Victorian Prose: An AnthologyRosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher Columbia University Press, 27.08.1999 г. - 504 страници This engaging, informative collection of Victorian nonfiction prose juxtaposes classic texts and canonical writers with more obscure writings and authors in order to illuminate important debates in nineteenth-century Britain—inviting modern readers to see the age anew. The collection represents the voices of a broad scope of women and men on a range of nineteenth-century cultural issues and in various forms—from periodical essays to travel accounts, letters to lectures, and autobiographies to social surveys. |
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... believe that it is to be met with in any work exceeding fifty years in antiquity . The idea of comparing one's own age with former ages , or with our notion of those which are yet to come , has occurred to philosophers , but it never ...
... believe that Mrs. Pruden was in earnest , till I received orders for my immediate return . Dear Miss Fanny ! how she cried at parting with me , whilst I kissed and hugged the baby , thinking I should never see him again . I left Mrs ...
... believe the foreign people , 7 who deceive them , and say slaves are happy . I say , Not so . How can slaves be happy when they have the halter round their neck and the whip upon their back ? and are disgraced and thought no more of ...
... believe that the God , whom ancient , inspired men assert to be ' without variableness or shadow of turning , ' 5 does indeed never change ; that Nature , that the Universe , which no one whom it so pleases can be prevented from call ...
... Believe by it ; that our very Axioms , let us boast of Free- thinking as we may , are oftenest simply such Beliefs as we have never heard questioned . Nay , what is Philosophy throughout but a continual battle against Custom ; an ever ...
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LIX | 259 |
LX | 267 |
LXII | 270 |
LXIII | 273 |
LXV | 279 |
LXVII | 283 |
LXVIII | 287 |
LXX | 295 |
XX | 87 |
XXII | 93 |
XXIV | 101 |
XXVI | 107 |
XXVIII | 115 |
XXX | 121 |
XXXII | 131 |
XXXIII | 143 |
XXXV | 157 |
XXXVII | 165 |
XXXVIII | 175 |
XL | 183 |
XLII | 189 |
XLIV | 199 |
XLVI | 207 |
XLVIII | 215 |
L | 221 |
LII | 229 |
LIV | 235 |
LVI | 241 |
LVII | 247 |
LXXIII | 305 |
LXXV | 313 |
LXXVII | 319 |
LXXIX | 325 |
LXXXI | 329 |
LXXXII | 337 |
LXXXIV | 349 |
LXXXV | 359 |
LXXXVIII | 364 |
LXXXIX | 371 |
XC | 377 |
XCI | 385 |
XCIII | 393 |
XCIV | 401 |
XCV | 409 |
XCVIII | 417 |
C | 423 |
CII | 427 |
CIII | 449 |
CV | 455 |