Letters to Young LadiesHarper, 1838 - 259 páginas |
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... ACCOMPLISHMENTS , . 105 LETTER VIII . SISTERLY VIRTUES , 120 BOOKS , FRIENDSHIP ,. • CHEERFULNESS , LETTER IX . • 133 LETTER X. 152 LETTER XI . 165 LETTER XII . CONVERSATION , · LETTER XIII . BENEVOLENCE , • · 173 • 189 LETTER XIV ...
... ACCOMPLISHMENTS , . 105 LETTER VIII . SISTERLY VIRTUES , 120 BOOKS , FRIENDSHIP ,. • CHEERFULNESS , LETTER IX . • 133 LETTER X. 152 LETTER XI . 165 LETTER XII . CONVERSATION , · LETTER XIII . BENEVOLENCE , • · 173 • 189 LETTER XIV ...
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... accomplishments as your station may require , the whole field of physical , mental and moral culture , which opens before her who is de- termined that her husbandry shall not be faithless , nor her harvest light , is too wide and ...
... accomplishments as your station may require , the whole field of physical , mental and moral culture , which opens before her who is de- termined that her husbandry shall not be faithless , nor her harvest light , is too wide and ...
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... accomplishments are adapted to the season of youth , and with it pass away . These possess a fugitive value , when compared with the whole extent of life . They are like the tint upon the blossom , which fades that the fruit may ripen ...
... accomplishments are adapted to the season of youth , and with it pass away . These possess a fugitive value , when compared with the whole extent of life . They are like the tint upon the blossom , which fades that the fruit may ripen ...
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... accomplishments , its necessary depart- ments are not beneath the notice of the most re- fined young lady . To keep her own wardrobe perfectly in order , to pay just regard to economy , and to add to the comfort of the poor , it will be ...
... accomplishments , its necessary depart- ments are not beneath the notice of the most re- fined young lady . To keep her own wardrobe perfectly in order , to pay just regard to economy , and to add to the comfort of the poor , it will be ...
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... accomplishment . A well - regulated mind can find time to attend to all . When a girl is nine or ten years old , she should be accustomed to take some regular share in house- hold duties , and to feel responsible for the manner in which ...
... accomplishment . A well - regulated mind can find time to attend to all . When a girl is nine or ten years old , she should be accustomed to take some regular share in house- hold duties , and to feel responsible for the manner in which ...
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accomplishments affections amid attainment beauty benevolence blessed Boccacio brothers character charity Charles Anthon Charles Joseph Latrobe Charles Webb cheerfulness classick comfort conversation Cotton Mather danger daughters dear young friends delight desirable dignity domestick dress duties elegant Elizabeth Carter Engravings Epictetus Eternity evil excellent exercise fashion feel female education friendship gather give grace gratitude Greece habit happiness hath heart heaven History honour household important improvement industry influence instruction intel intellectual intercourse knowledge labour learned Lord Bacon Madam de Genlis memory ment mind mother musick nature ness never perseverance Petrarch piety pleasure Plutarch poor Portrait possess principle privilege pursuits render sacred says season sometimes soul sphere spirit sweet tain talents taste teach teachers things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion trifles vanity virtue vols wisdom woman young lady youth
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Página 204 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Página 186 - When we see a fellow loud and talkative, full of insipid life and laughter, we may venture to pronounce him a female favourite.
Página 204 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the...
Página 78 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Página 39 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Página 201 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Página 205 - Few men ever carried out so fully the injunction, not to let the left hand know what the right hand did, in the quiet and steady outflow of good will and good works, as Mr.
Página 207 - For the poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good; but me ye have not always.