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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Página 51
... afford such gratification to those who have made some progress in , those branches of learning , that they often entirely absorb the faculties , and ren- der der the common duties of life tasteless + and disgusting 51.
... afford such gratification to those who have made some progress in , those branches of learning , that they often entirely absorb the faculties , and ren- der der the common duties of life tasteless + and disgusting 51.
Página 136
... learning , by splendid asylums for infancy and sickness , and by com- fortable habitations for age and pe- nury . Charity is therefore only , what it ever has been , a striking feature in our national character . It is , indeed , so ...
... learning , by splendid asylums for infancy and sickness , and by com- fortable habitations for age and pe- nury . Charity is therefore only , what it ever has been , a striking feature in our national character . It is , indeed , so ...
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... learning and the fine arts , and the encouragers of all the happy efforts of mechanical industry . From persons thus circumstanced , society demands munificence , splen- * Mandeville . dour , dour , and hospitality . Liberality , ele ...
... learning and the fine arts , and the encouragers of all the happy efforts of mechanical industry . From persons thus circumstanced , society demands munificence , splen- * Mandeville . dour , dour , and hospitality . Liberality , ele ...
Página 300
... learning will be chiefly bounded by the compound epi- thets of immensely dull , horribly fa- tiguing , and insufferably vapid . A few mornings ' observation will show her what misfortune is most in vogue , and give the proper tinge to ...
... learning will be chiefly bounded by the compound epi- thets of immensely dull , horribly fa- tiguing , and insufferably vapid . A few mornings ' observation will show her what misfortune is most in vogue , and give the proper tinge to ...
Página 316
... learning or science ; and in what respect does considerate expenditure ( we are now addressing a class to which the term frugality may seem unappropriate ) imply the absence of any noble quality ? Can generosity , can benevolence ...
... learning or science ; and in what respect does considerate expenditure ( we are now addressing a class to which the term frugality may seem unappropriate ) imply the absence of any noble quality ? Can generosity , can benevolence ...
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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.