The Diadem; A Souvenier for the Drawing Room and Parlor, and Gift Book for All Seasons: Illustrated With Twelve Steel Engravings, by the First Artists (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Percival, Emily

9780483903432: The Diadem; A Souvenier for the Drawing Room and Parlor, and Gift Book for All Seasons: Illustrated With Twelve Steel Engravings, by the First Artists (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0483903434 ISBN 13: 9780483903432

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from The Diadem; A Souvenier for the Drawing Room and Parlor, and Gift Book for All Seasons: Illustrated With Twelve Steel Engravings, by the First Artists

DO not flatter yourself, my dear Florence, replied her friend, with such a fallacious hope. Medhurst's mental improvement is, indeed, likely to be a complete dissolv ing view; he will want leisure, ability, and inclination for the heavy, uphill work of 'the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.' We have read together the amusing story of Crabbe's, where a husband becomes the tutor of his silly wife, persuading himself that he shall remedy all her intellectual deficiencies; but is there not something more than amusing - is there not something epigram matic in the idea of a wife 'teaching the young idea how to shoot' of a dull and mindless husband?

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