 ... been kept in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming to the denouement, when the positions will be changed; and while these haughty sisters...  Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical - Page 55by Herbert Spencer - 1861 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1857 - 476 pages
...conveniences and gratifications been obtained ; and, while ceaselessly occupied ministering to the rest, she has been kept in the background, that her haughty...highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme." What is meant by the term "haughty sisters" is the languages and mathematics, and the prediction that... | |
 | 1859 - 620 pages
...conveniences and gratifications been obtained ; and while ceaselessly occupied in ministering to the rest, she has been kept in the background, that her haughty...highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme. 1859.] THE TEUTONIC TRIBES IN ENGLAND. From the London Review. THE TEUTONIC TRIBES IN ENGLAND; OR THE... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...conveniences and gratifications been obtained ; and while ceaselessly occupied in ministering to the rest, she has been kept in the background, that her haughty...parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming to the dénouement, when the positions will be changed ; and while these haughty sisters sink into merited... | |
 | 1861 - 182 pages
...which science is made the "household drudge, who, while carelessly occupied ministering to the rest, has been kept in the back-ground that her haughty...flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world." Soon " the positions will be changed, and while these haughty sisters sink into merited contempt, science,... | |
 | Andrew John Ramsay - 1873 - 216 pages
...and gratifications been obtained; an.!, while ceaselessly occupied in ministering to the rest, she has been kept in the background, that' her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes ot the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming to the denouement, when the positions... | |
 | James Leitch - 1876 - 332 pages
...conveniences and gratifications have been due, and who has been kept in the background for centuries that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The day is at hand, however, when the positions will be changed, and science will reign supreme, highest... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1884 - 130 pages
...conveniences and gratifications been obtained; and while ceaselessly occupied ministering to the rest, she has been kept in the background, that her haughty...highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme. THE ELZEVIR A Weekly Magazine. [Entered at the Post-Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter.] VoL.... | |
 | 1894 - 916 pages
...are fast »ming to the denouement, when the positions rill be changed; and while these haughty asters agemann Pub. Co. keauty, will reign supreme. CHAPTER II. IHTELLKCTÜAL EDUCATION. I THERE cannot fail to be a relationship... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 628 pages
...ceaselessly ministering to the rest, she has been kept in the background, that her haughty sisters may flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world....highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme." Of intellectual education : — * While men dislike the things and places that suggest painful recollections,... | |
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