Ladies' Magazine, Volume 2Putnam & Hunt, 1829 |
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... turn our country into a great literary Factory , and set all our young ladies to spinning their brains . No - she wishes to direct them to a far nobler and more efficient method of gaining an influence , and maintaining an importance in so.
... turn our country into a great literary Factory , and set all our young ladies to spinning their brains . No - she wishes to direct them to a far nobler and more efficient method of gaining an influence , and maintaining an importance in so.
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... Turning slowly and sorrowfully away , I sought my lodgings ; but absorbed in so deep a reverie , that I hardly heeded whither I was wandering , till on attempting to turn a corner , I was unconsciously stepping into the open porch of a ...
... Turning slowly and sorrowfully away , I sought my lodgings ; but absorbed in so deep a reverie , that I hardly heeded whither I was wandering , till on attempting to turn a corner , I was unconsciously stepping into the open porch of a ...
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... turns the conversation to the country which he has adopted , and to which he has trans- ferred the strength of his affections . They speak of the wild Indian , and of the warfare , the sound of which comes some- times to their very ...
... turns the conversation to the country which he has adopted , and to which he has trans- ferred the strength of his affections . They speak of the wild Indian , and of the warfare , the sound of which comes some- times to their very ...
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... turn frequently from the world to her society , for happiness and refinement . " pp . 47-49 . " ON DRESS . " Mrs. L. - Do you not think that a husband has reason to complain , if his wife become negligent of her personal appearance ...
... turn frequently from the world to her society , for happiness and refinement . " pp . 47-49 . " ON DRESS . " Mrs. L. - Do you not think that a husband has reason to complain , if his wife become negligent of her personal appearance ...
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... turn'd false ? O no , bright Cherub ! If the joys of life Are link'd with wealth , and Fortune's gifts alone Can make man happy , then thy cup of bliss Is full to overflowing ; and if Care Disdain companionship , except with Age Or dark ...
... turn'd false ? O no , bright Cherub ! If the joys of life Are link'd with wealth , and Fortune's gifts alone Can make man happy , then thy cup of bliss Is full to overflowing ; and if Care Disdain companionship , except with Age Or dark ...
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Page 474 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 474 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 52 - Discourse may want an animated — No, To brush the surface, and to make it flow ; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. The mark, at which my juster aim I take, Is contradiction for its own dear sake.
Page 527 - Extolling patience as the truest fortitude; And to the bearing well of all calamities, All chances incident to man's frail life, Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much persuasion sought, Lenient of grief and anxious thought: But with the...
Page 537 - This, this is he, softly a while, Let us not break in upon him. O change beyond report, thought, or belief!
Page 140 - ... how intense were my sufferings. But the point, the acme of my distress, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate. My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though short existence, in the tyrannic hands of some unfeeling monster. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were neither
Page 139 - Sometimes, for days and days together, I could not go into the prison till after dark, when I had two miles to walk, in returning to the house. O how many, many times...
Page 139 - During these seven months, the continual extortions and oppressions to which your brother, and the other white prisoners were subject, are indescribable. Sometimes sums of money were demanded, sometimes pieces of cloth, and handkerchiefs; at other times, an order would be issued, that the white foreigners should not speak to each other, or have any communication with their friends without. Then, again, the servants were forbidden to carry in their food, without an extra fee.
Page 514 - His talk was like a stream, which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses: It slipped from politics to puns, It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.