Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 стор. Introduction -- Sphere and duties of woman -- Education of woman -- Moral uses of poetry -- The moral nature of man -- Progress and prospects of society. |
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... hope of success . These two bards alone seem to despairing genius to have exhausted human nature , the common field of imagina- tive composition , and to have left nothing to be said . But it is not so . When the cry was raised that the ...
... hope of success . These two bards alone seem to despairing genius to have exhausted human nature , the common field of imagina- tive composition , and to have left nothing to be said . But it is not so . When the cry was raised that the ...
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... hope of transmitting family distinction sus- tained only by wealth . The genius of our institutions is altogether against it . No where has Mind obtained a supremacy so entire . Wealth may here be an accessory , and a com- fortable ...
... hope of transmitting family distinction sus- tained only by wealth . The genius of our institutions is altogether against it . No where has Mind obtained a supremacy so entire . Wealth may here be an accessory , and a com- fortable ...
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... hope of her favor determines the aspirations and the efforts of those who are forming characters for life . She needs not be assured , that it is for her own sake that we invite her into the pleasant walks of letters , that there is ...
... hope of her favor determines the aspirations and the efforts of those who are forming characters for life . She needs not be assured , that it is for her own sake that we invite her into the pleasant walks of letters , that there is ...
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... hope to do is this , to lead those who listen to me to serious reflection , to give them a more thorough knowledge of their constitution , faculties , aptitudes , a clearer conception of their relative position , and the duties which ...
... hope to do is this , to lead those who listen to me to serious reflection , to give them a more thorough knowledge of their constitution , faculties , aptitudes , a clearer conception of their relative position , and the duties which ...
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... hope . resist the influences , which tend to divide their hearts as well as their fortunes ? The best security for lasting attachment and for happy intercourse through life , is the assi- duous cultivation , so long as they are together ...
... hope . resist the influences , which tend to divide their hearts as well as their fortunes ? The best security for lasting attachment and for happy intercourse through life , is the assi- duous cultivation , so long as they are together ...
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Сторінка 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Сторінка 202 - The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. "The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
Сторінка 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Сторінка 191 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Сторінка 190 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Сторінка 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Сторінка 184 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
Сторінка 181 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the...
Сторінка 190 - All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Сторінка 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.