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"Once on a time 'twas not so very long ago Miss Puff craved something of Philosophy to know, And, with proofs of culture armed and high position, To a Summer School of Sages sought admission. "With inspiration rare, she here absorbed her fill Of ologies galore, and conned them o'er, until Her wearied brain grew dazed beyond expression; But, of this sad fact, Miss Puff made no confessions
He was on his way to pay a visit to his "good vicaire" at the vicarage, after giving his usual Wednesday lecture at the neighbouring "college for young ladies;" where, blooming misses in addition to their curriculum of "accomplishments" and "all the 'ologies" were taught the noble art of family multiplication, domestic division, male detraction, feminine sedition, and, the glorious rule of one!
Blendershin stared at Lewisham for a moment. "What's he done in the way of certificates?" asked Mr. Blendershin of the assistant. The assistant read a list of 'ologies and 'ographies. "Fifty resident," said Mr. Blendershin concisely "that's your figure. Sixty, if you're lucky." "What?" said Mr. Lewisham. "Not enough for you?" "Not nearly."
I shall submit it at least to my cousin Moses, as soon as he returns from the South. People may believe it or not. People may say it may be of practical use, or not. I shall overhaul my terminologies, and, with the "metaphysical aid" of my cousin, fit it with a scientific name which shall overtop all the ologies.
"That only shows a great want of taste on your part," said the old Sage, severely. "Isms and Ologies, and things of that sort, are very tasty, when you become used to them." "What are Isms and Ologies, if you please, Sir?" asked Marjorie. "Oh, there are various kinds," was the reply.
She had stuck bravely to the abridgments and the juvenile scraps of ologies, and had been altogether a model of propriety, sewing on such a number of strings and buttons during the period as can only be compassed by the maternal mind. Her existence had been by no means as joyless or desolate as such an existence is generally represented by the writer of fiction.
I soon discovered that, while I was sent to an ordinary charity school of the country, in threadbare breeches, made of the meanest material their own son a gentle and good, but puny boy, whom their indulgence injured, and, perhaps, finally destroyed was despatched to a fashionable institution which taught all sorts of ologies dressed in such choice broadcloth and costly habiliments, as to make him an object of envy and even odium among all his less fortunate school-fellows.
She was little, a very little blue, rather a dabbler in the "ologies," than a real disciple. Yet she made collections of minerals, and brown beetles, and cryptogamias, and various other homeopathic doses of the creation, infinitessimally small in their subdivision; in none of which I felt any interest, save in the excuse they gave for accompanying her in her pony-phaeton.
Our girls are acknowledged to be uncommonly pretty, witty and wise, but some of us wish they had more health and less excitement, more domestic accomplishments and fewer ologies and isms, and were contented with simple pleasures and the old-fashioned virtues, and not quite so fond of the fast, frivolous life that makes them old so soon. I am fond of our girls and boys.
I dipped into zoölogy, botany, geology, ornithology, and an infinite number of other ologies, as the activities of the club or of particular members of it gave me opportunity, but I made no systematic study of any branch of science; at least not until I went to college.
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