A father's legacy to his daughers1805 |
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Seite 53 - When your friends inform you of these, they have fulfilled their duty. If they go further, they have not that deference for you which a becoming dignity on your part would effectually command. Whatever your views are in marrying, take every possible precaution to prevent their being disappointed. If fortune and the pleasures it brings are your aim, it is not sufficient that the...
Seite 46 - But, if it was true, the belief that it was so, and the consequent impatience to be married, is the most effectual way to prevent it. You must not think from this, that I do not wish you to marry. On the contrary...
Seite 41 - You may easily show that you want to avoid his company; but if he is a man whose friendship you wish to preserve, you may not choose this method, because then you lose him in every capacity ; you may get a common friend to explain matters to him, or fall on many other devices, if you are seriously anxious to put him out of suspense.
Seite 26 - ... be excused from this by any extent of fortune, though with a narrow one the ruin that follows the neglect of it may be more immediate.
Seite 18 - If he has any opportunities of seeing you, he will soon discover it himself; and if you have any advantages of person or manner, and keep your own secret, he will probably give you credit for a great deal more than you possess.
Seite 19 - As your interests more frequently clash, and as your feelings are quicker than ours, your temptations to it are more frequent. For this reason, be particularly tender of the reputation of your own sex, especially when they happen to rival you in our regards.
Seite 49 - You may, perhaps, imagine that the reserved behaviour which I recommend to you, and your appearing seldom at public places, must cut off all opportunities of your being acquainted with gentlemen. I am very far from intending this. I advise you to no reserve but what will render you more respected and beloved by our sex. I do not think public places suited to make people acquainted together : they can only be distinguished there by their looks and external...
Seite 15 - ... but I could not yield to her in that kind of generosity. When I lost her, I became still more determined to educate you in that church, as I feel a secret pleasure in doing every thing that appears to me to express my affection and veneration for her memory. — I draw but a very faint and imperfect picture of what your mother urns, \vhile I endeavour to point out what you should be.
Seite 25 - The intention of your being taught needlework, knitting, and such like, is not on account of the intrinsic value of all you can do with your hands, which is trifling...
Seite 38 - ... she is not extremely on her guard. The finest parts in such a girl may not always prove sufficient for her security. The dark and crooked paths of cunning are unsearchable and...