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      Jezm Herhst In Wales. (A.N Autumn In Wal...

      legs and stuck housings out , horizontall that he was y in the scarcel air . y to be decided seen at all , and from the Sarah piper ' s "

      guard " The , and request then followed for admission a charge was in met which by the a _pij _) er was negative unhorsed , and the ' s large _bouquet in the bridegroom ' s hat reduced to a bunch with of stalks miht . The and

      main battle to lasted a chorus a full of hour Homeric , the laug piper hter all at the the while various blowing disasters that befel g . * * The final assaultat which the bride herself was seen standing at the

      windowwas made— , fortunately not like that on the gates , with staves and crowbars , —but with verses , with which it is customary their for each stock party and to keep

      longer up a brisk answer fire ; till the one bridegroom or the other ' s party come being s to , the we presume end of , usually victorious can no in the contest . On the final capitulation , when the bolts of wild the house hallo -door bear are off

      the withdrawn fair captive , the , assailants pursued at rush full in gallop , and b with y the whoop friends and of the bride . o * * Beneath the declivity of the Penmaenmawr , the robber that troop mi was ht over h -

      fancied taken by a Sarah real skirmish ' s guard , was and there going was on , such while a cuffs tumult and , whacks one were g inter ave - changed , that would have seemed to me no joke at all and . her Poor Sarah strove was

      in most the to most be pitied unceremonious , as she was the way centre to recover of the possession struggle , of her . guard But she was finall of Llanpairfechan y borne off' in and triump there h b throug y Owen h and the instrumentality his fifty merry-men of the to vicar the church bound

      for cluded life with to her a captor grand , . disp In lay addition , of improvisation to other , festivities which , if , the the author wedding has , con not - drawn rather on his imagination than his memorydisplayed

      surprising-, poetical capabilities in the people . " We are not sufficiently acquainted with the subject , either to

      vouch for , or contradict his details .

      278 On The Social Position Of Women.

      278 ON THE SOCIAL POSITION OF WOMEN .

      Xxxyiii.—Olst The Social Position Of Wom...

      XXXYIII . _—OlST THE SOCIAL POSITION OF WOMEN " IN THE XIXth CENTURY . *

      «&» ¦ Countries From The With Marke Resp...

      _«&» ¦ From the marked injustice civil to which hts woman it is relief is still to turn exposed to the in most

      countrieswith respect to her rig , a proud field position of intellectual which , , in our exertion age , she . In has Eng won land for , in herself _Northern and and still Central retains Europe in the , of the vast American Continentthere is end to

      and throughout one half , an earl intricate the able theory to days the paths , of vanity once the in so generation science of thoroug the , other wholl hl which y wedded sex y inaccessible , is that fast to there fading the convictions are to the heig female from hts , because in among literature mind . so us agree In , as and the in

      that y which immediately preceded it , we know that away the education of women , if bestowed at allwas confined to the shallowest of acquirements and the most superficial and sufficient of , accomp acquaintance lishments . with In coii olite rtly hraseology circles , a few were external enough

      graces , a pp to cotillon constitute correctl the wom or to an execute of refinement such airs . as If lay able within to dance the moderate a minuet compass , or a

      and rude execution _y , of her spinnet ; if yersed in the mysteries of Ombre and Bassettand competent to take share in the frivolous small talk , which then

      claim went b to y , the the title name of In wit the and country repartee the , time little of more the was wives required and daug to hters justif of y the her

      landed store-chamber aristocracy with . seems such to occasional have been mental divided recreation between the as still could -room be gathered and the ,

      , * Extracts from a Lecture delivered to the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Soci

      ety , by James Rollings , Esq .

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    • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/62/