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 ...William Fessenden, 1811 - 318 sider |
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... woman , such a friendship is the richest cordial of life . Either of the sexes without it , are never what they ... women , do not know the value of the treasure they despise . They have not sufficient taste to relish their excellen ...
... woman , such a friendship is the richest cordial of life . Either of the sexes without it , are never what they ... women , do not know the value of the treasure they despise . They have not sufficient taste to relish their excellen ...
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... women is unfortunately di rected rather to such accomplishments , as will ena- ble them to make a noise and sparkle ... woman seems , more peculiarly , to need its enlivening supports , whilst her frame must be confessed to be admirably ...
... women is unfortunately di rected rather to such accomplishments , as will ena- ble them to make a noise and sparkle ... woman seems , more peculiarly , to need its enlivening supports , whilst her frame must be confessed to be admirably ...
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... 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 fair , and giving ...
... 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 fair , and giving ...
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... women . Whatever be his merit in the world of letters , they , at least , owe no extraordinary gratitude to his memory or ta- lents . Tread lightly upon the ashes of the dead , is a maxim I revere . " I would otherwise retaliate his ...
... women . Whatever be his merit in the world of letters , they , at least , owe no extraordinary gratitude to his memory or ta- lents . Tread lightly upon the ashes of the dead , is a maxim I revere . " I would otherwise retaliate his ...
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... woman is a nonster . The peace , happiness and honour of our sex are so very much in the power of your after marriage , that the most abandoned libertine shudders at the thought of a union with a womar : who has not piety and virtue ...
... woman is a nonster . The peace , happiness and honour of our sex are so very much in the power of your after marriage , that the most abandoned libertine shudders at the thought of a union with a womar : who has not piety and virtue ...
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Side 284 - WHEN all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost In wonder, love, and praise...
Side 98 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Side 24 - My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire : that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments.
Side 290 - ... 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 14 - But if God doth so clothe the grass in the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more shall he clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Side 184 - O shades of Hagley, where is now your boast ? Your bright inhabitant is lost, You she preferr'd to all the gay resorts Where female vanity might wish to shine, The pomp of cities, and the pride of courts.
Side 133 - 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 13 - The impassion'd soul? and whence the robes of light Which thus invest her with more lovely pomp Than Fancy can describe? Whence but from Thee, O source divine of ever-flowing love! And Thy unmeasured goodness?
Side 156 - Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Side 184 - And banish'd every passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love.