Jackanapes. Daddy Darwin's dovecot. The story of a short life (1887)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885, Eden, Horatia K. F. Gatty · Boston, Roberts Brothers · leaf 175
ith which civilization andthe powers of goodness push their conquests overbrutality and the powers of evil, had added to theoriginal duties of the parish priest, a multifarious andall but impracticable variety of offices ; which, in ordi-nary and laic conditions, would have been performedby several… … BAG-KEEPING v. BOOK-KEEPING. II vant agencies, caterers for the public amusement, andpreservers of the public peace. The country parson (no less than statesmen andprinces, than men of science and of letters) is respon-sible for a great deal of his work that is really doneby the help-mate — woman.…
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