Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 Seiten Introduction -- Sphere and duties of woman -- Education of woman -- Moral uses of poetry -- The moral nature of man -- Progress and prospects of society. |
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... past furnish no parallel . We cannot see man as he is , through the medium of what he has been , even were that medium not as it is , misty and obscure . The burning of the Alexandrian library was not so great a loss perhaps as it has ...
... past furnish no parallel . We cannot see man as he is , through the medium of what he has been , even were that medium not as it is , misty and obscure . The burning of the Alexandrian library was not so great a loss perhaps as it has ...
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... past . But I must value it for what it has , and not for what it has not . I value antiquity for its facts , but for its opinions I cannot entertain any profound respect . There is a fallacy in the very language , when we speak of anti ...
... past . But I must value it for what it has , and not for what it has not . I value antiquity for its facts , but for its opinions I cannot entertain any profound respect . There is a fallacy in the very language , when we speak of anti ...
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... past , to which he had access , were only a few uncertain traditions extending a few ages into the realms of barbarism and utter night . What could he know of the work- ing of a republican government under all possible circumstances ...
... past , to which he had access , were only a few uncertain traditions extending a few ages into the realms of barbarism and utter night . What could he know of the work- ing of a republican government under all possible circumstances ...
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... past generation is the dawn of a new and brighter day . Every new generation commences existence under better auspices , for it enters upon the world , not only rich in itself , but laden with the spoils of all past time . Thousands ...
... past generation is the dawn of a new and brighter day . Every new generation commences existence under better auspices , for it enters upon the world , not only rich in itself , but laden with the spoils of all past time . Thousands ...
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... past is pre- sent , the distant is brought near , and the soul , freed from every tie , seems even now an inhabitant of eternity and immensity . It feels with the poet that , " Night is the time to think , — When from the eye the soul ...
... past is pre- sent , the distant is brought near , and the soul , freed from every tie , seems even now an inhabitant of eternity and immensity . It feels with the poet that , " Night is the time to think , — When from the eye the soul ...
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Seite 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Seite 202 - The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. "The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
Seite 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Seite 191 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Seite 190 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Seite 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Seite 184 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
Seite 181 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the...
Seite 190 - All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Seite 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.