Letters to a Young Lady on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects: Calculated to Improve the Heart, to Form the Manners and Enlighten the Understanding ...W. E. Norman, 1811 - 239 sider |
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... woman . - Such a friendship is the richest cordial of life . Either of the sexes with- out it , are never what they should be . Like the best figures , mutilated , they appear to disadvantage . Unnat- ural expedients may be tried to ...
... woman . - Such a friendship is the richest cordial of life . Either of the sexes with- out it , are never what they should be . Like the best figures , mutilated , they appear to disadvantage . Unnat- ural expedients may be tried to ...
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... woman seems , more peculiarly , to need its enlivening . supports , whilst her frame must be confessed to be ad mirably calculated for the exercise of all the tender and devout affections . The timidity , arising from the natural ...
... woman seems , more peculiarly , to need its enlivening . supports , whilst her frame must be confessed to be ad mirably calculated for the exercise of all the tender and devout affections . The timidity , arising from the natural ...
Side 8
... woman's happiness - it may be to a person of great ambition , who has neither leisure nor inclination for soft domestic scenes - it may be to a fashionable Insipid , who , for the sake of flirting with some elegant LETTERS TO A YOUNG LADY .
... woman's happiness - it may be to a person of great ambition , who has neither leisure nor inclination for soft domestic scenes - it may be to a fashionable Insipid , who , for the sake of flirting with some elegant LETTERS TO A YOUNG LADY .
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... woman is at heart a rake . " This sentence is severe , and not to be admitted without restrictions . Pope was a rancor ous satirist of women . Whatever be his merit in the world of letters , they , at least , owe no extraordinary ...
... woman is at heart a rake . " This sentence is severe , and not to be admitted without restrictions . Pope was a rancor ous satirist of women . Whatever be his merit in the world of letters , they , at least , owe no extraordinary ...
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... woman is a monster . The peace , happiness and honor of our sex , are so very much in the power of yours after marriage , that the most abandoned libertine shudders at the thought of an union with a woman , who has not piety and virtue ...
... woman is a monster . The peace , happiness and honor of our sex , are so very much in the power of yours after marriage , that the most abandoned libertine shudders at the thought of an union with a woman , who has not piety and virtue ...
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Side 78 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Side 104 - We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but, above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.
Side 14 - She wrought and temper'd with a purer flame. To these the Sire Omnipotent unfolds The world's harmonious volume, there to read The transcript of Himself. On every part They trace the bright impressions of his hand: In earth or air, the meadow's purple stores, The moon's mild radiance, or the virgin's form Blooming with rosy smiles, they see portray'd That uncreated beauty, which delights The Mind Supreme. They also feel her charms, Enamour'd; they partake the eternal joy.
Side 28 - Direct, control, suggest this day All I design, or do, or say, That all my powers, with all their might, In Thy sole glory may unite ! Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Side 221 - ... eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man to conceive, the things which God has prepared for them that love him; — nor yet, I may add, the wrath which he has prepared for those who do not love him.
Side 197 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Side 43 - How can ye believe, which receive honor one of another, and seek not the honor that cometh from God only?
Side 216 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Side 143 - Good. Beneath her clear discerning Eye The visionary Shadows fly Of Folly's painted Show. She sees thro' ev'ry fair Disguise, That all, but VIRTUE'S solid Joys, Is Vanity and Woe.
Side 143 - And strew'd with flowers the thorny ways of truth ? O loss beyond repair ! O wretched father! left alone, To weep their dire misfortune, and thy own ! How shall thy weaken'd mind, oppress'd with woe, And drooping o'er thy Lucy's grave, Perform the duties that you doubly owe ! Now she, alas ! is gone, From folly and from vice their helpless age to save...