Maternal counsels to a daughterDarton and Company, 1855 - 312 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... thought that surely she would ride in safety through the roughest sea , and return unscathed from the perils of the longest voyage ! But alas ! a spark from a tiny lucifer may kindle flames which no human power can extinguish ! A small ...
... thought that surely she would ride in safety through the roughest sea , and return unscathed from the perils of the longest voyage ! But alas ! a spark from a tiny lucifer may kindle flames which no human power can extinguish ! A small ...
Pagina viii
... — she has become her own mistress ; she is fairly launched in her career . And how bright looks the ocean through which her course is to be steered ! How light her heart , how gay her thoughts as she viii INTRODUCTION .
... — she has become her own mistress ; she is fairly launched in her career . And how bright looks the ocean through which her course is to be steered ! How light her heart , how gay her thoughts as she viii INTRODUCTION .
Pagina ix
Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan. light her heart , how gay her thoughts as she prepares for her experimental trip :“ And long with eye and heart as glad , And brow as cloudless may she gaze , Nor mark how Vice , like Virtue clad , Walks ...
Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan. light her heart , how gay her thoughts as she prepares for her experimental trip :“ And long with eye and heart as glad , And brow as cloudless may she gaze , Nor mark how Vice , like Virtue clad , Walks ...
Pagina xi
... to me that the girls of the present day have too much sentiment , too much fanciful refinement for their own peace . I have thought that their everyday life would be infinitely happier , and the character of INTRODUCTION . xi.
... to me that the girls of the present day have too much sentiment , too much fanciful refinement for their own peace . I have thought that their everyday life would be infinitely happier , and the character of INTRODUCTION . xi.
Pagina 2
... thought and investigation will show us the fallacy of this idea . What is the probable destiny of a young girl ? and how far does her school education fit her for that destiny ? Let her ask herself these questions , a and she will soon ...
... thought and investigation will show us the fallacy of this idea . What is the probable destiny of a young girl ? and how far does her school education fit her for that destiny ? Let her ask herself these questions , a and she will soon ...
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Pagina 50 - And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury : for all they did cast in of their abundance ; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
Pagina 151 - Since Trifles make the Sum of human things And half our misery from our foibles springs...
Pagina 146 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, .
Pagina 181 - Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers ; but in singleness of heart, fearing God : and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men ; knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
Pagina 65 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Pagina 153 - And mistress of herself, though china fall. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man...
Pagina 111 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home 1 Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Pagina 59 - strained ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Pagina 149 - True love in this differs from gold and clay, That to divide is not to take away.
Pagina 13 - I asked an aged man, a man of cares, Wrinkled and curved, and white with hoary hairs ; " Time is the warp of life," he said, " Oh tell The young, the fair, the gay, to weave it well...