The Higher Education of WomenA. Strahan, 1866 - 191 páginas |
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... true and humble wife , At all times to your will conformable ; Ever in fear to kindle your dislike , Yea , subject to your countenance ; glad or sorry , As I saw it incline . When was the hour I ever contradicted your desire , Or made ...
... true and humble wife , At all times to your will conformable ; Ever in fear to kindle your dislike , Yea , subject to your countenance ; glad or sorry , As I saw it incline . When was the hour I ever contradicted your desire , Or made ...
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... true . Women are not stronger - minded than men , and a commonplace young woman can no more work steadily without motive or discipline than a commonplace young man . It has been remarked that the active , voluntary part of man is very ...
... true . Women are not stronger - minded than men , and a commonplace young woman can no more work steadily without motive or discipline than a commonplace young man . It has been remarked that the active , voluntary part of man is very ...
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... true this is , the friends and coun- sellors of girls could abundantly testify . There is no point on which schoolmistresses are more unanimous and more emphatic than on the difficulty of knowing what to do with girls after leaving ...
... true this is , the friends and coun- sellors of girls could abundantly testify . There is no point on which schoolmistresses are more unanimous and more emphatic than on the difficulty of knowing what to do with girls after leaving ...
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... true happiness is to be found in work - that there can be no lei- sure without toil - that people who do nothing are unfruitful fig - trees which cumber the ground . And in this atmo- sphere the modern girl lives and breathes . She is ...
... true happiness is to be found in work - that there can be no lei- sure without toil - that people who do nothing are unfruitful fig - trees which cumber the ground . And in this atmo- sphere the modern girl lives and breathes . She is ...
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... itself somewhere , is surely a cause for thankful rejoicing . It is an unfortu- nate misunderstanding of the true state of the case that makes parents sigh over what might well be their happiness and pride one THINGS AS THEY ARE . 59.
... itself somewhere , is surely a cause for thankful rejoicing . It is an unfortu- nate misunderstanding of the true state of the case that makes parents sigh over what might well be their happiness and pride one THINGS AS THEY ARE . 59.
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Página 9 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 23 - Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.
Página 167 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Página 21 - WE receive this child into the congregation of Christ's flock, * and do sign him with the sign of the cross, in token that hereafter he shall not be ashamed to confess the faith of Christ crucified, and manfully to fight under his banner, against sin, the world, and the Devil, and to continue Christ's faithful soldier and servant unto his life's end.
Página 31 - Madonna-wise on either side her head, Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity, Were fixed shadows of thy fixed mood, Revered Isabel, the crown and head, The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.
Página 21 - Baptism doth represent unto us our profession; which is, to follow the example of our Saviour Christ, and to be made like unto him; that, as he died, and rose again for us, so should we, who are baptized, die from sin, and rise again unto righteousness; continually mortifying all our evil and corrupt affections, and daily proceeding in all virtue and godliness of living.
Página 142 - When Jane was young, I used to teach her some Latin with her brothers, and that has been, I think, of real use to her, and she feels it now in reading and translating German, of which she does a great deal. But there is nothing for girls like the Degree Examination, which concentrates one's reading so beautifully...
Página 48 - We could not do every day out of our own heads all we have to do. We should accomplish nothing, for all our energies would be frittered away in minor attempts at petty improvement.
Página 9 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Página 36 - Are they to be regarded, and to regard themselves, primarily as children of God, members of Christ, and heirs of the kingdom of heaven...