Coelebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and MoralsThomas & William Bradford, 1810 |
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Página 15
... creature is a fallen creature . Yet let not your standard be low . If it be absurd to expect perfection , it is not un- reasonable to expect consistency . Do not suffer yourself to be caught by a shining quality , till you know it is ...
... creature is a fallen creature . Yet let not your standard be low . If it be absurd to expect perfection , it is not un- reasonable to expect consistency . Do not suffer yourself to be caught by a shining quality , till you know it is ...
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... pretty barbarians , necessarily caused a total interruption of conver . sation . The sprightly creatures ran round the table to choose where they would sit . At length this great difficulty of courts and cabinets , the choice CŒLEBS . 29.
... pretty barbarians , necessarily caused a total interruption of conver . sation . The sprightly creatures ran round the table to choose where they would sit . At length this great difficulty of courts and cabinets , the choice CŒLEBS . 29.
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... creature making roses and hyacinths ! her delicate hands and fair com- plexion must be amazingly set off by the contrast of the bright flowers . If it were a coarse looking girl spinning hemp , to be sure one should pity her , but it ...
... creature making roses and hyacinths ! her delicate hands and fair com- plexion must be amazingly set off by the contrast of the bright flowers . If it were a coarse looking girl spinning hemp , to be sure one should pity her , but it ...
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... creature , " said Sir John , in an ac- cent of compassion , as she went out , for nobler purposes . How grievously does she fall short of the high expectations her early youth had raised ! O ! what a sad return does she make to ...
... creature , " said Sir John , in an ac- cent of compassion , as she went out , for nobler purposes . How grievously does she fall short of the high expectations her early youth had raised ! O ! what a sad return does she make to ...
Página 88
... creature , ” continued she , " you must not only let me have these , but you must make me twelve dozen more flowers as fast as possible , and be sure let me have a great many sprigs of jessamine and myr . tle . " Then snatching up a ...
... creature , ” continued she , " you must not only let me have these , but you must make me twelve dozen more flowers as fast as possible , and be sure let me have a great many sprigs of jessamine and myr . tle . " Then snatching up a ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance admiration affection afraid allow amusement Aston Hall attention Barlow beauty Bible Carlton censure CHAP character charity cheerful Christian Comfit conversation creature curricle daughters dear delight dinner divine divine grace doctrines duty elegant endeavour eternal evil excellent eyes father faults favour fear feel Flam fondness girl give grace Grove habits hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope human indulgence kind labour Lady Aston Lady Belfield learning less ligion live look Lucilla marriage ment mind Miss Sparkes Miss Stanley moral mother nature neral ness never nosegay object observed opinion passion persons Phoebe piety pious pleasure poet poor principle profession racter Ranby rapture religion religious replied Sappho scripture seemed sense smiling soon speak spirit sure talents taste temper thing thought timate tion trust truth tural Tyrrel vanity virtue whole wife wish woman young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 100 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Página 9 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Página 12 - Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high...
Página 55 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Página 146 - BLESSED is he that considereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.
Página 106 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him...
Página 15 - I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character ; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.
Página 131 - I knew them both ; and to know was to revere them. In them let our young ladies contemplate profound and various learning, chastened by true Christian humility. In them let them venerate acquirements which would have been distinguished in a university, meekly softened and beautifully shaded by the gentle exertion of every domestic virtue, the unaffected exercise of every feminine employment.
Página 177 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Página 54 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness earth and heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime...