Letters to a Young Lady: In which the Duties and Character of Women are Considered, Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions, Volumen1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1806 - 466 páginas |
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... allows us to believe the glorified spirit of your pious parent has now entered , depended upon the brief termination of her mortal course . Of this we are sure , that the merciful Father of the human race sees it expedient to perfect ...
... allows us to believe the glorified spirit of your pious parent has now entered , depended upon the brief termination of her mortal course . Of this we are sure , that the merciful Father of the human race sees it expedient to perfect ...
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... allowed . Encouraged by her praises , guided by her taste , and ( what was in- finitely more important to me ) correct- ed and improved in my moral judgment by the silent eloquence of her blameless manners , I started in the career of ...
... allowed . Encouraged by her praises , guided by her taste , and ( what was in- finitely more important to me ) correct- ed and improved in my moral judgment by the silent eloquence of her blameless manners , I started in the career of ...
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... allows us under the sorrows incident to those duties ; and what are the incidental as well as future rewards which we are autho rized to expect , will form an agreeable exercise to the well - disposed mind , when it is wearied with ...
... allows us under the sorrows incident to those duties ; and what are the incidental as well as future rewards which we are autho rized to expect , will form an agreeable exercise to the well - disposed mind , when it is wearied with ...
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... allow . Its effects on the si- tuation of our sex must not be limited to those times , when the mistress of the the joust awarded the prize among contending assertors of her 40 us, from mere objects of sensual desire, ...
... allow . Its effects on the si- tuation of our sex must not be limited to those times , when the mistress of the the joust awarded the prize among contending assertors of her 40 us, from mere objects of sensual desire, ...
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... allows our relative importance . No nation has preserved its political independence for any long period after its women be- came dissipated and licentious . When : the hallowed graces of the chaste ma- tron have given place to the bold ...
... allows our relative importance . No nation has preserved its political independence for any long period after its women be- came dissipated and licentious . When : the hallowed graces of the chaste ma- tron have given place to the bold ...
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Letters to a Young Lady: In which the Duties and Character of ..., Volumen1 Jane West Vista completa - 1806 |
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Página 206 - The lot is fallen unto me in a fair ground ; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Página 154 - An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
Página 89 - Next for poor suffering guilt ; and, last of all, For parents, friends, a king and country's fall. Mark her fair votaries, prodigal of grief, . With cureless pangs, and woes that mock relief, Droop in soft sorrow o'er a faded flower ; O'er a dead jack-ass...
Página 322 - Whatsoever ye would that others should do to you, do ye even so to them.
Página i - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Página 445 - The true, lively, and justifying faith, and the spirit of GOD justifying, is not extinguished, doth not utterly fail, doth not vanish away in the elect, either finally or totally.
Página 458 - It may be answered, that in these realms she is the constituted guardian of the national religion, and is therefore legally empowered to execute the divine command of " contending earnestly for " the faith once delivered to the
Página 251 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 176 - , is manifestly inconsistent with "itself; and, in my opinion, the three posses" sives are all wrong : ' The kitchen too now "'begins to give dreadful note of preparation; " ' not from armorers accomplishing the knights, " 'but from the shopmaid's chopping force-meat, "'the apprentice's cleaning knives, and the " 'journeyman's receiving a practical lesson in "'the art of waiting at table.
Página 446 - No man is able to come to Christ, unless it be given him, and unless the Father draw him: and all men are not drawn by the Father, that they may come to his Son. 9. It is not in the will or power of every man to be saved.