The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 էջ |
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... opinion that the majority of Englishwomen of culture take a reasonably just view of their position and destiny . The ladies who raise a clamour for certain political and social privileges never hitherto allowed to women are so ...
... opinion that the majority of Englishwomen of culture take a reasonably just view of their position and destiny . The ladies who raise a clamour for certain political and social privileges never hitherto allowed to women are so ...
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... opinions are gradually fused into an identity with his own . In this process there is no loss of individuality : a girl does not become a woman until she is a wife , does not develop her true character . As I have written else- where ...
... opinions are gradually fused into an identity with his own . In this process there is no loss of individuality : a girl does not become a woman until she is a wife , does not develop her true character . As I have written else- where ...
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... opinions , laughing to scorn all attempts to argue with it . Indeed it is only too pleased to argue with its seniors , and to claim for its own intuitions superiority over their hard - won experience . The reason of all this is clear ...
... opinions , laughing to scorn all attempts to argue with it . Indeed it is only too pleased to argue with its seniors , and to claim for its own intuitions superiority over their hard - won experience . The reason of all this is clear ...
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... opinion that the women who are so vociferous and persistent in their hysteric cries to heaven and earth for a career would be far wiser if they qualified themselves to be useful wives . Here , I say , O shrilly eloquent ladies , there ...
... opinion that the women who are so vociferous and persistent in their hysteric cries to heaven and earth for a career would be far wiser if they qualified themselves to be useful wives . Here , I say , O shrilly eloquent ladies , there ...
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... opinion has utterly condemned it . The brains may be out , but the man won't die . It seems to me that for some time the brains have been out of our English political organisation : that we go on without much harm is due to the imper ...
... opinion has utterly condemned it . The brains may be out , but the man won't die . It seems to me that for some time the brains have been out of our English political organisation : that we go on without much harm is due to the imper ...
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Էջ 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Էջ 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...