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... perhaps , plead the cause of my sex more effectually , than by explaining the influence of early education ; and thus rendering it evident to every unprejudiced mind , that if women were so educated as to qualify them for the proper ...
... perhaps , plead the cause of my sex more effectually , than by explaining the influence of early education ; and thus rendering it evident to every unprejudiced mind , that if women were so educated as to qualify them for the proper ...
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... perhaps , on that account deserve a preference to another term , could such be found , of equal import . The laws of association have been made use of by some writers to explain all the phenomena of the human mind ; they have been made ...
... perhaps , on that account deserve a preference to another term , could such be found , of equal import . The laws of association have been made use of by some writers to explain all the phenomena of the human mind ; they have been made ...
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... perhaps with some eclat . But if minds that have been embued with no solid principles of virtue should become the prey of vice , let us not be as- tonished . Let us not express the feelings of re- gret and disappointment at a ...
... perhaps with some eclat . But if minds that have been embued with no solid principles of virtue should become the prey of vice , let us not be as- tonished . Let us not express the feelings of re- gret and disappointment at a ...
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... perhaps , can call many a weary hour to witness what pains we took to lecture them to virtue - yet we must confess , the early associa- tions that gave an exclusive preference for whatever was genteel , to have been the operating ...
... perhaps , can call many a weary hour to witness what pains we took to lecture them to virtue - yet we must confess , the early associa- tions that gave an exclusive preference for whatever was genteel , to have been the operating ...
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... perhaps , an error little less fatal in its consequences , to direct the at- tention solely to the cultivation of the understand- ing , while we neglect the heart . Whoever consid- ers the operation of the passions , and the influence ...
... perhaps , an error little less fatal in its consequences , to direct the at- tention solely to the cultivation of the understand- ing , while we neglect the heart . Whoever consid- ers the operation of the passions , and the influence ...
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Página 127 - For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Página 170 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 237 - To a woman, whether civilized or savage, I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Página 237 - I have observed among all nations, that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to perform a hospitable or generous action; not haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society...
Página 237 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarsest morsel, with a double relish.
Página 27 - ... following : First, to cultivate all the various principles of our nature, both speculative and active, in such a manner as to bring them to the greatest perfection of which they are susceptible ; and, secondly, by watching over the impressions and associations which the mind receives in early life, to secure it against the influence of prevailing errors, and, as far as possible, to engage its prepossessions on the side of truth.
Página 234 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Página 68 - Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God ; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone ; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord : in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
Página 191 - But's happier than me : For I have known The luscious sweets of plenty; every night Have slept with soft content about my head, And never wak'd but to a joyful morning ; Yet now must fall like a full ear of corn, Whose blossom 'scap'd, yet's wither'd in the ripening.
Página 189 - But the subjects of the Byzantine empire, who assume and dishonour the names both of Greeks and Romans, present a dead uniformity of abject vices, which are neither softened by the weakness of humanity nor animated by the vigour of memorable crimes. The...