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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... religious nature . 192 The natural expression of devotion ..... 199 LECTURE VII . THE MORAL NATURE OF MAN . 204 Truth ... Religion originates in the moral faculties ......... .. 231 LECTURE VIII . PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY .. 236 ...
... religious nature . 192 The natural expression of devotion ..... 199 LECTURE VII . THE MORAL NATURE OF MAN . 204 Truth ... Religion originates in the moral faculties ......... .. 231 LECTURE VIII . PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY .. 236 ...
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... overgrown population and a corrupt religion set bounds to all improvement . What an encounter is that , when the English man - of - war points its thunders against a whole fleet of the clumsy and ill 22 INTRODUCTORY . American Literature ...
... overgrown population and a corrupt religion set bounds to all improvement . What an encounter is that , when the English man - of - war points its thunders against a whole fleet of the clumsy and ill 22 INTRODUCTORY . American Literature ...
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... religion . Every thing which spreads abroad light and intelligence is congenial with their great purpose of enlightening and reforming the world . Christianity , kept back from mankind through four thousand years of barbarism , was ...
... religion . Every thing which spreads abroad light and intelligence is congenial with their great purpose of enlightening and reforming the world . Christianity , kept back from mankind through four thousand years of barbarism , was ...
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... religion there is no other guaranty so certain for their safety , their prosperity , their honorable career through life , as an early and decided taste for moral , intellectual , and literary culture . In this young , free , and ...
... religion there is no other guaranty so certain for their safety , their prosperity , their honorable career through life , as an early and decided taste for moral , intellectual , and literary culture . In this young , free , and ...
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... instinctive reverence which the two sexes have for each other above and beyond that which they cherish for their own . It is a sort of human religion . The human soul , made after the similitude of God , 50 SPHERE AND DUTIES OF WOMAN .
... instinctive reverence which the two sexes have for each other above and beyond that which they cherish for their own . It is a sort of human religion . The human soul , made after the similitude of God , 50 SPHERE AND DUTIES OF WOMAN .
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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.