Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 páginas Introduction -- Sphere and duties of woman -- Education of woman -- Moral uses of poetry -- The moral nature of man -- Progress and prospects of society. |
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... come with the lapse of years , and happy will she be if the latter be not proportionably destroyed . What is true of our city when compared with her seniors on this continent , is true of our whole country when compared with the nations ...
... come with the lapse of years , and happy will she be if the latter be not proportionably destroyed . What is true of our city when compared with her seniors on this continent , is true of our whole country when compared with the nations ...
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... the progress of the world . The profoundest wisdom can come only from the widest induction of particulars . It is irrational then to adopt the conclusions of even wiser men than ourselves , who lived long ago 18 INTRODUCTORY .
... the progress of the world . The profoundest wisdom can come only from the widest induction of particulars . It is irrational then to adopt the conclusions of even wiser men than ourselves , who lived long ago 18 INTRODUCTORY .
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... come fully round the earth , and English science , art and civilization meet and mea- sure strength with Asiatic science , art , and civilization as it was when an overgrown population and a corrupt religion set bounds to all ...
... come fully round the earth , and English science , art and civilization meet and mea- sure strength with Asiatic science , art , and civilization as it was when an overgrown population and a corrupt religion set bounds to all ...
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... come back to be a subordinate at home , with a comparatively small compensation . " Well , " said he , " I did not like it ; I had nobody to speak to , and besides , I could not get my newspapers . " There spoke the American . He had ...
... come back to be a subordinate at home , with a comparatively small compensation . " Well , " said he , " I did not like it ; I had nobody to speak to , and besides , I could not get my newspapers . " There spoke the American . He had ...
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... come , nay , we believe it has come already , when mankind putting away childish things will find their highest pleasure in the pursuit of knowledge ; they will forsake the gaudy shows of the theatre for the higher pleasures of the ...
... come , nay , we believe it has come already , when mankind putting away childish things will find their highest pleasure in the pursuit of knowledge ; they will forsake the gaudy shows of the theatre for the higher pleasures of the ...
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accomplishments affection ages Athens beauty become bosom character condition cultivated daughter delight dition Divine DUTIES OF WOMAN earth effeminacy elevation eloquence existence eyes fear feeling female genius give Greece happiness higher consciousness hope human heart human mind human nature infinite influence instinct of property intellectual interest JOHN HALL JOHN MURPHY knowledge labor lectures legislation literary literature live Lord mankind marriage means ment minister Moral Constitution moral instincts moral nature moral sense mother ness never night noble passions perfect perpetual pleasures poet poetry principle prosperity public opinion refined religion religious reverence rience rivers of Babylon sacred sentiments society soul spect SPHERE AND DUTIES spirit spring stronger than death sympathy taste things thought tion toil true truth tural utter vated voice whole wife wisdom wise women young youth
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Página 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 202 - The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. "The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
Página 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 191 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Página 190 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Página 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Página 184 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
Página 181 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the...
Página 190 - All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Página 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.