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408 ACADEMY OF XYOETS.
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LIX. —QUESTION PROPOSED BY THE IMPERIAL
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frowsy , and undignified . And the other actual , present , pressing 1 claims u who pon seemed my activitie to have s a and sense my of sympathies all this wrongness prevented from the taking only
person a single direct step towards anything better . Supposing , however , that I had been a despotic monarch , what could
I have done ? Issue an edict that mothers should not give herring to babies with whooping-cough ? Or , turn Henry ' s father and mother
and the fellow-lodgers out of their filthy three-story wigwam , and the rase income to the ground of some the other same strugg , —thereb lerw y hose deduc dau ting h , t perhaps er miht , a get third of
, ggupon the streets , and ask me some day from a bed of torture , in a hospital , what right I had to interfere with her father ' s property ? No :
but there is one very simple thing which I might then get done , —• hall I mi , g for ht have ( say ) each every town square parcelle mile , in out which into dis public tricts , business with a public might
be transacted with dignity and solemnity . And I might , —and I for above would mark , too tt , —examine . thoug Yet , h upon a my cul second own tivated Coroner t man houg , ht and , I get mi see close gh that t go to he wrong the had brain there a soul and ;
hear , t of a clown you , , the clown generally resen may ts it as a liberty , and , however li hten may his behave darkness , says for " him Hit . On one the of your whole I conclude size , do ! " tha when t I coul you d
should quo do g ting thing think Mr but . it Carl worth grumble yle , while " , adde and to d leave absorb to the my such eternities moan an , to item b , " , as . if we the said eternities before ,
However , a night ' s sleep " knit up the ravelled sleeve" of my vexationsand the morninsent me to duty gaily enoughwith
indeed , more , than my usual g disposition to see things couleur de , rose , _* and an added experience bought with a headache . Cheap , perhaps , at
the price ; and certainly not a positively bad bargain . It .
408 Academy Of Xyoets.
408 ACADEMY OF _XYOETS .
Lix. —Question Proposed By The Imperial
LIX . _—QUESTION PROPOSED BY THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF LYONS . ( CLASS OP ARTS AND BELLES-LETTRES . )
" Mrs* Jameson Presents Her Compliments ...
" Mrs * Jameson presents her compliments to the Editors of The English Woman _^ Journaland has the pleasure of enclosing two
, documents which she has just received from Lyons , and which she thinks will prove valuable and interesting , as shewing the present
state of opinion among intelligent men relative to the condition and wages of the working women in France , and the influence of both
on the morals and happiness of the community at large . " Hep or t presented in the name of the Examining Commission ,
equality Ci Eighteen of - Man centuries and Woman have elapsed \ and since yet , Christianit notwithstanding y proclaimed 1 , civil and the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/48/
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