The Works of Hannah More, Հատոր 2Harper & Brothers, 1836 |
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... that females of the higher class may combine more domestic knowledge with more intellectual acquirement , that they may be at the same time more knowing and more useful , than has always been thought necessary PREFACE . 7.
... that females of the higher class may combine more domestic knowledge with more intellectual acquirement , that they may be at the same time more knowing and more useful , than has always been thought necessary PREFACE . 7.
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... knowledge is not altogether a mere local advantage . These , and not the topics of the hour , furnish the best raw materials for working up an im- proving intercourse . It must be confessed , however , as I have since found , that for ...
... knowledge is not altogether a mere local advantage . These , and not the topics of the hour , furnish the best raw materials for working up an im- proving intercourse . It must be confessed , however , as I have since found , that for ...
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... knowledge which country society afforded , now expected to meet it in a strong and rapid current , fertilizing wherever it flowed , producing in abundance the rich fruits of argument , and the gay flowers of rhetoric . I looked for an ...
... knowledge which country society afforded , now expected to meet it in a strong and rapid current , fertilizing wherever it flowed , producing in abundance the rich fruits of argument , and the gay flowers of rhetoric . I looked for an ...
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... knowledge , he has but drawn the common lot , with the balance in his favor , of strong affection and unsullied virtue . He hardly ever sees his fine library , -which is the object of her supreme aversion , -but wastes his days in ...
... knowledge , he has but drawn the common lot , with the balance in his favor , of strong affection and unsullied virtue . He hardly ever sees his fine library , -which is the object of her supreme aversion , -but wastes his days in ...
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... knowledge of the world to a religious account , for it has enabled him to recommend re- ligion to those who do not ... knowledge of mankind , and by a principle which forbade his ever using this knowledge but for good purposes , than I ...
... knowledge of the world to a religious account , for it has enabled him to recommend re- ligion to those who do not ... knowledge of mankind , and by a principle which forbade his ever using this knowledge but for good purposes , than I ...
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Էջ 369 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Էջ 45 - Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove, When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Էջ 361 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Էջ 297 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Էջ 12 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Էջ 346 - Much less can that have any place At which a virgin hides her face, Such dross the fire must purge away; 'tis just The author blush, there where the reader must.
Էջ 244 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him ; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Էջ 421 - There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Էջ 9 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Էջ 274 - BLESSED is he that considereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.