Female Biography: Containing Notices of Distinguished Women, in Different Nations and AgesJ. Carpenter, 1834 - 501 páginas |
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Página vi
... taste . If women had been so degraded as some writers would have us believe , would the great dramatists , those mighty masters in the knowledge of human nature , have given us such pictures of females as they have ? The ancient drama ...
... taste . If women had been so degraded as some writers would have us believe , would the great dramatists , those mighty masters in the knowledge of human nature , have given us such pictures of females as they have ? The ancient drama ...
Página viii
... taste is only surpassed by her judgment , and whose piety consecrates what her muse inspires . " Man might be initiated into the varieties and mysteries of needle - work ; taught to have patience with the feebleness and waywardness of ...
... taste is only surpassed by her judgment , and whose piety consecrates what her muse inspires . " Man might be initiated into the varieties and mysteries of needle - work ; taught to have patience with the feebleness and waywardness of ...
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... taste , may be differently arranged , according , if you please , to a sexual discrimination ; but , if this is done naturally , there can be no great difference after all . Well educated women have always an oppor- tunity , greater or ...
... taste , may be differently arranged , according , if you please , to a sexual discrimination ; but , if this is done naturally , there can be no great difference after all . Well educated women have always an oppor- tunity , greater or ...
Página xii
... taste for reading and judging of character is as much acquired , as a taste for examining and criticising the pictures of the great artists . Biography should hold a place between geography and history , and should be studied as ...
... taste for reading and judging of character is as much acquired , as a taste for examining and criticising the pictures of the great artists . Biography should hold a place between geography and history , and should be studied as ...
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... taste for the consumption of the arti- cle also . The show of lace generally increased with years of single blessedness . The importation of lace was nearly cut off , and the home - made was used , to a very considerable extent , du ...
... taste for the consumption of the arti- cle also . The show of lace generally increased with years of single blessedness . The importation of lace was nearly cut off , and the home - made was used , to a very considerable extent , du ...
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Página 52 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Página 58 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Página 389 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Página 21 - The place of fame and elegy supply : And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er...
Página 22 - Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife : there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Página 381 - YE say, they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That, 'mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, — Ye may not wash it out.
Página 21 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 303 - THE playful smiles around the dimpled mouth, That happy air of majesty and truth, So would I draw : but oh ! 'tis vain to try ; My narrow genius does the power deny. The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's...
Página 438 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband : and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Página 95 - But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise mine...