Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and MarriedC. Scribner and Company, 1870 - 235 pagina's |
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Pagina 22
... kind of reading , and if any- where in it they can find countenance for the pol- icy of early marriage , they are delighted . Now , while I will be the last to deny the purifying and elevating influence of pure and elevated women , I do ...
... kind of reading , and if any- where in it they can find countenance for the pol- icy of early marriage , they are delighted . Now , while I will be the last to deny the purifying and elevating influence of pure and elevated women , I do ...
Pagina 28
... kind of wife you will want by- and - by . Go into female society if you can find that which will improve you , but not otherwise . You can spend your time better . Seek the society of good men . That is often more accessible to you than ...
... kind of wife you will want by- and - by . Go into female society if you can find that which will improve you , but not otherwise . You can spend your time better . Seek the society of good men . That is often more accessible to you than ...
Pagina 34
... tributary in the general effect , and so ex- clusively tributary that people cannot tell after seeing you what kind of clothes you wear . They will only remember that you look well , and somehow 34 TITCOMB'S LETTERS .
... tributary in the general effect , and so ex- clusively tributary that people cannot tell after seeing you what kind of clothes you wear . They will only remember that you look well , and somehow 34 TITCOMB'S LETTERS .
Pagina 35
... kind of protest from the employed . Counsel to dress well is dangerous , is it ? But everybody now dresses extravagantly ; and , as extravagant dressing is usually very far from good dressing , I think that the danger of exciting ...
... kind of protest from the employed . Counsel to dress well is dangerous , is it ? But everybody now dresses extravagantly ; and , as extravagant dressing is usually very far from good dressing , I think that the danger of exciting ...
Pagina 36
... kind , become elegant themselves , and receive and evolve a glory which costs absolute- ly nothing at all , except a few brains , some consid- eration , and the reading of this letter . One sees the demonstration of this in travelling ...
... kind , become elegant themselves , and receive and evolve a glory which costs absolute- ly nothing at all , except a few brains , some consid- eration , and the reading of this letter . One sees the demonstration of this in travelling ...
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Titcomb's Letters to Young People: Single and Married Josiah Gilbert Holland Volledige weergave - 1864 |
Titcomb's Letters to Young People: Single and Married Josiah Gilbert Holland Volledige weergave - 1864 |
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accomplishments acquisition Battle of Prague beautiful become believe Benjamin Franklin blessed body companion counsel cravat delight desire despise disgust dress duty elevate Elihu Burritt enjoy eyes fact Fanny Kemble feel female society friends Georgiana girl give godless woman grow hands happy heart heaven honor human husband idea influence JOHN LEDYARD kind labor letter ligion live locomotive look man's manhood manly marriage married mean ment mind moral mother nabit nature ness never obliged passion pathy perverted pleasant polite possess poverty receive religion remember ruminantia seek selfish sion slow match social soul spind spirit suppose sweet talk taste tell thing thought tion tobacco total depravity track true true woman uncertain path vulgar fractions wear wife wish womanhood women word worth young woman
Populaire passages
Pagina 37 - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day, But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Pagina 135 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Pagina 59 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Pagina 177 - Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Pagina 68 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures,- love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Pagina 208 - In the homes of America are born the children of America, and from them go out into American life American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them, and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
Pagina 13 - A young man, bred at home and growing up in the light of parental admiration and fraternal pride, cannot readily understand how it is that every one else can be his equal in talent and acquisition. If, bred in the country, he seeks the life of the town, he will very early obtain an idea of his insignificance.
Pagina 166 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hateth his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
Pagina 22 - Ohy woman! lovely woman! nature made thee .To temper man : we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you : There's in you all that we believe of Heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Pagina 60 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.