Maternal counsels to a daughterDarton and Company, 1855 - 312 pagina's |
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Pagina viii
... young girl launched for the first time into the ocean of life ? Up to that moment she has hardly had an existence of her own - her least action , and her most important one , have been alike dictated by others : now she claims the ...
... young girl launched for the first time into the ocean of life ? Up to that moment she has hardly had an existence of her own - her least action , and her most important one , have been alike dictated by others : now she claims the ...
Pagina x
... young captain starting on his first voyage in command , so I have ventured to impart to the youthful of my own sex some knowledge of the rocks on which they are most ... young gentlewoman I have added chapters , especially X INTRODUCTION .
... young captain starting on his first voyage in command , so I have ventured to impart to the youthful of my own sex some knowledge of the rocks on which they are most ... young gentlewoman I have added chapters , especially X INTRODUCTION .
Pagina xi
Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan. of every young gentlewoman I have added chapters , especially addressed to such as are under the necessity of earning their own living : how numerous is this class we all know , few of us but have seen ...
Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan. of every young gentlewoman I have added chapters , especially addressed to such as are under the necessity of earning their own living : how numerous is this class we all know , few of us but have seen ...
Pagina xii
... women be very greatly improved if they possessed a little of the common sense which distinguishes the character of English men . Those on whose judgment and knowledge of the world I could entirely rely have approved of my views , and ...
... women be very greatly improved if they possessed a little of the common sense which distinguishes the character of English men . Those on whose judgment and knowledge of the world I could entirely rely have approved of my views , and ...
Pagina 1
... the little extract which I have given above from the works of that eminent writer on education , Miss Edgeworth , is to be found the whole essence of the spirit in which a young lady should think of herself on her leaving school , B She ...
... the little extract which I have given above from the works of that eminent writer on education , Miss Edgeworth , is to be found the whole essence of the spirit in which a young lady should think of herself on her leaving school , B She ...
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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...