Letters on the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Lady and a Father's Legacy to His DaughtersBrettell and Company, 1808 - 170 Seiten |
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Seite 146 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Seite 142 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company.— But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Seite 13 - Moses, whose faith and piety enabled him to undertake and execute the most arduous enterprises, and to pursue with unabated zeal the welfare of his countrymen ; even in the hour of death, this generous ardour still prevailed : his last moments were employed in fervent prayers for their prosperity, and in rapturous gratitude for the glimpse vouchsafed him of a Saviour, far greater than himself, whom God would one day raise up to his people. Thus did Moses, by the excellency of his faith, obtain a...
Seite 53 - Whoso casteth a stone at the birds frayeth them away ; and he that upbraideth his friend, breaketh friendship. Though thou drawest a sword at a friend, yet despair not, for there may be a returning to favour. If thou hast opened thy mouth against thy friend, fear not, for there may be a reconciliation; except for upbraiding, or pride, or disclosing of secrets, or a treacherous wound ; for, for these things every friend will depart.
Seite 54 - Whoso discovereth secrets, loseth his credit, and shall never find a friend to his mind. Love thy friend and be faithful unto him ; but if thou bewrayest his secrets, follow no more after him : for as a man hath destroyed his enemy, so hast thou lost the love of thy friend ; as one that letteth a bird go out of his hand, so hast thou let thy friend go, and shall not get him again.
Seite 22 - ... impossible to read the life and death of our blessed Saviour, without renewing and increasing in our hearts that love and reverence, and gratitude towards him, which is so justly due for all he did and suffered for us ! Every word that fell from his lips is more precious than all the treasures of the earth ; for his "are the words of eternal life...
Seite 8 - Moses ; which, as they were designed for universal laws, are worded in the most concise and simple manner, yet with a majesty which commands our utmost reverence. . .' . I think you will receive great pleasure, as well as improvement, from the Historical Books of the Old Testament — provided you read them as an history, in a regular course, and keep the thread of it in your mind, as you go on. I know of none, true or fictitious, that is equally wonderful, interesting, and affecting ; or that is...
Seite 166 - The world would therefore look on you as unreasonable women, and that did not deserve to be happy, if you were not so. To avoid these complicated evils, if you are determined at all events to marry, I would advise you to make all your reading and amusements of such a kind as do not affect the heart nor the imagination, except in the way of wit or humour.
Seite 24 - ... good to the souls and bodies of men!. ..not the meanest sinner is below his notice:. ..To reclaim and save them, he condescends to converse familiarly with the most corrupt, as well as the most abject. All his miracles are wrought to benefit mankind ; not one to punish and afflict them. Instead of using the almighty power, which accompanied him, to the purpose of exalting himself, and treading down his enemies, he makes no other use of it than to heal and to save. When you come to read of his...
Seite 148 - ... knitting, and such like, is not on account of the intrinsic value of all you can do with your hands, which is trifling; but to enable you to judge more perfectly of that kind of work, and to direct the execution of it in others.