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Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
Purity, dual relations between the sexes, 207;
physical and mental, 208;
opposite views of Catholic and Protestant of the marriage of
Anglican clergymen, _ib._;
Catholic horror at the marriage of a bishop, 209;
opposite views of marriage with a deceased wife’s sister, _ib._;
illegitimate unions in the lower classes, _ib._;
tolerated in artists and writers, 210;
Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet, French opinion, 211;
Lewes and Liszt, 212;
immorality in great cities, _ib._;
French novels no evidence of French immorality, 213;
crimes frequent in all imaginary literature, _ib._;
especially in English novels, 214;
French novelists and their readers, 215, 216;
pure literature in France, 219;
misrepresentation of French lubricity, 220;
extreme cases of vice, 221;
social penalties, _ib._;
rustic morals in England and France, 221;
unmarried girls in middle and upper classes, 223;
French and Anglican clergy, _ib._;
soldiers and sailors, 224;
student life in France and England, _ib._;
Scotch and French students, 225;
French and English schools, 226;
domestic life in Paris, 227;
conflicting views of marriage, 228;
moral pride of the English, 229;
want of it in France, 230;
worship of the Virgin Mary, 231;
moral feeling in England stronger than in France, 232
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Railways, just and unjust accounts of, 205;
Mr. Ruskin’s diatribe, _ib._
Rank, associated as with education in France and England, 56.
See Education
Regattas in France, 8;
clubs, 9
Religion, changed by political revolution, 118;
denial of Christianity or of the authority of the Scriptures a
criminal offence under English law, 118;
dislike of dissenters to be treated as inferiors, 132
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