Letters to Young LadiesHarper, 1838 - 259 páginas |
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... respecting the appropriation of hours to employments . Use discretion and kindness in not interfering with the convenience of those around , and then evince decision in not yielding to slight obstacles . When your system is once ...
... respecting the appropriation of hours to employments . Use discretion and kindness in not interfering with the convenience of those around , and then evince decision in not yielding to slight obstacles . When your system is once ...
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... present age has been pronounced deficient . I mean , respect to the aged . To " honour the hoary head , and rise up before the face of the old man , " 1S a command of Jehovah . Those who have borne VALUE OF TIME . 23.
... present age has been pronounced deficient . I mean , respect to the aged . To " honour the hoary head , and rise up before the face of the old man , " 1S a command of Jehovah . Those who have borne VALUE OF TIME . 23.
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... respect of the young , and the tribute is graceful to those who render it . Attention to brothers , sisters , and companions , culture of social feelings , punctuality in promises , kindness and courtesy to all , open an important and ...
... respect of the young , and the tribute is graceful to those who render it . Attention to brothers , sisters , and companions , culture of social feelings , punctuality in promises , kindness and courtesy to all , open an important and ...
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... respect to many of the other gifts of Heaven , our perception is quick , and our attachment ardent . We prize beauty because it charms the eye , though it fades like the summer- rose ; wealth , because it purchases the things that we ...
... respect to many of the other gifts of Heaven , our perception is quick , and our attachment ardent . We prize beauty because it charms the eye , though it fades like the summer- rose ; wealth , because it purchases the things that we ...
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... respect . Adulation is the food of the young and beautiful , but matu- rity requires stronger aliment . Nectar and am- brosia vanish with the brief goddesship of beauty , and she who feels the burdens of life , in their dense and ...
... respect . Adulation is the food of the young and beautiful , but matu- rity requires stronger aliment . Nectar and am- brosia vanish with the brief goddesship of beauty , and she who feels the burdens of life , in their dense and ...
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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.