The Wives of England: Their Relative Duties, Domestic Influence, & Social ObligationsFisher, son, & Company, 1843 - 370 páginas |
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Página 74 - You are my true and honorable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Página 33 - WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die,* Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh...
Página 22 - One important truth sufficiently impressed upon your mind will materially assist in this desirable consummation — it is the superiority of your husband simply as a man. It is quite possible you may have more talent, with higher attainments, and you may also have been generally more admired; but this has nothing whatever to do with your position as a woman, which is, and must be, inferior to his as a man.
Página 54 - ... for the maintenance of a house without either wife or child. As it is the natural characteristic of woman's love in its most refined, as well as its most practical development, to be perpetually doing something for the good or the happiness of the object of her affection, it is but reasonable that man's personal comfort should be studiously attended...
Página 61 - It is the privilege of a married woman to be able to show by the most delicate attentions how much she feels her husband's superiority to herself — not by mere personal services . . . but by a respectful deference to his opinion, and a willingly imposed silence when he speaks.
Página 61 - At home it is but fitting that the master of the house should be considered as entitled to the choice of every personal indulgence, unless indisposition or suffering on the part of the wife render such indulgences more properly her due ; but even then they ought to be received as a favor, rather than claimed as a right Women, in the present day, and in houses furnished as English homes generally are, may enjoy so many advantages in the way of pampering the body, from which men, and especially those...
Página 27 - Britain, the morning of which would smile upon the making of'a law for allowing no woman to marry until she had become an economist, thoroughly acquainted with the necessary expenses of a respect-able mode of living, and able to calculate the requisites of comfort in connection with all the probable con-tingencies of actual life!
Página 51 - We long, and not in vain — for presently the descent takes place ; but is effected by the writer with such admirable gravity of countenance, that the gravity of the reader becomes impossible. Thus we are told that, ' in the character of a noble, enlightened, and truly good man, there is a power and a sublimity so nearly approaching what we believe to be the nature and capacity of angels, that as no feeling can exceed, so no language can describe,
Página 67 - ... nothing can be more injudicious, or more fatal to her happiness, than an exhibition even of the least disposition to presume upon such gifts. Let her husband be once subjected to a feeling of jealousy of her importance, which without the• strictest watchfulness. will be liable to arise, and her peace of mind and her free agency are alike destroyed. for the remainder of her life...
Página 62 - As a rational, accountable, and immortal being, he consequently needs a companion who will be supremely solicitous for the advancement of his intellectual, moral, and spiritual nature; a companion who will raise the tone of his mind from the low anxieties, and vulgar cares which necessarily occupy so large a portion of his existence, and lead his thoughts to expatiate or repose on those subjects which convey a feeling of identity with a higher state of existence beyond this present life.