Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and MarriedC. Scribner and Company, 1870 - 235 pagina's |
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Pagina 19
... Never allow yourself to be seduced from this course . You will hear of young men who have made fortunes in some wild speculations . Pity them ; for they will almost certainly lose their easily won success . thing . Are you in love ...
... Never allow yourself to be seduced from this course . You will hear of young men who have made fortunes in some wild speculations . Pity them ; for they will almost certainly lose their easily won success . thing . Are you in love ...
Pagina 24
... Never content yourself with the idea of having a common - place wife . You want one who will stimulate you , stir you up , keep you moving , show you your weak points , and make something of you . Don't fear that you cannot get such a ...
... Never content yourself with the idea of having a common - place wife . You want one who will stimulate you , stir you up , keep you moving , show you your weak points , and make something of you . Don't fear that you cannot get such a ...
Pagina 26
... never expects to marry , I always infer one of two things : that he lies , and is really very anxious for marriage , or that his heart has been polluted by association with unworthy women . In a thousand cases we shall not find three ...
... never expects to marry , I always infer one of two things : that he lies , and is really very anxious for marriage , or that his heart has been polluted by association with unworthy women . In a thousand cases we shall not find three ...
Pagina 27
... never be afraid of a woman . Women are the most harmless and agreeable creatures in the world , to a man who shows that he has got a man's soul in him . If you have not got the spirit in you to come up to a test like this , you have not ...
... never be afraid of a woman . Women are the most harmless and agreeable creatures in the world , to a man who shows that he has got a man's soul in him . If you have not got the spirit in you to come up to a test like this , you have not ...
Pagina 29
... never be safe against the seductive temptations of gaiety and dress . Then , again , a man who has the prayers of a pious wife , and knows that he has them - upheld by heaven , or by a refined sense of obligation and gratitude can ...
... never be safe against the seductive temptations of gaiety and dress . Then , again , a man who has the prayers of a pious wife , and knows that he has them - upheld by heaven , or by a refined sense of obligation and gratitude can ...
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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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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.