 I yet find a worth and greatness in herself, and a consistency, benevolence, perseverance in her practice, such as wins the sincerest esteem and affection. She is not a person to be judged by her writings alone, but rather by her own deeds and life, than...  Christian Examiner and Theological Review - Page 1421857Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 640 pages
...qualities the most estimable and endearing. Of my kind hostess herself, I cannot speak in terms too high. Without being able to share all her opinions, philosophical,...than which nothing can be more exemplary or nobler. She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no sort of credit to herself for her active... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Authors, English - 1857 - 352 pages
...qualities the most estimable and endearing. Of my kind hostess herself, I cannot speak in terms too high. Without being able to share all her opinions, philosophical,...than which nothing can be more exemplary or nobler. She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no sort of credit to herself for 'her active... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 594 pages
...that lady at Ambleside, Miss Bronte declares: ' Of my kind hostess I cannot speak in terms too high. Without being able to share all her opinions, philosophical,...benevolence, perseverance in her practice, such as win the sincerest esteem and affection. . . . . She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Authors, English - 1858 - 598 pages
...share all her opinions, philosophical, political, or religious,—without adopting her theories,—I yet find a worth and greatness in herself, and a consistency,...than which nothing can be more exemplary or nobler. She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no sort of credit to herself for her active... | |
 | Women - 1859 - 312 pages
...that lady at Ambleside, Miss Bronte declares : " Of my kind hostess I cannot speak in terms too high. Without being able to share all her opinions, philosophical,...benevolence, perseverance in her practice, such as win the sincerest esteem and affection. . . . She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes... | |
 | Women - 1861 - 330 pages
...that lady at Ambleside, Misa Bronte declares: " Of my kind hostess I cannot speak in terms too high. Without being able to share all her opinions, philosophical,...benevolence, perseverance in her practice, such as win the sincerest esteem and affection She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...share all her opinions, philosophical, political, or religions,—without adopting her theories,—I yet find a worth and greatness in herself, and a consistency,...than which nothing can be more exemplary or nobler. She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no sort of credit to herself for her active... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 pages
...qualities the most estimable and endearing. Of my kind hostess herself, I cannot speak in terms too high. Without being able to share all her opinions, philosophical,...than which nothing can be more exemplary or nobler. She seems to me the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no sort of credit to herself for her active... | |
 | English periodicals - 1877 - 520 pages
...friends various emphatic accounts of her hostess. " Without adopting her theories," Miss Bronte said, "I yet find a worth and greatness in herself, and...life, than which nothing can be more exemplary or noble." The division which Miss Bronte thus makes between opinions and character, and again between... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Authors, English - 1877 - 501 pages
...greatness in herself, and a consistency and benevolence and perseverance in her practice, such as win the sincerest esteem and affection. She is not a person...than which nothing can be more exemplary or nobler. She seems to me to be the benefactress of Ambleside, yet takes no sort of credit to herself for her... | |
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