CharacterJ. Murray, 1876 - 388 էջ |
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... importance that a nation should have a great past1 to look back upon . It steadies the life of the present , elevates and upholds it , and lightens and lifts it up , by the memory of the great deeds , the noble sufferings , and the ...
... importance that a nation should have a great past1 to look back upon . It steadies the life of the present , elevates and upholds it , and lightens and lifts it up , by the memory of the great deeds , the noble sufferings , and the ...
Էջ 34
... importance . Place even the highest - minded philosopher in the midst of daily discomfort , immorality , and vileness , and he will insensibly gravitate towards brutality . How much more susceptible is the impres- sionable and helpless ...
... importance . Place even the highest - minded philosopher in the midst of daily discomfort , immorality , and vileness , and he will insensibly gravitate towards brutality . How much more susceptible is the impres- sionable and helpless ...
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... importance in moulding the nature of the child ; and if we would have fine characters , we must neces sarily present before them fine models . Now , the model most constantly before every child's eye is the Mother . One good mother ...
... importance in moulding the nature of the child ; and if we would have fine characters , we must neces sarily present before them fine models . Now , the model most constantly before every child's eye is the Mother . One good mother ...
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... importance in the home . It is easy to understand how this should be so . The home is the woman's domain - her kingdom , where she exercises entire control . Her power over the little subjects she rules there is absolute . They look up ...
... importance in the home . It is easy to understand how this should be so . The home is the woman's domain - her kingdom , where she exercises entire control . Her power over the little subjects she rules there is absolute . They look up ...
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... importance of woman as an educator of character , that he described a good mother as " Nature's chef- d'œuvre . " And he was right : for good mothers , far more than fathers , tend to the perpetual renovation of mankind , creating , as ...
... importance of woman as an educator of character , that he described a good mother as " Nature's chef- d'œuvre . " And he was right : for good mothers , far more than fathers , tend to the perpetual renovation of mankind , creating , as ...
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Էջ 185 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Էջ 249 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee...
Էջ 327 - MORTON'S WIFE. He first deceased ; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Էջ 171 - High-heartedness doth sometimes teach to bow. A noble heart doth teach a virtuous scorn, To scorn to owe a duty overlong ; To scorn to be for benefits forborne, To scorn to lie, to scorn to do a wrong. To scorn to bear an injury in mind, To scorn a free-born heart slave-like to bind.
Էջ 3 - He bade me act a manly part, though I had ne'er a farthing, O For without an honest manly heart, no man was worth regarding, O. Then out into the world my course I did determine, O Tho...
Էջ 297 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Էջ 187 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another : for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Էջ 250 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Էջ 250 - tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear...