The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volumen1W. Strahan, 1772 |
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... improvement upon my mind , I could not but conclude that a due regard being had to dif- ferent circumstances of life , it is a great injustice to fhut books of knowledge from the eyes of women . Mufing one day in this tract of thought ...
... improvement upon my mind , I could not but conclude that a due regard being had to dif- ferent circumstances of life , it is a great injustice to fhut books of knowledge from the eyes of women . Mufing one day in this tract of thought ...
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... improved his talent ? Many are the declara- tions in fcripture against the fluggish and diforderly . The Son of God was an example of active virtue as well as innocence , and did not only refrain from doing evil , but he'went about ...
... improved his talent ? Many are the declara- tions in fcripture against the fluggish and diforderly . The Son of God was an example of active virtue as well as innocence , and did not only refrain from doing evil , but he'went about ...
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... be the fate of the fluggard , who has loitered and flept away that precious time , which the God of it , his judge , had given him to improve ? B 4 The The guilt of this vice might be aggravated by enu- EMPLOYMENT . 7 .
... be the fate of the fluggard , who has loitered and flept away that precious time , which the God of it , his judge , had given him to improve ? B 4 The The guilt of this vice might be aggravated by enu- EMPLOYMENT . 7 .
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... improve that lei- fure which an eafy and affluent fortune gives them , than in divine meditation , in prayer , in reading , and inftruction , having opportunities to perform all thofe I duties with more zeal and folemnity , than those ...
... improve that lei- fure which an eafy and affluent fortune gives them , than in divine meditation , in prayer , in reading , and inftruction , having opportunities to perform all thofe I duties with more zeal and folemnity , than those ...
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... improving by them ; there's no lady , let the measure of her understanding be what it will , but may benefit by them ... improvement , as well as the more capable . To reading must be added converfation , which are together abfolutely ...
... improving by them ; there's no lady , let the measure of her understanding be what it will , but may benefit by them ... improvement , as well as the more capable . To reading must be added converfation , which are together abfolutely ...
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Página 45 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Página 14 - Sodom and her daughters1," and indeed is the burial of a living man, an idle person being so useless to any purposes of God and man, that he is like one that is dead, unconcerned in the changes and necessities of the world ; and he only lives to spend his time, and eat the fruits of the earth : like a vermin or a wolf...
Página 13 - For we must remember that we have a great work to do, many enemies to conquer, many evils to prevent, much danger to run through, many difficulties to be mastered, many necessities to serve, and much good to do...
Página 90 - ... For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner ; and he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: and, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Página 48 - Lay not up for yourfelves treafures upon earth, where moth and ruft doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and fteal...
Página 329 - ... made less heavy to them by the contemplation of their being laid out in state and honourably attended to the grave.
Página 80 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Página 274 - no one, who believes the Scriptures can doubt this." " And is not this," he said, " the very doctrine of the first part of the Creed ; ' that the Father is GOD, the Son is GOD, and the Holy Ghost is GOD; and yet they are not three GODS, but one GOD?
Página 260 - Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it : and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it : and if he have, that he speak it not again. Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.