The School for Sisters, Or, The Lesson of ExperienceLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 246 páginas |
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... mind with much useful and polite knowledge . Young as were Ellen and Clara , she lost not the opportunity of impressing on their minds a useful lesson connected with the memory of their departed relatives . " Your dear papa and aunt ...
... mind with much useful and polite knowledge . Young as were Ellen and Clara , she lost not the opportunity of impressing on their minds a useful lesson connected with the memory of their departed relatives . " Your dear papa and aunt ...
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... mind might be diverted by the novelty , and her exertion roused by the emulation , prevailing among a large number of girls , mostly older and cleverer than herself . A former friend of her own presided over a genteel establishment at ...
... mind might be diverted by the novelty , and her exertion roused by the emulation , prevailing among a large number of girls , mostly older and cleverer than herself . A former friend of her own presided over a genteel establishment at ...
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... mind and body . The next morning she was startled from dis- turbed slumber by the ringing of the great bell at six o'clock . Ellen woke with a painful sense of oppression of spirits , without knowing for some moments what was its cause ...
... mind and body . The next morning she was startled from dis- turbed slumber by the ringing of the great bell at six o'clock . Ellen woke with a painful sense of oppression of spirits , without knowing for some moments what was its cause ...
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... ny , that I shall think it necessary to speak for you . I think your papa was in no business ? ” " Not when he died , " said Ellen , " but be- fore . " " Oh , never mind what happened a hundred Now 10 THE SCHOOL FOR SISTERS .
... ny , that I shall think it necessary to speak for you . I think your papa was in no business ? ” " Not when he died , " said Ellen , " but be- fore . " " Oh , never mind what happened a hundred Now 10 THE SCHOOL FOR SISTERS .
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School. " Oh , never mind what happened a hundred Now for servants ; how many do years ago . you keep ? " 66 Only the one you saw at the door , and a cook . " " What , no footmen , shocking ! No carriage ... mind what happened a hundred ...
School. " Oh , never mind what happened a hundred Now for servants ; how many do years ago . you keep ? " 66 Only the one you saw at the door , and a cook . " " What , no footmen , shocking ! No carriage ... mind what happened a hundred ...
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Página 16 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Página 16 - If any man lack Wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth freely to them that ask him, and upbraideth no man, James, 1 : 5.
Página 113 - ... a foolish contempt, the proper occasions for exercising them. It is not in the study of sublime speculations, nor amidst the pompous scenery of some imaginary theatre of action, that the heart grows wiser, or the temper more correct. It is in the daily occurrences of mere common life, with all its mixture of folly and impertinence, that the proper exercise of virtue lies. It is here that the temptations to vanity, to selfishness, to discontent, and innumerable other unwarrantable affections arise;...
Página 113 - I believe it is much oftener our pride than our virtue, which is hurt, by a submission to what we are- apt to deem trifles. We are led to form much too magnificent ideas of our own powers of action, and by this means, to overlook, with a foolish contempt, the proper occasions for exercising them. It is not in the study of sublime speculations, nor amidst the pompous scenery of some imaginary theatre of action, that the heart grows wiser, or the temper more correct. It is in the daily occurrences...