James's expedition to Scotland...
James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.
A woman without a degree of de...
A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
Refinement is just as much a C...
Refinement is just as much a Christian grace in a man as in a woman; but he is not such a hateful, unsexed creature without it as a woman is.
That the women of the Old Test...
That the women of the Old Testament were dressed with oriental richness there is no doubt, nor are they censured for so arraying themselves.
If the man be really the weake...
If the man be really the weaker vessel, and the rule is necessarily in the wife's hands, how is it then to be? To tell the truth, I believe that the really loving, good wife never finds it out. She keeps the glamor of love and loyalty between herself and her husband, and so infuses herself into him that the weakness never becomes apparent either to her or to him or to most lookers-on.
The mistake we make is when we...
The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.
General rules are dangerous of...
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.
The unmarried woman seldom esc...
The unmarried woman seldom escapes a widowhood of the spirit. There is sure to be some one, parent, brother, sister, friend, more comfortable to her than the day, with whom her life is so entwined that the wrench of parting leaves a torn void never entirely healed or filled ...
If I write nothing but fiction...
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
I thought one only had to spea...
I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.
When the venture has been made...
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.
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