Coelebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and MoralsThomas & William Bradford, 1810 |
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... heart more exquisitely pure than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother , who fostered his infancy with fondness , watched over his childhood with anxiety , and his youth with an interest compounded of all that is tender ...
... heart more exquisitely pure than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother , who fostered his infancy with fondness , watched over his childhood with anxiety , and his youth with an interest compounded of all that is tender ...
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... heart went along with every word he read ; and as to his family , he thought it much more beneficial for them to join in an excellent composition of a judicious divine , than to attend to any such crude rhapsody as he should be able to ...
... heart went along with every word he read ; and as to his family , he thought it much more beneficial for them to join in an excellent composition of a judicious divine , than to attend to any such crude rhapsody as he should be able to ...
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... heart re- quires as much watching in the more advanced as in the earliest stages of his religious course . is cheerful in a well - grounded hope , and looks not for extacies , till that hope be swallowed up in fru- ition . Thankful if ...
... heart re- quires as much watching in the more advanced as in the earliest stages of his religious course . is cheerful in a well - grounded hope , and looks not for extacies , till that hope be swallowed up in fru- ition . Thankful if ...
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... heart . " Sir John , rather gravely , said , " It is with reluctance that I ever say any thing to the prejudice of any body that I receive in my house ; but as the son of my valued friend , I think it fair to tell you that this vigilant ...
... heart . " Sir John , rather gravely , said , " It is with reluctance that I ever say any thing to the prejudice of any body that I receive in my house ; but as the son of my valued friend , I think it fair to tell you that this vigilant ...
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... heart of adamant should hold out against all these perilous assaults , its vulnerability was tried in other quarters . The Titian would naturally lead to Lavinia's drawings . A beautiful sketch of the lakes would be produced , with a ...
... heart of adamant should hold out against all these perilous assaults , its vulnerability was tried in other quarters . The Titian would naturally lead to Lavinia's drawings . A beautiful sketch of the lakes would be produced , with 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...