Harriet Martineau's Autobiography ...J. R. Osgood, 1877 |
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Página 372 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Página 469 - Christianity upon the subject of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body; but this was to be presumed, because Freemasonry is truth, and all truth must be identical.
Página 220 - If the riches of both Indies, if the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet, in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Página 15 - I was almost the youngest of a large family, and subject, not only to the rule of severity to which all were liable, but also to the rough and contemptuous treatment of the elder children, who meant no harm, but injured me irreparably.
Página 3 - It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can.
Página 287 - Orion," &c.) wishing that the three heads, — Hunt's, Home's and Carlyle's, — could be sketched in a group. Home's perfectly white complexion, and somewhat coxcombical curling whiskers and determined picttiresqueness contrasted curiously with the homely manliness of Hunt's fine countenance, and the rugged face, steeped in genius, of Carlyle. I have seen Carlyle's face under all aspects, from the deepest gloom to the most reckless or most genial mirth ; and it seemed to me that each mood would...
Página 108 - I began to feel the blessing of a wholly new freedom. I, who had been obliged to write before breakfast, or in some private way, had henceforth liberty to do my own work in my own way ; for we had lost our gentility.
Página 266 - He has insight, experience, sympathy, letters, power and grace of expression, and an irrepressible impulse to utterance, and industry which should have produced works of the noblest quality; and these have been intercepted by mischiefs which may be called misfortune rather than fault. His friendly temper, his generous heart, his excellent conversation (at his best), and his simple manners (when he forgot himself), have many a time 'left me mourning' that such a being should allow himself to sport...
Página 289 - Yellow as a guinea, with downcast eyes, broken speech at the beginning, and fingers which nervously picked at the desk before him, he could not for a moment be supposed to enjoy his own effort ; and the lecturer's own enjoyment is a prime element of success.
Página 151 - Weal and Woe in Garveloch," the perspiration many a time streamed down my face, though I knew there was not a line in it which might , not be read aloud in any family.