Life and its purposes, illustrated in the life of M. Lyon, and others1862 |
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44. oldal
... excellence and distinction . There is scarcely an exception , while the opposite is equally true . Unfaithful children make unprincipled men and women . Their early disobedience is a sure forerunner of their after immorality and shame ...
... excellence and distinction . There is scarcely an exception , while the opposite is equally true . Unfaithful children make unprincipled men and women . Their early disobedience is a sure forerunner of their after immorality and shame ...
45. oldal
... excellence and triumph . Roman history tells us of an illustrious woman who was condemned to be strangled . She was a lady of beauty and refinement , and the jailor was so much impressed by her accomplishments that he could not endure ...
... excellence and triumph . Roman history tells us of an illustrious woman who was condemned to be strangled . She was a lady of beauty and refinement , and the jailor was so much impressed by her accomplishments that he could not endure ...
46. oldal
... lead her father forth to liberty and his home . All such examples have always been regarded as in- dicative of a certain general excellence of character , so that the actors have been thought to promise a degree WIR WOL - NHGOL .
... lead her father forth to liberty and his home . All such examples have always been regarded as in- dicative of a certain general excellence of character , so that the actors have been thought to promise a degree WIR WOL - NHGOL .
47. oldal
... excellence of heart , and strength of mind , that promise well for the future . That one act will cause many to anticipate that she will become her mother's equal . Nor can it be said that rank contributes anything to the value of ...
... excellence of heart , and strength of mind , that promise well for the future . That one act will cause many to anticipate that she will become her mother's equal . Nor can it be said that rank contributes anything to the value of ...
54. oldal
... excellence of female character , which promises a useful and charming womanhood . We can say , with Alcott and Irving , that certain virtuous and noble men were trained up in the company of model sisters ; and we can also say , with ...
... excellence of female character , which promises a useful and charming womanhood . We can say , with Alcott and Irving , that certain virtuous and noble men were trained up in the company of model sisters ; and we can also say , with ...
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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.