 ... ministering to the rest, she has been kept in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming to the denouement, when the positions, will be changed;...  The New Teaching - Page 146edited by - 1918 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1857 - 476 pages
...in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming...highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme." What is meant by the term "haughty sisters" is the languages and mathematics, and the prediction that... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 620 pages
...in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming...highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme. 1859.] THE TEUTONIC TRIBES IN ENGLAND. From the London Review. THE TEUTONIC TRIBES IN ENGLAND; OR THE... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 618 pages
...in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming to the dénouement, when the positions will be changed ; and while these haughty sisters sink into merited... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1861 - 182 pages
...back-ground that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world." Soon " the positions will be changed, and while these haughty sisters sink into merited contempt, science, proclaimed as highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme." * Lord Bacon... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Education - 1864 - 324 pages
...in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming to the d&nouement, when the positions will be changed ; and while these haughty sisters sink into merited... | |
 | Andrew John Ramsay - Canadian poetry - 1873 - 216 pages
...in the background, that' her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes ot the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming...denouement, when the positions will be changed ; and these haughty sisters sink into the merited neglect. Science, proclaimed as highest alike in worth... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Knowledge, Theory of - 1884 - 130 pages
...in the background, that her haughty sisters might flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming...highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme. THE ELZEVIR A Weekly Magazine. [Entered at the Post-Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter.] VoL.... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...are fast »ming to the denouement, when the positions rill be changed; and while these haughty asters agemann Pub. Co. keauty, will reign supreme. CHAPTER II. IHTELLKCTÜAL EDUCATION. I THERE cannot fail to be a relationship... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 628 pages
...kept in the background, that her haughty sisters may flaunt their fripperies in the eyes of the world. The parallel holds yet further. For we are fast coming...highest alike in worth and beauty, will reign supreme." Of intellectual education : — * While men dislike the things and places that suggest painful recollections,... | |
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