Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 páginas |
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... strength with Asiatic science , art , and civilization as it was when an overgrown population and a corrupt religion set bounds to all improvement . What an encounter is that , when the English man - of - war points its thunders against ...
... strength with Asiatic science , art , and civilization as it was when an overgrown population and a corrupt religion set bounds to all improvement . What an encounter is that , when the English man - of - war points its thunders against ...
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... Strength and courage are therefore indispensable requisites in the other sex . She is in a measure dependent . She asks for wisdom , constancy , firmness , perse- verance , and she is willing to repay it all by the surrender of the full ...
... Strength and courage are therefore indispensable requisites in the other sex . She is in a measure dependent . She asks for wisdom , constancy , firmness , perse- verance , and she is willing to repay it all by the surrender of the full ...
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... strength but by tenderness , not by bold- ness but by reserve . These instincts are the unerring guide of what both man and woman ought to be . In each others ' hearts therefore are inscribed , as in a tablet , the laws which should ...
... strength but by tenderness , not by bold- ness but by reserve . These instincts are the unerring guide of what both man and woman ought to be . In each others ' hearts therefore are inscribed , as in a tablet , the laws which should ...
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... strength to help forward the more difficult labors in which man engages ? Search the recesses of her consciousness , and you would find the ever present idea , that she was made to be the helpmate , the delight , and the com- forter of ...
... strength to help forward the more difficult labors in which man engages ? Search the recesses of her consciousness , and you would find the ever present idea , that she was made to be the helpmate , the delight , and the com- forter of ...
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... strength , the re- sources , the courage of a man , and be able to buffet his way through this rude world . But the daughter , how little control is she to have over her destiny ! How entirely is her happi- ness 56 SPHERE AND DUTIES OF ...
... strength , the re- sources , the courage of a man , and be able to buffet his way through this rude world . But the daughter , how little control is she to have over her destiny ! How entirely is her happi- ness 56 SPHERE AND DUTIES OF ...
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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.