomes to many. Fathers, would you wish to be proud of your daughters, and not to blush...occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the manoeuvrer, the mischief-making talebearer. Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered, they will still... | |
 | 1853 - 158 pages
...colour and the style of this decoration should be the next consideration. MRM SEEK for your daughters an interest and an occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the manceuvrer, or the mischiefmaking tale-bearer. If yon keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered, they will be... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1857 - 318 pages
...exercised and grow? Men of England! look at your poor girls, many of them fading around you, dropping oif in consumption or decline ; or, what is worse, degenerating...occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the mauoeuvrer, the mischief-making tale-bearer. Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered, ing themselves... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 610 pages
...it ? Can you give them a field in which their faculties may be exercised and grow ? Men of England ! look at your poor girls, many of them fading around...occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the manoeuvrer, the mischief-making talebearer. Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered — they will... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 608 pages
...theme worthy of thought : d •«> not dismiss it with an idle jest or an unmanly insult. You woul«z3 wish to be proud of your daughters and not to blush...seek for them an interest and an occupation which sha.1. 3 raise them above the flirt, the manceuvrer, the mischief-making talebearer. Keep your girls'... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1874 - 564 pages
...it ? Can you give them a field in which their faculties may be exercised and grow? Men of England! look at your poor girls, many of them fading around...and an occupation which shall raise them above the fiirt, the manoeuvrer, the mischief-making tale-bearer. Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1893 - 376 pages
...it ? Can you give them a field in which their faculties may be exercised and grow ? Men of England ! look at your poor girls, many of them fading around...occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the manoeuverer, the mischief-making tale-bearer. Keep your girls' minds narrow and fettered — they will... | |
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... old maids — envious, backbiting, wretched, because life is a desert to them ; or, what is worst of all, reduced to strive, by scarce modest coquetry and debasing artifice, to gain that position and consideration by marriage, which to celibacy is... 
