 ... and agitations above the level of common existence, which may employ the remaining hour. Compassion, and every other virtue, are the great objects we all ought to have in view ; but no man (and no woman) can fill up the twenty-four hours by acts of...  The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Page 184by Sydney Smith - 1844Full view - About this book
 | 1810 - 554 pages
...delightful in women as the benevolent virtues ; but time cannot be filled up, and life employed, with high and impassioned virtues. Some of these feelings...compassionate from eight o'clock in the morning till twelve a£ night ; and what are they to do in the interval ? This is the only question we have been putting... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1810 - 462 pages
...acts of virtue. But one is a lawyer, and the other a ploughman, and the third a merchant; and theiis acts of goodness, and intervals of compassion and...in the interval ? This is the only question we have άεεν putting all along, and is all that can be meant by literary education. Then, again, as to... | |
 | Allison Wrifford - 1831 - 198 pages
...for scenes of distress and anguish. Nurse father, mother, sister and brother, if they want it;it would be a violation of the plainest duties to neglect...compassionate from eight o'clock in the morning till twelve ?t night; and what are they to do in the interval? This is the only question we have been putting... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...common occupations of life, do not let us mistake the accidents for the occupations; when we arc arguing how the twentythree hours of the day are to...morning till twelve at night; and what are they lodo in the interval? This is the only question we have been putting all along, and is all that can... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pages
...But one is a lawyer, and Iho other a ploughman, and the third a merchant; and then, acts of goodne-s, } < L H L nt + d qEm @0 D, _ 6 i #ϔ ;f[... H_n5 E J , dSG P 8$c S#oT g~ .D æ b:+ 8 #j_ $ lilt twelve at night; and what are they todo in the interval ? This is the only question we have... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...one is a lawyer, and the other a ploughman, and the third a merchant; and then, acts of goodne.-s, and intervals of compassion and fine feeling, are...occupations of life. We know women are to be compassionate ; hut they cannot be compassionate from eight o'clock in the morning till twelve at night; and... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...acts of virtue. But one is a lawyer, and the other a ploughman, and the third a merchant ; and tben, acts of goodness and intervals of compassion, and...be compassionate ; but they cannot be compassionate fiom eight o'clock in the morning till twelve at night : and what are they to do in the interval... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1360 pages
...level of common existence, which may employ the remaining hour. Compassion, and every other virtue, arc the great objects we all ought to have in view ; but...only question we have been putting all along, and is nil that can be meant by literary education. Then, again, as to the notoriety which is incurred by... | |
 | 1859 - 136 pages
...female education, namely, that the true theatre for a woman is the sick chamber, he observes : ' We know women are to be compassionate, * but they cannot be compassionate from eight we erely ne gravely commences : we shall probably 'great offence by such indiscretion, but still... | |
 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell - 1860 - 378 pages
...ayiunsL female education, namely, that the true theatre for a woman is the sick chamber, he observes : *We know women are to be compassionate, * but they...from * eight o'clock in the morning till twelve * at ni'i'lit ; and what are they to do ia 'the interval?* Or where, in notidni: Hannah More's Ccelebs in... | |
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