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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... whole mystery of the union ; and it is much easier to comprehend than it is to over- strain and keep up the mind to that high stretch of imaginary feelings with which the union at first commences . If you wish to obtain from this ...
... whole mystery of the union ; and it is much easier to comprehend than it is to over- strain and keep up the mind to that high stretch of imaginary feelings with which the union at first commences . If you wish to obtain from this ...
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... not engaged . All conjugal felicity is built on this founda- tion ; and if it is not your own fault , you may rear a superstructure upon it which will last the whole of your life . Although there should not be 20 YOUNG HUSBAND'S BOOK .
... not engaged . All conjugal felicity is built on this founda- tion ; and if it is not your own fault , you may rear a superstructure upon it which will last the whole of your life . Although there should not be 20 YOUNG HUSBAND'S BOOK .
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... whole of your life . Although there should not be that ardent and enthusiastic love which poets so fervently describe previous to mar- riage , or for a short time after the union has taken place , yet you may be assured , a man would ...
... whole of your life . Although there should not be that ardent and enthusiastic love which poets so fervently describe previous to mar- riage , or for a short time after the union has taken place , yet you may be assured , a man would ...
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... whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures ; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole ...
... whole life is a history of the affections . The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures ; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole ...
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... whole course of our married life . If the time of return was contin- gent , I never failed to keep her informed from day to day if the time was fixed , or when it became fixed , my arrival was as sure as my life . Going from London to ...
... whole course of our married life . If the time of return was contin- gent , I never failed to keep her informed from day to day if the time was fixed , or when it became fixed , my arrival was as sure as my life . Going from London to ...
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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.