Constance Naden: A MemoirBickers & Son, 1890 - 91 ページ |
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65 ページ - I endeavoured to recall the ideas, they were feeble and indistinct; one collection of terms, however, presented itself: and with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, " Nothing exists but thoughts! — -the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains...
27 ページ - Evolution can end only in the establishment of the greatest perfection and the most complete happiness.
37 ページ - No more ? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail ! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
29 ページ - Serene will be our days and bright And happy will our nature be When love is an unerring light, And joy its own security. And they a blissful course may hold Ev'n now, who, not unwisely bold, Live in the spirit of this creed ; Yet seek thy firm support, according to their need.
29 ページ - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust; And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred...
64 ページ - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
32 ページ - And were they false — ah well, she knows it not. Look in her face and lose thy dread of dying ; Weep not that rest will come, that toil will cease ; Is it not well to lie as she is lying, In utter silence, and in perfect peace ? Canst thou repine that sentient days are numbered ? Death is unconscious Life, that waits for birth ; So didst thou live, while yet thine embryo slumbered, Senseless, unbreathing, even as heaven and earth.
60 ページ - I take this important one to be, viz., that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth — in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world — have not any substance without a mind...
74 ページ - Similarly, under special discipline the feminine intellect will yield products higher than the intellects of most men can yield. But we are not to count this productivity as truly feminine if it entails decreased fulfilment of the maternal functions. Only that mental energy is normally feminine, which can co-exist with the production and nursing of the due number of healthy children.
74 ページ - ... and the receptivity may, and frequently does, exist in high degree where there is but a low degree of originality, or entire absence of it. Perhaps, however, the most serious error usually made in drawing these comparisons is that of overlooking the limit of normal mental power. Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other; but we are not to consider the deviations so caused as affording proper measures. Thus, to take an extreme case,...