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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Página 73
... suffering from the want of physical comforts ; the ruder the cabin , the more scantily it is supplied with the ne- cessary furniture for cooking , warming , and repose , the more pitiable is her condition . And where there is no law but ...
... suffering from the want of physical comforts ; the ruder the cabin , the more scantily it is supplied with the ne- cessary furniture for cooking , warming , and repose , the more pitiable is her condition . And where there is no law but ...
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... suffering party . I repeat it then , every American woman has reason to thank God every day of her life , that she ... suffers for it in the end , by the feebleness , effeminacy , helplessness and bad health which it induces . For my own ...
... suffering party . I repeat it then , every American woman has reason to thank God every day of her life , that she ... suffers for it in the end , by the feebleness , effeminacy , helplessness and bad health which it induces . For my own ...
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... suffering , by im- paired health , an enfeebled constitution , dis- ordered nerves , wretchedness and dejection . Now let us see if one single law of all these I have enumerated , is observed in this coun- try , especially among the ...
... suffering , by im- paired health , an enfeebled constitution , dis- ordered nerves , wretchedness and dejection . Now let us see if one single law of all these I have enumerated , is observed in this coun- try , especially among the ...
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... of things the moral dispositions suffer . The temper cannot retain its sunny brightness , and a new generation coming forward with the charms of youth and beauty , is in no degree calculated to increase SPHERE AND DUTIES OF WOMAN . 107.
... of things the moral dispositions suffer . The temper cannot retain its sunny brightness , and a new generation coming forward with the charms of youth and beauty , is in no degree calculated to increase SPHERE AND DUTIES OF WOMAN . 107.
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... suffer her husband's attention to be dis- tracted by details , to which her own time and talents are adequate . If she be prompted by true affection and good sense , she will perceive 112 SPHERE AND DUTIES OF WOMAN .
... suffer her husband's attention to be dis- tracted by details , to which her own time and talents are adequate . If she be prompted by true affection and good sense , she will perceive 112 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.