The Women of England Their Social Duties And Domestic Habits
The Women of England Their Social Duties And Domestic Habits
Sarah Stickney Ellis
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Self-importance, or rather a prevailing con- sciousness of self, is the most universal hinderance to the attainment of agreeable manners. A woman of delicate feelings and cultivated mind, who goes into company determined to he interested, rather than to interest, can scarcely fail to please. We are assured, however, that in this respect there is something very defective in the present state of society. All desire to make an impression, none to be impressed ; and thus the social intercourse of e...very day is rendered wearisome if not disgust- ing, by the constant struggle of each contending party to assume the same relative position. An instance relating immediately to an anima. Of inferior grade in the creation to man, but bear- ing some affinity to the case in point, is told by a traveller, whose party having shot several old monkeys, took home their young ones to the camp THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND. 115 where he was stationed. He amused himself in the evening by watching these little animals, which had been so accustomed to be caressed and carried about by their parents, that they expected the same services from each other, and by their persevering efforts to obtain assistance from those who in an equal degree required it from them, formed themselves into a tumultuous heap, and nearly worried each other to death.
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