Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 páginas |
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... condition to take much interest in any thing else . So much is it so , that no sooner does a man of genius appear among us , than he is bought up and set to work in the drudgery of politics or com- merce , or poverty drives him to waste ...
... condition to take much interest in any thing else . So much is it so , that no sooner does a man of genius appear among us , than he is bought up and set to work in the drudgery of politics or com- merce , or poverty drives him to waste ...
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... condition of the world has totally changed since his day . Since his times we have had the additional experience of many ages . All that he could possibly know of that science must have been derived from the few small states of Greece ...
... condition of the world has totally changed since his day . Since his times we have had the additional experience of many ages . All that he could possibly know of that science must have been derived from the few small states of Greece ...
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... condition and law of his intercourse with them then , is the law of gentleness and self - restraint . This moral influence extends not only to manners , but to sentiments . The boy , by associating exclusively with his own sex , becomes ...
... condition and law of his intercourse with them then , is the law of gentleness and self - restraint . This moral influence extends not only to manners , but to sentiments . The boy , by associating exclusively with his own sex , becomes ...
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... wisdom , and courage , and strength , and hope , and endurance . A bad one is con- fusion , weakness , discomfiture , despair . No condition is hopeless when the wife possesses firmness , decision SPHERE AND DUTIES OF WOMAN . 69.
... wisdom , and courage , and strength , and hope , and endurance . A bad one is con- fusion , weakness , discomfiture , despair . No condition is hopeless when the wife possesses firmness , decision SPHERE AND DUTIES OF WOMAN . 69.
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And Other Subjects George Washington Burnap. condition is hopeless when the wife possesses firmness , decision , energy , economy . There is no outward prosperity which can coun- teract indolence , folly , and extravagance at home . No ...
And Other Subjects George Washington Burnap. condition is hopeless when the wife possesses firmness , decision , energy , economy . There is no outward prosperity which can coun- teract indolence , folly , and extravagance at home . No ...
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Página 197 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Página 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 181 - And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail...
Página 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 46 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 183 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Página 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Página 184 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 27 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.