Letters from the Mountains: Being the Real Correspondence of a Lady, Between the Years 1773 and 1807 : in Three Volumes, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807 - Authors, English |
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Page 251 - Resistless rushing o'er th' enfeebled South, And gave the vanquished world another form. Not such the sons of Lapland : wisely they Despise th' insensate barbarous trade of war; They ask no more than simple nature gives, They love their mountains, and enjoy their storms. No false desires, no pride-created wants, .Disturb the peaceful current of their time, And through the restless ever-tortured maze Of pleasure or ambition, bid it rage.
Page 273 - Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever: One foot on sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
Page 272 - ... and it is of so little consequence whether it happens or not, that there is no reason why Scripture, custom, and nature, should be set at defiance, to erect up a system of education for qualifying women to act parts which Providence has not assigned to the sex. Where a woman has those superior powers of mind to which we give the name of genius, she will exert them under all disadvantages : Jean Jacques says truly, genius will educate itself, and, like flame, burst through all obstructions. Certainly...
Page 273 - What, as I said before, has she done? shewed us all the miseries of our condition; robbed us of the only sure remedy for the evils of life, the sure hope of a blessed immortality; and left for our comfort the rudiments of crude, unfinished systems, that crumble to nothing whenever you begin to examine the materials of which they are constructed. Come, let us for a moment shut the Bible, and listen to Mary. Let us suppose intellect equally divided between the sexes. We may deceive the understanding,...
Page 134 - The bard, as I was about to tell you, is as great a favourite of fortune as of fame, and has got more by the old harp of Ossian than most of his predecessors could draw out of the silver strings of Apollo. He has bought three small estates in this country within two years, given a ball to the ladies, and made other exhibitions of wealth and liberality.
Page 272 - Creating hot-beds for female genius, is merely another way of forcing exotic productions, which, after all, are mere luxuries, indifferent in their kind, and cost more time and expence than they are worth. As to superiority of mental powers, Mrs. W. is doubtless the empress of female philosophers; yet what has she done for philosophy, or for the sex, but closed a ditch, to open a gulf? There is a degree of boldness in her conceptions, and masculine energy in her style, that is very imposing. There...
Page 270 - ... without and within is comfortless, is succeeded by a beautiful starlight evening, embellished with aurora borealis, as quick, as splendid, and as transient, as the play of the brightest female imagination: of these bad days succeeded by good nights, there may, perhaps, be a dozen in the season. What should we think of a projector, that, to enjoy the benefit of the one, and avoid the oppression of the other, should insist that people should sleep all day and work all night, the whole year round?...
Page 103 - ... country. We have seen that the trustees appointed under the Act annexing the forfeited estates to the Crown made praiseworthy attempts to encourage various industries; but the Highlander did not take readily to sedentary occupations.
Page 94 - I am determined my children shall all drink "from the pure wells of Celtic undefiled." They shall taste the animated and energetic conversation of the natives; and an early acquaintance with the poetry of nature shall guard them against false taste and affectation. I never desire to hear an English word out of their mouths till they are four or five years old.
Page 125 - Monday, being the day that all dwellers in glens come down for their supplies. Item, at four o'clock Donald arrives with a horse loaded with butter, cheese, and milk. The former I must weigh instantly. He only asks an additional blanket for the children, a covering for himself, two milk tubs...