Emma Jane Austen & Today

Being a woman, who has lived and have seen not anything much new that anyone else who ever lived and have seen before- has allowed me to find the "pleasure" if you may call it such, of having the privilege of having Jane Austen quote a portion of the trials of my mind to the world.

Please enjoy: a portion of Emma - by Jane Austen
& a portion of my feelings.

"A man," said he, "must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave
their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must
think himself a most agreeable fellow; I could not do such a thing. It is the greatest
absurdity—Actually snowing at this moment!— The folly of not allowing people to be
comfortable at home—and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they
can! If we were obliged to go out such an evening as this, by any call of duty or business, what
a hardship we should deem it;—and here are we, probably with rather thinner clothing than
usual, setting forward voluntarily, without excuse, in defiance of the voice of nature, which
tells man, in every thing given to his view or his feelings, to stay at home himself, and keep all
under shelter that he can;—here are we setting forward to spend five dull hours in another
man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not
be said and heard again to-morrow. Going in dismal weather, to return probably in
worse;—four horses and four servants taken out for nothing but to convey five idle, shivering
creatures into colder rooms and worse company than they might have had at home"
Emma by Jane Austen p 137 chapter XIII (13)

The Housewife; or The Muse Learning to Ride the Great Horse Heroic. BY: ELIZABETH MOODY

O thou that with deciding voice oft sways
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DEAR MARY EL.... I can't find an online copy of this and it will take me a while to type out.. but please look this poem up and if you can't find it i'll type it up or take a picture...