Xlvj Social TwittersMacmillan, 1879 - 288 páginas |
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Página 93 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Página 166 - Give me joy, George. Crown me, shadow me with laurels ! Well, George, after all, we modest fellows don't want for success among the women.
Página 259 - Clavigera he defines women's work without any reference to nursing. He says they are to please people, to feed them in dainty ways, to clothe them, to keep them orderly, and to teach them. He says not a word about nursing them in sickness ; possibly he contemplates the institution of "Euthanasia.
Página 258 - ... he has many things to suffer before he gets well. At first, perhaps, he will be allowed to sit up hours when minutes were the doctor's orders. He is able to persuade his nurse to give him a tumbler of claret, when the medical allowance was a wine-glass. He is allowed to see the newspaper for a few minutes, and he reads an exciting novel. He is permitted to see a visitor, and has a room full of company. He is overloaded with muffling when he takes his first walk, and is allowed to sit on a cold...
Página 19 - ... into the full light of day, and the honeymoon is the prelude to a married life in which indifference will rank almost as a virtue. Indifference may be attained by various means ; it visits the cottage as well as the castle ; but the honeymoon too often secures it, and many a bridegroom but just returned from a " delightful tour on the Continent...
Página 166 - Ha! ha! ha! They're safe however. What an unaccountable set of beings have we got amongst! This little bar-maid though runs in my head most strangely, and drives out the absurdities of all the rest of the family. She's mine, she must be mine, or I'm greatly mistaken.
Página 129 - While the present scarcity of husbands lasts, it might be worth while to try an experiment which, without unfitting girls to be good wives, would make them better and happier old maids. A man does not make a bad husband because he has a profession. A woman who knew that in remaining single she did not leave herself without interest and occupation would both double her chances of marriage and be able to judge calmly of an offer when it comes.
Página 256 - The fire is alternately half extinct and blazing up the chimney. There is no care to have it warm at sunrise and sunset, and moderate when the sun is shining and the air warm. The invalid is awakened from a priceless sleep by hearing the cinders fall on the unprotected fender, or by the noise of a clumsy hand putting on coals, which might easily have been wrapped in pieces of damp paper and left ready for noiseless use. The morning meal is perhaps delayed until the patient has passed from appetite...
Página 258 - ... all diseases of the respiratory organs the importance of care in adjusting the temperature, especially at night, is seldom thought of ; yet a little trouble taken in time has often saved a delicate constitution from falling into consumption. Even in a bad climate it is only by experiment that any one can tell how far this terror of all families may be escaped. People are wholly demoralized by fear when its name is mentioned. Medical men who hesitate to use the word, knowing what despair it will...
Página 136 - The same income which enabled a middleclass family to live in comfort twenty years ago will not do so now. This is partly because of the rise in prices, but chiefly because many things which used to come under the head of the luxuries of life have now become its necessaries.