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Chapter 10: a chapter about myself
If I may sum up in one term the leading bent of my life, I will simply call myself a student.
Dr. Howe used to say of me: Mrs. Howe is not a great reader, but she always studies.
Albeit my intellectual pursuits have always been such as to task my mind, I cannot boast that I have acquireMrs. Howe is not a great reader, but she always studies.
Albeit my intellectual pursuits have always been such as to task my mind, I cannot boast that I have acquired much in the way of technical erudition.
I have only drawn from history and philosophy some understanding of human life, some lessons in the value of thought for thought's sake, and, above all, a sense of the dignity of character above every other dignity.
Goethe chose well for his motto the words:—
Die Zeit ist mein Vormacht ipline and instruction which I, never having received, was quite unable to give them.
During the first years of my residence at the Institution for the Blind, Dr. Howe delighted in inviting his friends to weekly dinners, which cost me many unhappy hours.
My want of training and of forethought often caused me to forget some ver
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 11 : anti-slavery attitude: literary work: trip to Cuba (search)
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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 12 : the Church of the Disciples : in war time (search)
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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 13 : the Boston Radical Club: Dr. F. H. Hedge (search)
Chapter 18: certain clubs
At a tea-party which took place quite early in my club career, Dr. Holmes expatiated at some length upon his own unfitness for club association of any kind.
He then turned to me and said, Mrs. Howe, I consider you eminently clubable.
The hostess of the occasion was Mrs. Josiah Quincy, Jr., a lady of much mark in her day, interested in all matters of public importance, and much given to hospitality.
I shall make the doctor's remark the text for a chapter giving some account of various clubs in which I have had membership and office.
The first of these was formed in the early days of my residence in Boston.
It was purely social in design, and I mention it here only because it possessed one feature which I have never seen repeated.
It consisted of ten or more young women, mostly married, and all well acquainted with one another.
Our meetings took place fortnightly, and on the following plan.
Each of us was allowed to invite one or two gentlemen