Willing hearts and ready hands; or, The labours and triumphs of earnest women1869 |
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... I have learned from infancy to respect and love the Constitution of my country . " Had it been otherwise , we should not now probably have the opportunity of boasting of a sovereign - the best , 66 IN MATERNAL SOLICITUDE .
... I have learned from infancy to respect and love the Constitution of my country . " Had it been otherwise , we should not now probably have the opportunity of boasting of a sovereign - the best , 66 IN MATERNAL SOLICITUDE .
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... learned divine being the last , was an eminently pious woman , and taught her son the Bible histories , by the help of some Dutch tiles which ornamented the chimney of their sitting - room , before he could read . This happy ...
... learned divine being the last , was an eminently pious woman , and taught her son the Bible histories , by the help of some Dutch tiles which ornamented the chimney of their sitting - room , before he could read . This happy ...
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... learned to love , almost to idolize her . When the epidemic had partially subsided , Mary visited her relations ' friends in Cumberland ; but be- fore leaving Osmotherly , she made provision for the remaining orphan , settled her ...
... learned to love , almost to idolize her . When the epidemic had partially subsided , Mary visited her relations ' friends in Cumberland ; but be- fore leaving Osmotherly , she made provision for the remaining orphan , settled her ...
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... learned labours of industrious females , amongst which may be named Lady Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's " Apology for the Church of England " from the Latin , Miss Elstob's and Miss Gurney's translations from the Anglo - Saxon ...
... learned labours of industrious females , amongst which may be named Lady Bacon's translation of Bishop Jewel's " Apology for the Church of England " from the Latin , Miss Elstob's and Miss Gurney's translations from the Anglo - Saxon ...
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... learned to suit her occupations to every gradation of the mea- sure of capacity she possessed . I never , " she said , " afford a moment of a healthy day to transcribe , or put stops , or cross t's , or dot my is ; so that I find the ...
... learned to suit her occupations to every gradation of the mea- sure of capacity she possessed . I never , " she said , " afford a moment of a healthy day to transcribe , or put stops , or cross t's , or dot my is ; so that I find the ...
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Page 90 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 285 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 12 - Short-lived possession! but the record fair That memory keeps, of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced. Thy nightly visits to my chamber made, That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid...
Page 91 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Page 92 - Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 13 - CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Page 80 - Sooner the sun from his bright sphere shall sink, Than we, ungrateful, leave thee in that day, To pine in solitude thy life away, Or shun thee, tottering on the grave's cold brink. Banish the thought ! — where'er our steps may roam, O'er smiling plains, or wastes without a tree...
Page 70 - Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.
Page 148 - Papa, I've been writing a book. Have you, my dear? Yes, and I want you to read it. I am afraid it will try my eyes too much. But it is not in manuscript: it is printed. My dear! you've never thought of the expense it will be! It will be almost sure to be a loss, for how can you get a book sold? No one knows you or your name.
Page 82 - Simon ! Simon ! Satan hath desired to have thee that he may sift thee as wheat, but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not...