Victoria Magazine, Volume 6Emily Faithfull, 1865 |
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... mostly kept , which no doubt produced other diseases , but not the Russian cattle plague . Look at Lord Granville's farm at Golder's Green - there there were beautiful cow - houses admirably cared for , C 2 THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS . 19.
... mostly kept , which no doubt produced other diseases , but not the Russian cattle plague . Look at Lord Granville's farm at Golder's Green - there there were beautiful cow - houses admirably cared for , C 2 THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS . 19.
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there were beautiful cow - houses admirably cared for , and out of 140 Earl Granville had lost 120 , and he wondered how the disease was introduced . He knew how it got there . Some Dutch cows were imported , and placed in a meadow ...
there were beautiful cow - houses admirably cared for , and out of 140 Earl Granville had lost 120 , and he wondered how the disease was introduced . He knew how it got there . Some Dutch cows were imported , and placed in a meadow ...
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... beautiful lines naturally recur to us ; we are almost surprised not to see quoted- " " Tis life not death for which we pant , ' Tis life wherewith our nerves are scant , More life and fuller that we want . " People are far too apt to ...
... beautiful lines naturally recur to us ; we are almost surprised not to see quoted- " " Tis life not death for which we pant , ' Tis life wherewith our nerves are scant , More life and fuller that we want . " People are far too apt to ...
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... beautiful accomplishments which we have a right to demand in the female sex , reckless of the wide - spread misery that the universal striving after them entails . " A great deal of careful criticism follows on Miss Swanwick's ...
... beautiful accomplishments which we have a right to demand in the female sex , reckless of the wide - spread misery that the universal striving after them entails . " A great deal of careful criticism follows on Miss Swanwick's ...
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... beautiful , indicated a character which was not , and could not be , at one with itself . Her eyes were not the finest I have ever seen , but the deepest , behind which you expected the most ; and when they expressed any penchant , any ...
... beautiful , indicated a character which was not , and could not be , at one with itself . Her eyes were not the finest I have ever seen , but the deepest , behind which you expected the most ; and when they expressed any penchant , any ...
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Page 320 - You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion.
Page 385 - Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded ; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
Page 385 - Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people — less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character.
Page 241 - With those that I saw suffer ! a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creatures in her, Dash'd all to pieces.
Page 67 - ... while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, the chosen and the mighty of every place and time ? Into that you may enter always ; in that you may take fellowship and rank according to your wish ; from that, once entered into it, you can never be an outcast but by your own fault...
Page 133 - Education then, briefly, is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them ; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
Page 384 - ... short of injury to others; and that the worth of different modes of life should be proved practically, when anyone thinks fit to try them. It is desirable, in short, that in things which do not primarily concern others individuality should assert itself.
Page 73 - Ah wasteful woman! — she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay — How has she cheapen'd Paradise! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine!
Page 441 - DEAD flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour : so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.
Page 376 - Do not think of your faults; still less of others' faults: in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong: honor that; rejoice in it; and, as you can, try to imitate it: and your faults will drop off like dead leaves, when their time comes.