Man's Strength and Woman's Beauty: A Treatise on the Physical Life of Both Sexes, Embracing the Royal Road to Life, Love, and Longevity : Including an Outline of how Human Life Begins ; Its Growth and Expansion in Youth ; Its Perfection Under the Laws of Love ; and the General Discipline by which Its Happiness is Fostered and Matured

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Jones Brothers and Company, 1879 - 515 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 162 - Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd.
Pàgina 268 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Pàgina 193 - Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of Naughtiness, the step-mother of Discipline, the chief author of all Mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the Devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of Melancholy, but of many other diseases, for the mind is naturally active, and if it be not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into Mischief, or sinks into Melancholy.
Pàgina 153 - Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleave* of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ; — Lady M.
Pàgina 105 - Of long uninterrupted evening, know." 13. A fashionable lady might say, "I cannot give up fashionable amusements; I must enjoy myself as others do ; I might as well be out of the world as out of the fashion.
Pàgina 145 - Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed; How nature paints her colours ; how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Pàgina 113 - Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, For the dark rust assaileth ! Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon. Labor is glory! the flying cloud lightens; Only the waving wing changes and brightens ; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens: Play the sweet keys Wouldst thou keep them in tune!
Pàgina 111 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Pàgina 309 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Pàgina 105 - Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts, that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.

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