The Poor Girl and True Woman: Or, Elements of Woman's Success Drawn from the Life of Mary Lyon and OthersGould and Lincoln, 1859 - 353 oldal |
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... habits , are well and accurately related , and with a skill scarcely inferior to Miss Edgeworth's . - Huntington's Monthly Religious Magazine . We hardly think a better series of books for children were ever written . - Youth's ...
... habits , are well and accurately related , and with a skill scarcely inferior to Miss Edgeworth's . - Huntington's Monthly Religious Magazine . We hardly think a better series of books for children were ever written . - Youth's ...
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... DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO GIRLS -REPRESENTATIVES OF TWO CLASSES -HABIT OF WASTING - REMARK OF SUPERINTENDENT OF BONNET MANUFACTORY — SECRET OF MANY MEN'S POVERTY -SAVING TO HOARD , AN EVIL - MRS PRIOR MISS XIV CONTENTS .
... DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO GIRLS -REPRESENTATIVES OF TWO CLASSES -HABIT OF WASTING - REMARK OF SUPERINTENDENT OF BONNET MANUFACTORY — SECRET OF MANY MEN'S POVERTY -SAVING TO HOARD , AN EVIL - MRS PRIOR MISS XIV CONTENTS .
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... habits . Yes , sir , humanly speaking , I owe to her all I am , or that I hope to be , in time and eternity . She is a praying wo- man , a member of a Christian church . Some time ago , I resolved , by the help of God , never to per ...
... habits . Yes , sir , humanly speaking , I owe to her all I am , or that I hope to be , in time and eternity . She is a praying wo- man , a member of a Christian church . Some time ago , I resolved , by the help of God , never to per ...
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... habit of underscoring words that she did not certainly know how to spell , that , in case her spelling was wrong , it might ap- pear to the reader as a jest . Such young women are really to be pitied . It is not strange that their minds ...
... habit of underscoring words that she did not certainly know how to spell , that , in case her spelling was wrong , it might ap- pear to the reader as a jest . Such young women are really to be pitied . It is not strange that their minds ...
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... habit of think ing , but they corrupt the soul , give false views of life , and unfit the reader for serious duties . This is the testimony of thousands who have made the dangerous experiment . " Novel reading has been my ruin ...
... habit of think ing , but they corrupt the soul , give false views of life , and unfit the reader for serious duties . This is the testimony of thousands who have made the dangerous experiment . " Novel reading has been my ruin ...
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The Poor Girl and True Woman, Or, Elements of Woman's Success, Drawn from ... William Makepeace Thayer Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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119. oldal - The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.
195. oldal - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
255. oldal - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
196. oldal - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
195. oldal - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; And in her tongue is the law of kindness.
255. oldal - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
60. oldal - ... 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 sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
176. oldal - But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That, so bedecked, ornate, and gay, Comes this way, sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for the isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails filled, and streamers waving...
170. oldal - Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, * Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
52. oldal - She became prudent from affection; and though of the most generous nature, she was taught economy and frugality by her love for me. During the most critical period of my life, she preserved order in my affairs, from the care of which she relieved me. She gently reclaimed me from dissipation; she propped my weak and irresolute nature; she urged my indolence to all the exertions that have been useful or creditable to me; and she was perpetually at hand to admonish my heedlessness and improvidence....