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Pàgina 65 - Propriety is to a woman what the great Roman critic says action is to an orator; it is the first, the second, the third requisite.
Pàgina 88 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Pàgina 91 - Her husband's secrets she will not divulge : especially she is careful to conceal his infirmities. In her husband's absence she is wife and deputy husband, •which makes her double the files of her diligence. At his return he finds all things so well, that he wonders to see himself at home •when he was abroad.1 Her children, though many in number, are none in noise, steering them with a look whither she listeth.
Pàgina 91 - SHE commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. She never crosseth her husband in the springtide of his anger, but stays till it be ebbing-water.
Pàgina 30 - This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.
Pàgina 64 - I can't" has ruined many a man — has been the tomb of bright expectation, and of ardent hope. Let " I will try," be your motto in whatever you undertake, and, if you press onward, you will steadily and surely accomplish your object, and come off victorious. Try — keep trying, and you are made for this world.
Pàgina 43 - Home can never be transferred ; never repeated in the experience of an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first acquaintance with nature, by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home.
Pàgina 32 - Eden, welcome a new giiest. free nation is eminently due from the feebler sex, they have still a boon to request. They ask it as those already deeply indebted, yet conscious of ability to make a more ample gift profitable to the giver as well as the receiver. It seems desirable that their education should combine more thoroughness and solidity, that it should be expanded over a wider space of time, and that the depth of its foundation should bear better proportion to the height and elegance of its...
Pàgina 32 - THE importance of Education seems now to be universally admitted. It has become the favourite subject of some of the wisest and most gifted minds. It has incorporated itself with the very spirit of the nation.
Pàgina 34 - bear the burden and heat of the day,' that she may dwell in plenty and at ease. Yet from the very felicity of her lot, dangers arise. She is tempted to rest in superficial attainments, to yield to that indolence which spreads like rust over the intellect, and to merge the sense of her own responsibilities in the slumber of a luxurious life. These tendencies should he neutralized by an education of utility, rather than of ornament.

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