Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and Morals, Volumen1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809 |
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... connection and of course the transition will be found more natural than may ap- pear , till developed by my slight narrative . CHAP . CHAP . II . I AM a young man , 10 CELEBS . But it is high time that I should pro- ...
... connection and of course the transition will be found more natural than may ap- pear , till developed by my slight narrative . CHAP . CHAP . II . I AM a young man , 10 CELEBS . But it is high time that I should pro- ...
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... naturally a keen relish for domestic happiness ; and this propensity had been cherished by what I had seen and enjoyed in my father's family . Home was the scene in which my imagination had pictured the only delights worthy of a ...
... naturally a keen relish for domestic happiness ; and this propensity had been cherished by what I had seen and enjoyed in my father's family . Home was the scene in which my imagination had pictured the only delights worthy of a ...
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... naturally inferred , that she who eagerly grasped at every petty provincial dissipation , would with increased alacrity have plunged into the more alluring gaieties of the metro- polis had it been in her power . I thought she had even ...
... naturally inferred , that she who eagerly grasped at every petty provincial dissipation , would with increased alacrity have plunged into the more alluring gaieties of the metro- polis had it been in her power . I thought she had even ...
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... natural sweetness of tem- per , joined to a mind not sufficiently in- formed and guided by scriptural truth . She was candid and teachable , but as she could not help seeing that she had more religion than most of her acquaintance , she ...
... natural sweetness of tem- per , joined to a mind not sufficiently in- formed and guided by scriptural truth . She was candid and teachable , but as she could not help seeing that she had more religion than most of her acquaintance , she ...
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... natural tendency to evil ; and thought it cruel to suppose that such innocent little things had any such wrong propensities as education would not effectually cure . In every thing the complete contrast of Mrs .. Ranby - as the latter ...
... natural tendency to evil ; and thought it cruel to suppose that such innocent little things had any such wrong propensities as education would not effectually cure . In every thing the complete contrast of Mrs .. Ranby - as the latter ...
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Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on ..., Volumen1 Hannah More Vista completa - 1809 |
Cœlebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on ..., Volumen1 Hannah More Vista completa - 1810 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance admire affection afraid amusement Aston Hall attention Barlow beauty Carlton censure CHAP character charity cheerful Christian conversation creatures daugh daughters dear delight dinner discourse divine divine grace doctrines duties elegant entertain excellent family party father faults fear feel Fentham fond girl give grace Grove habits happiness hear heard heart honour human husband Imake indulgence instruction kind knowlege labour Lady Belfield Lady Melbury learning less ligion lived look Lucilla marriage ments mind Miss Stanley mother natural ness never object observed opinion passion persons Phoebe piety pious pleasure poet poor post chaise pray principle profession racter Ranby raptures religion religious replied scripture seemed sense sermon shew Sir John soon spirit sure tain talents taste temper thing thought tion Titian tivated truth Tyrrel vanity vated venture virtue whole wife woman young
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Página 8 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Página 12 - Whatever earth, all-bearing mother, yields In India, East or West, or middle shore In Pontus, or the Punic coast, or where Alcinous reign'd, fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell, She gathers, tribute large, and on the board Heaps with unsparing hand...
Página 95 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness, earth and heaven!) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime: here hand in hand, Sit paramount the Graces; here enthroned, Celestial Venus, with divinest airs, Invites the soul to never-fading joy.
Página 14 - Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high...
Página 12 - Heaven." 330 So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste upheld with kindliest change...
Página 307 - This is eternal life, to know God and Jesus Christ whom he has sent. I desire to know nothing, save Jesus Christ. The natural man cannot know the things of the Spirit of God, The world by wisdom knew not God ; ' and a hundred other such passages, Tyrrel.
Página 20 - I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character ; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife. I call education, not that which is made up of the shreds and patches of useless arts, but that which inculcates principles, polishes taste, regulates temper, cultivates reason, subdues the passions, directs the feelings, habituates the reflection, trains to self-denial, and, more especially,...
Página 97 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Página 97 - Look then abroad through nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Página 47 - The intricate wards, and every bolt and bar Of massy iron or solid rock with ease Unfastens : on a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring Sound The infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.