Correspondence of William Ellery Channing and Lucy Aiken, from 1826 to 1842Roberts Brothers, 1874 - 446 頁 |
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able admirable AIKIN amongst answer aristocracy become beginning believe bring called carried cause certainly CHANNING character Church civil classes common dear delight doubt effect England English equal evil expressed favour fear feel give given happiness hear heart hope House human improvement influence interest kind knowledge labour lately least less letter live London look manners means ment mind Miss moral nature never noble object opinion party perhaps person pleasure political poor present principles progress question reason received Reform regard rejoice religion religious remarks respect seems seen sincere society speak spirit suffering suppose sure tell thank things thought tion Tories true truly truth views virtue whole wish women write written
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第 421 頁 - We have now well-developed figures, blooming cheeks, active habits, firm nerves, natural and easy manners, a scorn of affectation, and vigorous constitutions. If your fair daughters would also learn to step out, their bloom would be less transient, and fewer would fill untimely graves. I admit, indeed, some unnecessary inelegance in the step of our pedestrian fair ones; but this does not extend to ladies of quality, or real gentlewomen, who take the air chiefly in carriages or on horseback. They...
第 28 頁 - Long before my time, however, my kindred — the Jennings', the Belshams, my excellent grandfather Aikin, and his friend and tutor Doddridge — had begun to break forth out of the chains and darkness of Calvinism, and their manners softened with their system. My youth was spent among the disciples or fellow-labourers of Price and Priestley, the descendants of Dr. John Taylor, the Arian, or in the society of that most amiable of men, Dr. Enfield. Amongst these there was no rigorism.
第 87 頁 - I rejoice in the hope that you will see him some time, as he speaks of visiting your country, and to know you would be one of his first objects. He is indeed a glorious being, — a true sage, as it appears, with the genuine humility of the character, and with more fervour, more sensibility, a more engaging tenderness of heart than any class of character can justly claim.
第 184 頁 - ... dignity mixed with perfect courtesy, and the most touching humility. His memory I shall cherish with affectionate reverence on many accounts, but the character in which I best love to contemplate him is that of the friend and champion of woman. It is impossible to forget his righteous zeal against polygamy, his warm approval of the freedom allowed to women in Europe, his joy and pious gratitude for the abolition of euttee.
第 179 頁 - The 1 ulk of our people are at length well cured of the long and obstinate delusion respecting the wisdom of our ancestors, which so powerfully served the purposes of the interested opposers of improvement. Novelties are now tried upon their merits ; perhaps even there is some partiality in their favour. Pray, pray come and judge of us with your own eyes ! Believe me, ever yours most truly, L, AIKIN.
第 351 頁 - Indeed, life has been an improving gift from my youth; and one reason I believe to be, that my youth was not a happy one. I look back to no bright dawn of life which gradually ' faded into common day.' The light which I now live in rose at a later period. A rigid domestic discipline, sanctioned by the times, gloomy views of religion, the selfish passions, collisions with companions perhaps worse than myself, — these, and other things, darkened my boyhood. Then came altered circumstances, dependence,...
第 148 頁 - Know that a great new light has arisen among English women. In the words of Lord Brougham, ' There is a deaf girl at Norwich doing more good than any man in the country.' You may have seen the name and some of the productions of Harriet Martineau in the ' Monthly Repository,' but what she is gaining glory by are ' Illustrations of Political Economy,' in a series of tales published periodically, of which nine or ten have appeared. It is impossible not to wonder at the skill with which, in the happiest...
第 6 頁 - Children,' by which, with the most delightful allurements of style, the infant mind is insensibly led to look up through all which it beholds, whether of animated or inanimate, physical or moral nature, to the infinitely wise and beneficent cause of all. To a spirit early and deeply imbued with this general religion particular systems have something of low and narrow, from which it recoils with a sense of disappointment or disgust, ready to ask, like Lucan's Cato at the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, whether...
第 421 頁 - French heels,' had a short, mincing step- pinched figures, pale faces, weak nerves, much affectation, a delicate helplessness and miserable health. Physicians prescribed exercise, but to little purpose. Then came that event which is the beginning or end of everything — the French Revolution. The Parisian women, amongst other restraints, salutary or the contrary, emancipated themselves from their stays, and kicked off their petits talons.
第 92 頁 - Majesty and about two thousand of his loving subjects. The river was thronged with gilded barges and boats covered with streamers and crowded with gaily-dressed people ; the shores were all alive with the multitude. In the midst of the gay show I looked down the stream upon the old, deserted, half-demolished bridge, silent remembrancer of seven centuries. I thought of it fortified with a lofty gate at either end, and encumbered with a row of houses on each side. I beheld it the scene of tournaments...