Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and MarriedScribner,Armstrong & Company, 1872 |
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Pagina vii
... necessary for decanting the experiences and the truths which my heart holds into the hearts I seek to fill . A pitcher may have an ear noticeable for length and breadth , and its contents may occupy an inferior level PREFACE . vii.
... necessary for decanting the experiences and the truths which my heart holds into the hearts I seek to fill . A pitcher may have an ear noticeable for length and breadth , and its contents may occupy an inferior level PREFACE . vii.
Pagina 18
... necessary assistance to one whom he knows to be sensitive and honorable . Any young man who will part with freedom and the self - respect that grows out of self - reliance and self - support , is unmanly , neither deserving of ...
... necessary assistance to one whom he knows to be sensitive and honorable . Any young man who will part with freedom and the self - respect that grows out of self - reliance and self - support , is unmanly , neither deserving of ...
Pagina 26
... necessary , or that it but I simply state a general fact . sorbed in family cares , or perhaps devotes from ten to twenty years to the bearing and rearing of children— the most dignified , delightful , and honorable office of her life ...
... necessary , or that it but I simply state a general fact . sorbed in family cares , or perhaps devotes from ten to twenty years to the bearing and rearing of children— the most dignified , delightful , and honorable office of her life ...
Pagina 32
... necessary to success , and particularly to an enjoyable success , as integrity , or industry , or any other indispensable thing . All machinery ruins itself by fric tion , without the presence of a lubricating fluid . Polite- ness , or ...
... necessary to success , and particularly to an enjoyable success , as integrity , or industry , or any other indispensable thing . All machinery ruins itself by fric tion , without the presence of a lubricating fluid . Polite- ness , or ...
Pagina 51
... necessary that you be learned blacksmiths or philosophical and diplo . matic printers , but it is necessary that you be a man before your calling , behind your calling , above your call- ing , outside of your calling , and inside of it ...
... necessary that you be learned blacksmiths or philosophical and diplo . matic printers , but it is necessary that you be a man before your calling , behind your calling , above your call- ing , outside of your calling , and inside of it ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
accomplishments acquisition asso Battle of Prague beautiful become believe blessings character charms companion cravat delight desire despise disgust dress duty elevation Elihu Burritt enjoy eyes fact fancy Fanny Kemble feel female society French language friends gathered Georgiana girl give grow hand happy healthful heart heaven HENRY WARD BEECHER honor human husband idea India ink influence JOHN LEDYARD kind labor letter live locomotive look man's manhood manly marriage married mean ment mind mother nature ness never obliged pair passion phatic pleasant pleasure politeness possess poverty religion remember rience ruminantia seek selfish social soul suppose sweet talk taste tell thing thought tion total depravity track true true woman uncertain path vulgar fractions wife wish wives womanhood women word worth young woman
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.