Life and its purposes, illustrated in the life of M. Lyon, and others1862 |
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10. oldal
... accomplish our purpose more successfully . Girls , no less than boys , need to know how they can make the most of life . It will aid them , to learn how others have lived and laboured . The strong points of female charaeter will thus be ...
... accomplish our purpose more successfully . Girls , no less than boys , need to know how they can make the most of life . It will aid them , to learn how others have lived and laboured . The strong points of female charaeter will thus be ...
11. oldal
... accomplish . The older she grew , the more her soul was absorbed in her purpose . And , finally , she seemed to desire life only to render herself useful by teaching the young . Contrast this feature of Mary Lyon's character with that ...
... accomplish . The older she grew , the more her soul was absorbed in her purpose . And , finally , she seemed to desire life only to render herself useful by teaching the young . Contrast this feature of Mary Lyon's character with that ...
23. oldal
... accomplish noble things . It is certain that the convic- tion of incompetency , in this regard , must disqualify a young woman for effective labour . Let us , then , see what the influence of woman is in this world of ours . Adolph ...
... accomplish noble things . It is certain that the convic- tion of incompetency , in this regard , must disqualify a young woman for effective labour . Let us , then , see what the influence of woman is in this world of ours . Adolph ...
26. oldal
... accomplished by her sex can lead her to this conclusion . Some writer has said that " there is no country on earth , except France , which woman has not governed . " Does the reader say , " She has not governed America ? " She has ...
... accomplished by her sex can lead her to this conclusion . Some writer has said that " there is no country on earth , except France , which woman has not governed . " Does the reader say , " She has not governed America ? " She has ...
30. oldal
... accomplished more for his race than she ? Does not her influence , though a woman , compare favourably with that of the ablest men , who have swayed senates , or sat on thrones of power ? She reminds us of Hannah More , who at one time ...
... accomplished more for his race than she ? Does not her influence , though a woman , compare favourably with that of the ablest men , who have swayed senates , or sat on thrones of power ? She reminds us of Hannah More , who at one time ...
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101. oldal - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
46. oldal - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting ; in like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness,) with good works.
101. oldal - There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
16. 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.
100. oldal - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
84. oldal - A native grace Sat fair-proportioned on her polished limbs, Veiled in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most ; Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse amid the close-embowering woods.
9. 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....
16. oldal - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
54. oldal - TO THE MEMORY OF HELEN WALKER, WHO DIED IN THE YEAR OF GOD 1791. THIS HUMBLE INDIVIDUAL PRACTISED IN REAL LIFE THE VIRTUES WITH WHICH FICTION HAS INVESTED THE IMAGINARY CHARACTER OF JEANIE DEANS...
3. oldal - Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laughed, and danced, and talked, and sung : And, proud of health, of freedom vain, Dreamed not of sorrow, care, or pain ; Concluding, in those hours of glee, That all the world was made for me. But when the hour of trial came, When sickness shook this trembling frame, When folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more, It then occurred, how sad 'twould be Were this world only made for me.