The True Woman: Elements of Character Drawn from the Life of Mary Lyon and OthersHodder & Stoughton, 1893 - 330 páginas |
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... honour and purity which have ever characterized her reign . Her husband died when the child was but eight months old . The House of Commons sent a committee with an address of condolence to the afflicted widow . She met the deputation ...
... honour and purity which have ever characterized her reign . Her husband died when the child was but eight months old . The House of Commons sent a committee with an address of condolence to the afflicted widow . She met the deputation ...
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... honour of the young princess were first made , her mother said to her , " It is not you , but your future office and rank , which are regarded by the country , and you must so act as never to bring that office and that rank into ...
... honour of the young princess were first made , her mother said to her , " It is not you , but your future office and rank , which are regarded by the country , and you must so act as never to bring that office and that rank into ...
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... in her laughing eye and bounding heart , " Give me position ! Let wealth be mine , and let me be dandled in the lap of luxury , while admirers flock around my path , and grace and beauty become my passport to honoured circles 16.
... in her laughing eye and bounding heart , " Give me position ! Let wealth be mine , and let me be dandled in the lap of luxury , while admirers flock around my path , and grace and beauty become my passport to honoured circles 16.
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... honoured circles . And when my hand and heart are claimed for a life - alliance , may it be by some distinguished votary of ... honour upon woman , thus C entirely forgetting that qualitics of heart have any- thing to A Girl's Mistake . 17.
... honoured circles . And when my hand and heart are claimed for a life - alliance , may it be by some distinguished votary of ... honour upon woman , thus C entirely forgetting that qualitics of heart have any- thing to A Girl's Mistake . 17.
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... honour lies , " they erroneously conclude that labour of almost any kind is not lady - like . Hence their desire to ... honoured ancestry and influence on their side , in preference to those of humble origin and circum- stances , though ...
... honour lies , " they erroneously conclude that labour of almost any kind is not lady - like . Hence their desire to ... honoured ancestry and influence on their side , in preference to those of humble origin and circum- stances , though ...
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Página 177 - She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
Página 177 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Página 228 - And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Página 228 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Página 36 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Página 154 - Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, * Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Página 27 - She became prudent from affection; and though of the most generous nature, she was taught economy and frugality by her love for me. During the most critical period of my life, she preserved order in my affairs, from the care of which she relieved me. She gently reclaimed me from dissipation; she propped my weak and irresolute nature; she urged my indolence to all the exertions that have been useful or creditable to me; and she was perpetually at hand to admonish my heedlessness and improvidence....
Página 126 - ... out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gem.
Página 221 - The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness...
Página 35 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.