Letters to Young LadiesHarper, 1838 - 259 páginas |
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... youth of my own sex , on subjects of simple nature , and serious concern . The employment has been pleas- ant , for their interests are dear to me ; and several years devoted to their instruction , have unfolded more fully their claims ...
... youth of my own sex , on subjects of simple nature , and serious concern . The employment has been pleas- ant , for their interests are dear to me ; and several years devoted to their instruction , have unfolded more fully their claims ...
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... a thorough and laborious education . Sloth and lux- ury must have no place in her vocabulary . Her youth should be surrounded by every motive to application , and her maturity dignified by the hal- lowed 14 GUARDIANS TO THE.
... a thorough and laborious education . Sloth and lux- ury must have no place in her vocabulary . Her youth should be surrounded by every motive to application , and her maturity dignified by the hal- lowed 14 GUARDIANS TO THE.
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... Youth would be too happy , might it add to its own beauty and felicity , the wisdom of riper years . Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time , as life's receding -hours will reveal it , how rapidly would it press on tow ...
... Youth would be too happy , might it add to its own beauty and felicity , the wisdom of riper years . Were it possible for it to realize the worth of time , as life's receding -hours will reveal it , how rapidly would it press on tow ...
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... youth , is a greater evil than at any other period of existence . " The mis- improvement of youthful days , " says an elegant writer , " is more than the mere loss of time . Figure to yourself the loss that the year would sustain were ...
... youth , is a greater evil than at any other period of existence . " The mis- improvement of youthful days , " says an elegant writer , " is more than the mere loss of time . Figure to yourself the loss that the year would sustain were ...
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... youth without motive and without improvement . Every one must stand alone to give account at last . The example of an associate will not be accepted as a palliation , nor the habit of excuse , however it might have deceived men ...
... youth without motive and without improvement . Every one must stand alone to give account at last . The example of an associate will not be accepted as a palliation , nor the habit of excuse , however it might have deceived men ...
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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.