The Young Husband's Book: A Manual of the Duties, Moral, Religious, and Domestic, Imposed by the Relations of Married Life |
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... ment which is best calculated to ensure the continued affection and respect of the wife , and render a man's HOME a haven of rest and refreshment from the weary cares and troubles of this world , and a habitation of those virtues and ...
... ment which is best calculated to ensure the continued affection and respect of the wife , and render a man's HOME a haven of rest and refreshment from the weary cares and troubles of this world , and a habitation of those virtues and ...
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... ment ; and proper conduct on your part will secure these from the woman of your choice . It is too common to see a man of great and shining abilities selecting his friends , both male and female , from those only who pretend to admire ...
... ment ; and proper conduct on your part will secure these from the woman of your choice . It is too common to see a man of great and shining abilities selecting his friends , both male and female , from those only who pretend to admire ...
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... ment it , being interpreted , means , that so free are the parties from a liability to suspicion , so innately virtuous and pure are they , that each man can safely trust his wife with another man , and each woman her husband with ...
... ment it , being interpreted , means , that so free are the parties from a liability to suspicion , so innately virtuous and pure are they , that each man can safely trust his wife with another man , and each woman her husband with ...
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... ment , the reproach of making the world mi- serable has been always thrown upon the women , and the grave and the merry have equally thought themselves at liberty to con- clude either with declamatory complaints , or satirical censures ...
... ment , the reproach of making the world mi- serable has been always thrown upon the women , and the grave and the merry have equally thought themselves at liberty to con- clude either with declamatory complaints , or satirical censures ...
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... ment in things which he had leisure to consider gradually before he determined them . When- ever we met at a tavern , it was his province to settle the scheme of our entertainment , con- tract with the cook , and inform us when we had ...
... ment in things which he had leisure to consider gradually before he determined them . When- ever we met at a tavern , it was his province to settle the scheme of our entertainment , con- tract with the cook , and inform us when we had ...
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Page 213 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
Page 248 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, Lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Page 246 - If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
Page 179 - 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.
Page 151 - Truth, goodness, honour, harmony, and love, The richest bounty of indulgent Heaven. Meantime a smiling offspring rises round, And mingles both their graces. By degrees, The human blossom blows ; and every day, •Soft as it rolls along, shows some new charm — The father's lustre, and the mother's bloom.
Page 29 - ... until her enfeebled frame sinks under the slightest external injury. Look for her, after a little while, and you find friendship weeping over her untimely grave, and wondering that one, who but lately glowed with all the radiance of health and beauty, should so speedily be brought down to "darkness and the worm.
Page 211 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord ; for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church, and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore, as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be subject to their own husbands in everything.
Page 254 - MY dear Redeemer and my Lord, I read my duty in thy word ; But in thy life the law appears Drawn out in living characters. 2 Such was thy truth, and such thy zeal, Such deference to thy Father's will, Such love, and meekness so divine, I would transcribe and make them mine.
Page 29 - She is like some tender tree, the pride and beauty of the grove ; graceful in its form, bright in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its heart. We find it suddenly withering, when it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We see it drooping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf; until, wasted and perished away, it falls even in the stillness of the forest; and as we muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain to...
Page 108 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.