The Inheritance, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1894 First published in 1824, The Inheritance is the second novel by Susan Ferrier (1782-1854). Following the triumph of her more famous work Marriage (1818), The Inheritance picks up Ferrier's favoured theme of tried and tested morality. The focus here is on the fortunes of the young and innocent Gertrude St.Clair, who through the machinations of the desperate Mrs. St.Clair, leaves their home in France and arrives as heir apparent to the Scottish estate of Rossville. Contrary to the Earl of Rossville's plans however, Gertrude refuses the hand of the prepared suitor and instead falls under the spell of the ambitious and dashing Colonel Delmour. Ignoring the presence and guiding hand of the measured Edward Lyndsay who truly loves her, Gertrude throws herself into the bewitching gaieties of the fashionable world leaving all sense of duty behind her. Shadowing her light footsteps however is the figure of a mysterious and demanding stranger whose claim on Gertrude is to shape a very different future for her. Humanising the strain of evangelism in the novel is the inclusion of a collection of highly amusing and colourful characters, which, as noted in the new introduction, helps to display The Inheritance as 'a novel which shows Ferrier's skills as a satirist and caricaturist in their best light and that remains moreover one of the greatest examples of domestic fiction in the Scottish literary tradition'. --Ronnie Young. |
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... feelings, and honor the feelings of others, when you engage in intellectual arguments or discussionsaboutwhat needs to bedone? The goalof these applications isto illustrate howtaking feelings seriously, and including them in discussions ...
... feelings, and honor the feelings of others, when you engage in intellectual arguments or discussionsaboutwhat needs to bedone? The goalof these applications isto illustrate howtaking feelings seriously, and including them in discussions ...
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... feelings both from “grander passions like anger and fear” (partly understood as grandbecause they can motivate people todo things, even grandthings) andbad feelings like shameand melancholiaand sympathy thatare associatedwith(orcan ...
... feelings both from “grander passions like anger and fear” (partly understood as grandbecause they can motivate people todo things, even grandthings) andbad feelings like shameand melancholiaand sympathy thatare associatedwith(orcan ...
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... feelings. While I agree that feelings areneither good norbad, I prefer totalkabout them as congruent withthe stimuli that produce them. But this construction—“Feelings are neitherright nor wrong; they just are”—devalues theuse ...
... feelings. While I agree that feelings areneither good norbad, I prefer totalkabout them as congruent withthe stimuli that produce them. But this construction—“Feelings are neitherright nor wrong; they just are”—devalues theuse ...
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... feelings. e Positive to Negative Feelings Ratio Your brain has several mechanisms that promote their fitness, by generating positive and negative feelings. ey generate positive feelings when you do something (or something happens to you) ...
... feelings. e Positive to Negative Feelings Ratio Your brain has several mechanisms that promote their fitness, by generating positive and negative feelings. ey generate positive feelings when you do something (or something happens to you) ...
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... feelings and then move on to a more positive view based on rational analysis, once the presentation began she allowed herself to “talk from the heart.” The feelings she expressed were real feelings, and she expressed them authentically ...
... feelings and then move on to a more positive view based on rational analysis, once the presentation began she allowed herself to “talk from the heart.” The feelings she expressed were real feelings, and she expressed them authentically ...
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