The Daughters of England: Their Position in Society, Character and ResponsibilitiesFisher, 1842 - 396 Seiten |
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acquaintance admiration affection amongst amusement attention beauty become believe cacy calculated character charm Christian conduct consequence conversation cultivation Daugh daughters of England domestic duty early endeavour enjoyment especially evil exercise experience faculty faith falsehood fashion favour feeling female folly frequently friends friendship gratitude habit happiness Harriet Martineau heart human important individual influence intellectual interest Isaac Taylor John Angell James kind knowledge lence less lives look Mary Howitt MASTERMAN READY means ment mind moral nature ness never object observation occupied Oliver Goldsmith pain parents perhaps Phrenology pleasure poetry principle racter religion religious render rience Robinson Crusoe Sartor Resartus scarcely season selfishness social society sometimes speak spirit suffering taste temper things thought tion trifling true truth tural Uncle Benjamin vanity Vicar of Wakefield vidual vulgar woman young ladies young persons young women youth
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Seite 88 - The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blest be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it) here shines on me still the same.
Seite 74 - I should like to excel in something" is a frequent and, to some extent, laudable expression; but in what does it originate, and to what does it tend? To be able to do a great many things tolerably well, is of infinitely more value to a woman, than to be able to excel in any one. By the former, she may render herself generally useful; by the latter, she may dazzle for an hour. By being apt, and tolerably well skilled in...
Seite 95 - They sin who tell us love can die. With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth. But love is indestructible— Its holy flame for ever burneth ; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
Seite 127 - ... of the face, than upon the form of the features, when at rest ; and thus, a countenance habitually under the influence of amiable feelings acquires a beauty of the highest order, from the frequency with which such feelings are the originating...
Seite 262 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Seite 281 - PICTORIAL ROBINSON CRUSOE. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel De Foe. With a Memoir of the Author, and an Essay on his Writings, with upwards of 300 spirited Engravings, by the celebrated French artist, Grandville One elegant volume, octavo, of 500 pages.