Harriet MartineauAllen, 1884 - 224 páginas |
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... knew his mother feel that Harriet does not do justice in her " Autobiography " to that mother's nobler qualities , both moral and intellectual , and especially the latter . Harriet and James Martineau , like so many other men and women ...
... knew his mother feel that Harriet does not do justice in her " Autobiography " to that mother's nobler qualities , both moral and intellectual , and especially the latter . Harriet and James Martineau , like so many other men and women ...
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... knew by heart - enough to be always repeating it to myself with every change of light and darkness , and sound , and silence , the moods of the day and the seasons of the year . " The dull child , who neglected her multiplication ...
... knew by heart - enough to be always repeating it to myself with every change of light and darkness , and sound , and silence , the moods of the day and the seasons of the year . " The dull child , who neglected her multiplication ...
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... knew it was at the risk of being sent for to join the sewing - circle " ; and of the necessity that she lay under to find time for study by stealing secret hours from sleep . But it is needful to lay stress upon these hindrances through ...
... knew it was at the risk of being sent for to join the sewing - circle " ; and of the necessity that she lay under to find time for study by stealing secret hours from sleep . But it is needful to lay stress upon these hindrances through ...
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... knew the two so well , felt quite certain that they were not suited for each other . Harriet was of a strong , decided temper , even somewhat arbitrary and hasty , quick in her judgments , and firm in her opinions . The temperament of ...
... knew the two so well , felt quite certain that they were not suited for each other . Harriet was of a strong , decided temper , even somewhat arbitrary and hasty , quick in her judgments , and firm in her opinions . The temperament of ...
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... knew and felt of love , we must look elsewhere than in the formal record of the Autobiography . * But this , like all the other chief events of her life , has found a place in her works under a thin veiling of her personality . Let us ...
... knew and felt of love , we must look elsewhere than in the formal record of the Autobiography . * But this , like all the other chief events of her life , has found a place in her works under a thin veiling of her personality . Let us ...
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affection Ambleside American amongst appeared Atkinson Autobiography believe cause character Charlotte Brontë child course Daily Daily News leaders deafness dear friend death Deerbrook domestic duty early Edinburgh Review Emily Brontë emotions essays fact feelings felt Florence Nightingale George Sand girl Greenhow hand happy Harriet Mar Harriet Martineau heart honour household human illness influence interest James Martineau Jenny kind knew labour lady less letters literary lived London look maid Margaret Fuller ment mental mesmerism mind Miss Martineau moral mother natural never Norwich opinion pain paper Political Economy present principles published readers received Repository Review servants sister social society spirit story suffering supposed tell thing thought tineau tion told truth Tynemouth Unitarian volume W. E. Forster week Westminster Review whole woman women writing written wrote young
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Página 14 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 8 - I had a devouring passion for justice; -justice, first to my own precious self, and then to other oppressed people. Justice was precisely what was least understood in our house, in regard to servants and children. Now and then I desperately poured out my complaints; but in general I brooded over my injuries, and those of others who dared not speak; and then the temptation to suicide was very strong.
Página 145 - She is certainly a woman of wonderful endowments, both intellectual and physical; and though I share few of her opinions , and regard her as fallible on certain points of judgment, I must still award her my sincerest esteem. The manner in which she combines the highest mental culture with the nicest discharge of feminine duties filled me with admiration; while her affectionate kindness earned my gratitude.
Página 219 - I see every thing in the universe go out and disappear, and I see no reason for supposing that it is not an actual and entire death. And for my part, I have no objection to such an extinction. I well remember the passion with which WE Forster said to me, " I had rather be damned than annihilated.
Página 221 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right ; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Página 145 - ... exemplary or nobler. She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no sort of credit to herself for her active and indefatigable philanthropy. The government of her household is admirably administered : all she does is well done, from the writing of a history down to the quietest female occupation. No sort of carelessness or neglect is allowed under her rule, and yet she is not over-strict or too rigidly exacting : her servants and her poor neighbours love as well as respect her.
Página 145 - I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within and without; arranged at all points with admirable neatness and comfort. Her visitors enjoy the most perfect liberty ; what she claims for herself she allows them. I rise at my own hour, breakfast alone (she is up at five, takes a cold bath, and a walk by starlight, and has finished breakfast and got to her work by seven o'clock).
Página 122 - ... pages were read, at once pronounced it to be Miss Martineau's production ; and concluded that you knew all about it, and caused it to be sent hither. In some of its most eloquent parts it stops short of their wishes and expectations ; but they all agree that it is a rare book, doing honour to the head and heart of your able and interesting friend. Mr. Wordsworth praised it with more unreserve — I may say, with more earnestness — than is usual with him.
Página 56 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.