Life and its purposes, illustrated in the life of M. Lyon, and others1862 |
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7. oldal
... Happy the fatherless children who have such a praying mother ! Suffice it to say that the family continued upon the homestead , where Mary was privileged to climb the rocks and hills , and sport among the trees and wild- flowers . Her ...
... Happy the fatherless children who have such a praying mother ! Suffice it to say that the family continued upon the homestead , where Mary was privileged to climb the rocks and hills , and sport among the trees and wild- flowers . Her ...
12. oldal
... happy only when she is treated as a play- thing , or a doll . It is not strange that he should feel sadly disappointed , especially when he considers that the alliance is for life . Perhaps , in order to minister to his wife's pleasure ...
... happy only when she is treated as a play- thing , or a doll . It is not strange that he should feel sadly disappointed , especially when he considers that the alliance is for life . Perhaps , in order to minister to his wife's pleasure ...
17. oldal
... happy , as she blooms into womanhood . Does she answer , " Doing my duty ? " Nay . But you read in every lineament of her face , in her laughing eye and bounding heart , " Give me position ! Let wealth be mine , and let me be dandled in ...
... happy , as she blooms into womanhood . Does she answer , " Doing my duty ? " Nay . But you read in every lineament of her face , in her laughing eye and bounding heart , " Give me position ! Let wealth be mine , and let me be dandled in ...
22. oldal
... happy experience that no enjoyment can equal that which flows from the faithful discharge of duty . The last passage in her life is truly sublime . A fatal disease appeared in the Seminary , filling every heart with alarm . Miss Lyon ...
... happy experience that no enjoyment can equal that which flows from the faithful discharge of duty . The last passage in her life is truly sublime . A fatal disease appeared in the Seminary , filling every heart with alarm . Miss Lyon ...
38. oldal
... happy homes , because so few wives and mothers have been trained for the important places they fill . " Home is man's ark , when trouble springs , When gathering clouds menace his morrow ; And woman's love , the bird that brings His ...
... happy homes , because so few wives and mothers have been trained for the important places they fill . " Home is man's ark , when trouble springs , When gathering clouds menace his morrow ; And woman's love , the bird that brings His ...
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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.