The River and the Desart: Or, Recollections of the Rhone and the Chartreuse, Volume 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838 - France |
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Page 38 - ... heart laid to rest. The dependence of woman in the common affairs of life is, nevertheless, rather the effect of custom than necessity. We have many and brilliant proofs that where need is, she can be sufficient to herself, and play her part in the great drama of existence with credit, if not with comfort. The yearnings of her solitary spirit, the outgushings of her shrinking sensibility, the cravings of her alienated heart, are indulged only in the quiet holiness of her solitude.
Page 217 - Dieu, qui n'êtes pas plus au ciel que sur la terre et dans les enfers, qui êtes présent partout, je ne veux ni ne désire que votre nom soit sanctifié : vous savez ce qui nous convient ; si vous voulez qu'il le soit, il le sera, sans que je le veuille et le désire. Que votre royaume arrive ou n'arrive pas, cela m'est indifférent. Je ne vous demande pas aussi que votre volonté soit faite en la terre comme au ciel : elle le sera malgré que j'en aie; c'est à moi à m'y résigner. Donnez-nous...
Page 218 - ... tant mieux. Si vous m'en punissez, au contraire, par la damnation, tant mieux encore, puisque c'est votre bon plaisir. Enfin, mon Dieu, je suis trop abandonnée à votre volonté pour vous prier de me délivrer des tentations et du péché.
Page 37 - There is beauty in the helplessness of woman. The clinging trust which searches for extraneous support is graceful and touching. Timidity is the attribute of her sex ; but to herself it is not without its dangers, its inconveniences, and its sufferings. Her first effort at comparative freedom is bitter enough ; for the delicate mind shrinks from every unaccustomed contact, and the warm and gushing heart closes itself, like the blossom of the sensitive plant, at every approach. Man may at once determine...
Page 218 - ... ne vous demande pas aussi que votre volonté soit faite en la terre comme au ciel , elle le sera malgré que j'en aie; c'est à moi à m'y résigner : donnez-nous à tous notre pain de tous les jours, qui est votre grâce, ou ne nous la...
Page 218 - ... m'y résigner. Donnez-nous à tous notre pain de tous les jours, qui est votre grâce, ou ne nous le donnez pas : je ne souhaite de l'avoir ni d'en être privée : de même, si vous me pardonnez mes crimes comme je pardonne à ceux qui m'ont offensée, tant mieux ; si vous m'en punissez, au contraire...
Page 38 - I fear me that, however she may appear to turn a calm brow and quiet lip to the crowd through which she makes her way, that brow throbs, and that lip quivers, to the last, until, like a wounded bird, she can once more wing her way to that tranquil home where the drooping head will be fondly raised, and the fluttering heart laid to rest ! The dependence of woman in the common affairs of life is, nevertheless, rather the effect of custom than necessity. We have many and brilliant proofs that, where...
Page 135 - Chartreuse, and their summers are brief and ungenial ; while the mountains which encircle their retreat attract the storms and rains of a prolonged and cheerless winter. If you can picture to yourself what the earth might have been when first called out of chaos, ere the Almighty hand had reduced it into order ; you will have a mental glimpse of the Carthusian Desart. Mighty...
Page 37 - ... efficiently. There is a beauty in the helplessness of woman. The clinging trust which searches for extraneous support is graceful and touching — timidity is the attribute of her sex ; but to herself it is not without its dangers, its inconveniences, and its sufferings.
Page 36 - ... upon the past. To women the task of partial self-reliance is necessarily tenfold more different and painful ; they are, both naturally and socially, more dependent than men ; they are watched from...