Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 páginas |
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... labor has any tendency to degrade or enfeeble the mind , to debase or chill the heart . There are some topics which I was obliged altogether to omit , the physical education of woman , and her political rights . The first of these may ...
... labor has any tendency to degrade or enfeeble the mind , to debase or chill the heart . There are some topics which I was obliged altogether to omit , the physical education of woman , and her political rights . The first of these may ...
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... labor- ed for what we now enjoy . Existence now in any civilized portion of the globe is worth far more than it ever was before . That naked animal , who once roamed the woods in utter destitution , is now born to a happier and more ...
... labor- ed for what we now enjoy . Existence now in any civilized portion of the globe is worth far more than it ever was before . That naked animal , who once roamed the woods in utter destitution , is now born to a happier and more ...
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... labor . It is much more easy to receive knowledge through the ear than through the eye . It is much more easy for many to listen while one discourses than for each to read the same amount for himself . It is certainly less labor for one ...
... labor . It is much more easy to receive knowledge through the ear than through the eye . It is much more easy for many to listen while one discourses than for each to read the same amount for himself . It is certainly less labor for one ...
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... labor and care is or- dained for them both . The share of each is plainly pointed out in their respective consti- tutions . To the more robust constitution of man are appointed the labors and dangers of the chase 48 SPHERE AND DUTIES OF ...
... labor and care is or- dained for them both . The share of each is plainly pointed out in their respective consti- tutions . To the more robust constitution of man are appointed the labors and dangers of the chase 48 SPHERE AND DUTIES OF ...
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... labor once done by female hands , but now performed by machinery in this country , is perhaps as great in amount as could be done by all the females in it . The result is , that while in Spain , and France , and Italy , and sometimes in ...
... labor once done by female hands , but now performed by machinery in this country , is perhaps as great in amount as could be done by all the females in it . The result is , that while in Spain , and France , and Italy , and sometimes in ...
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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.