Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and MarriedScribner,Armstrong & Company, 1872 |
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Pagina 13
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Pagina 19
... light the pinnacles of realized dreams , the golden domes of high possibilities , and the purpling hills of great delights , and then looks down upon the narrow , sinuous , long , and dusty path by which others have reached them , he is ...
... light the pinnacles of realized dreams , the golden domes of high possibilities , and the purpling hills of great delights , and then looks down upon the narrow , sinuous , long , and dusty path by which others have reached them , he is ...
Pagina 38
... 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 mid - day sun . SHAKSPERE , MILTON . [ T is entirely natural for people to form ...
... 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 mid - day sun . SHAKSPERE , MILTON . [ T is entirely natural for people to form ...
Pagina 71
... light , And calm thoughts , regular as infants ' breath ; And three firm friends , more sure than day and night— Himself , his maker , and the angel death ? COLERIDGE . YOUNG men , I hate cant , and I do not know exactly how to say what ...
... light , And calm thoughts , regular as infants ' breath ; And three firm friends , more sure than day and night— Himself , his maker , and the angel death ? COLERIDGE . YOUNG men , I hate cant , and I do not know exactly how to say what ...
Pagina 74
... light of Heaven is shut out ; and while you may be able to keep your ma chine right side up , it will only be by feeling your way along in a clumsy , comfortless kind of style , and with no certainty of ever arriving at the heavenly ...
... light of Heaven is shut out ; and while you may be able to keep your ma chine right side up , it will only be by feeling your way along in a clumsy , comfortless kind of style , and with no certainty of ever arriving at the heavenly ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 58 - Franklin ever originated the maxim, " six hours of sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool," he ought uniformly to have practised by the rule of the last number.
Pagina 176 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
Pagina 188 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Pagina 15 - Society demands that a young man shall be somebody, not only, but that he shall prove his right to the title ; and it has a right to demand this. Society will not take this matter upon trust — at least, not for a long time, for it has been cheated too frequently. Society is not- very particular what a man does, so that it prove him to be a man : then it will bow to him, and make room for him.
Pagina 38 - 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 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 85 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Pagina 69 - Her own speed may be retarded by this association, but the work she does for commerce is ten fold greater than that accomplished by the grand craft that shuns abrasion as misfortune, and seeks to secure nothing but individual dignity and fast time. It is through social contact and absolute social value alone that you can accomplish any great social good. It is through the invisible lines which you are able to attach to the minds with which you are brought into association alone that you can tow society,...
Pagina 62 - The primal duties shine aloft — like stars ; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, Are scattered at the feet of Man — like flowers.
Pagina 134 - No: gayer insects fluttering by !Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die, And lovelier things have mercy shown To every failing but their own, And every woe a tear can claim Except an erring sister's shame.