Cheerful thoughts of a cheery philosopher, Volumen2S. Low, Marston, 1894 |
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... ladies are now in real earnest setting up clubs of their own . There are several of them in the Provinces . At Exeter there is a particularly good one , appropriately enough , next door to the gentle- men's club . So much , then , for ...
... ladies are now in real earnest setting up clubs of their own . There are several of them in the Provinces . At Exeter there is a particularly good one , appropriately enough , next door to the gentle- men's club . So much , then , for ...
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... constitution of the sex . Without attempt- ing to decide a question admitting of so much debate , it may be noticed that the desire on the part of ladies for education of a high character is steadily growing , and 22 EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.
... constitution of the sex . Without attempt- ing to decide a question admitting of so much debate , it may be noticed that the desire on the part of ladies for education of a high character is steadily growing , and 22 EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.
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... ladies do frequently attend the regular courses of lectures of some of the pro- fessors ; at Cambridge the same thing occurs , owing to the fact that the ladies ' colleges ( Girton College and Newnham Hall ) cannot provide sufficient ...
... ladies do frequently attend the regular courses of lectures of some of the pro- fessors ; at Cambridge the same thing occurs , owing to the fact that the ladies ' colleges ( Girton College and Newnham Hall ) cannot provide sufficient ...
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... lady students to many of their classes , and in some instances have instituted separate classes for ladies . King's College some years ago established a department for ladies at Kensington , at which lectures are given in all subjects ...
... lady students to many of their classes , and in some instances have instituted separate classes for ladies . King's College some years ago established a department for ladies at Kensington , at which lectures are given in all subjects ...
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... Ladies to whom an instrumental concert affords , not only artistic pleasures from the concord of sweet sounds , ' but intellectual ones , derived from the remembrance of chapters from Helmholtz ' text - book of overtones , and the ...
... Ladies to whom an instrumental concert affords , not only artistic pleasures from the concord of sweet sounds , ' but intellectual ones , derived from the remembrance of chapters from Helmholtz ' text - book of overtones , and the ...
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Aglaïa beautiful beer better bitter beer brain Brindisi Bristol Channel British called carriage Charles Kingsley charm cheap Christmas Day Christmastide church Clevedon climate clubs coast comfort committee course Crummock Water delightful dinner Dukeries dyspepsia England English Ennerdale expense eyes fact fashionable feeling fish friends give governess guineas Gulf Stream hand holiday immense interest invalids island kind Kingsley knew late literary living London Long Vacation look Lord matter mind Moulton nature never night once parliamentary train Penzance perhaps pleasant pleasure poor preachers pretty quiet railway reason rest scenery Scilly Isles seaside seems sermons sleep Smith social society sort story summer sure tables d'hôte talk taste teetotal things thought tion Torquay tour tourists town walk waterfall watering-place winter wonderful young ladies
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Página 198 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Página 262 - At his first settling with me, I made him a present of all the good sermons which have been printed in English, and only begged of him that every Sunday he would pronounce one of them in the pulpit Accordingly he has digested them into such a series, that they follow one another naturally, and make a continued system of practical divinity.
Página 283 - Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But . teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Página 2 - O give us the man who sings at his work ; be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time — he will do it better — he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
Página 41 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, The part that kings or IIHVB can caneo or care I ' "Now, the truth is, that kings or laws can cause or cure...
Página 274 - We cannot all have our gardens now, nor our pleasant fields to meditate in at eventide. Then the function of our architecture is, as far as may be, to replace these; to tell us about Nature; to possess us with memories of her quietness; to be solemn and full of tenderness, like her, and rich in portraitures of her; full of delicate imagery of the flowers we can no more gather, and of the living creatures now far away from us in their own solitude.
Página 2 - The way to this, is to keep our bodies in exercise,. our minds at ease' That insipid state wherein neither are in vigour, is not to be accounted any part of our portion of being. When we are in the satisfaction of some innocent pleasure, or pursuit of some laudable design, we are in the possession of life, of human life. Fortune will give us disappointments enough, and nature is attended with infirmities enough, without our adding to the unhappy side of our account by our spleen or illhumour.
Página 258 - So that, until the servants and ministers of the living God do pass the limits of pulpit theology and pulpit exhortation, and take weapons in their hand, gathered out of every region in which the life of man or his faculties are interested...
Página 274 - We are forced, for the sake of accumulating our power and knowledge, to live in cities : but such advantage as we have in association with each other is in great part counterbalanced by our loss of fellowship with nature. We cannot all have our gardens now, nor our pleasant fields to meditate in at eventide. Then the function of our architecture is, as far as may be, to replace these ; to tell us about nature...
Página 259 - They prepare for teaching gipsies, for teaching bargemen, for teaching miners, by apprehending their way of conceiving and estimating truth ; and why not prepare...