The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
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The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.
Notes criticising Max Müller’s views on language and Darwinism.