Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, 1876 |
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Page 47 - She was very well got up in the subject of education for women, and lamented often and pathetically the difficulty they lay under of acquiring the highest instruction ; but at the same time she patronized Mr. Ruskin's theory that dancing, drawing, and cooking, were three of the higher arts which ought to be studied by girls.
Page 294 - ... Oliphant shares Charlotte Yonge's ostensible reverence for masculine learning. Rather than make one of the sisters excel Reginald, Oliphant questions the privileging of such masculine pursuits: What Reginald was doing at the writing-table was probably a great deal less useful, [the girls are sewing] but the girls respected his occupation as no one ever thought of respecting theirs, and carried on their conversation under their breath, not to interrupt him. ... The two dark brown heads were close...
Page 15 - No two people agree as to what is meant by the term " religion " ; but if it means, as I think it ought to mean, simply the reverence and love for the ethical ideal, and the desire to realise that ideal in life, which every man ought to feel — then I say agnosticism has no more to do with it than it has to do with music or painting. If, on the other hand, Mr. Harrison, like most people, means by
Page 86 - To this man, Go, and he goeth, and to that man, Come, and he cometh, that is obedience.
Page 233 - She held back in her corner for the moment, to overcome the shock. Yes, there could be no doubt about it; there he was, he whom she was going to visit, under whose auspices she was about to appear in Carlingford. He was not even like an old Dissenting minister, which had been her childish notion of him. He looked neither more nor less than what he was, an old shopkeeper, very decent and respectable, but a little shabby and greasy, like the men whose weekly bills she had been accustomed to pay for...
Page 29 - He had his father's large face too, and a tendency towards those demonstrative and offensive whiskers which are the special inheritance of the British Philistine.
Page 203 - Ursula had nob learnt much about public virtue, and to get a good income for doing nothing, or next to nothing, seemed to her an ideal sort of way of getting one's livelihood. She wished with a sigh that there were sinecures which could be held by girls. But no, in that as in other things
Page 185 - If you think this luck—" said Reginald. "He does, and he is quite pleased; but how do you suppose I can be pleased? Thrust into a place where I .am not wanted — where I can be of no use. A dummy, a practical falsehood. How can I accept it, Ursula? I tell you it is a sinecure!
Page 16 - ... they had been brought up to believe distinguished the connection. The first thing which opened their minds to a dawning doubt whether their enlightenment was, in reality, so much greater than that of their neighbours, was the social change worked in their position by their removal from Carlingford. In the great towns of the North, Dissent attains its highest social elevation, and Chapel people are no longer to be distinguished from Church people except by the fact that they go to Chapel instead...