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... your age excel In pride of life the ages of your sires , But that you think clear , feel deep , bear fruit well , The friend of man desires . " Matthew Arnold . MODERN FICTION , AND OTHER ESSAYS ON KINDRED SUB- JECTS.
... your age excel In pride of life the ages of your sires , But that you think clear , feel deep , bear fruit well , The friend of man desires . " Matthew Arnold . MODERN FICTION , AND OTHER ESSAYS ON KINDRED SUB- JECTS.
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... , for the welfare of the race as well as for her own happiness . I believe in the sincere desire of the best men to aid her in attaining these ends with less of friction , less of suffering and humiliation than heretofore , a Foreword xiii.
... , for the welfare of the race as well as for her own happiness . I believe in the sincere desire of the best men to aid her in attaining these ends with less of friction , less of suffering and humiliation than heretofore , a Foreword xiii.
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... desires after the higher life ; but can we imagine him choosing the words that came to Dante , when , like Dante , he sought to express the antithesis of the scene he gazed on , * An Address delivered before the Scottish Society of ...
... desires after the higher life ; but can we imagine him choosing the words that came to Dante , when , like Dante , he sought to express the antithesis of the scene he gazed on , * An Address delivered before the Scottish Society of ...
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... desire for truth , and truth only . " Is it only inbred custom that revolts in me " -have we not all said it ? " against this modern tendency to make light of marriage and the family , or is it something higher and better ? " — Yes ...
... desire for truth , and truth only . " Is it only inbred custom that revolts in me " -have we not all said it ? " against this modern tendency to make light of marriage and the family , or is it something higher and better ? " — Yes ...
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... desires to arouse to interest in profound problems by the aid of this vehicle . Especially should one arouse them to such living interest while they are still young and plastic . " It should be noted • с that in the context women are ...
... desires to arouse to interest in profound problems by the aid of this vehicle . Especially should one arouse them to such living interest while they are still young and plastic . " It should be noted • с that in the context women are ...
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Page 66 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 75 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page ix - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 67 - Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
Page 185 - 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 Saviour of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Page 77 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 117 - It was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity.
Page 75 - The whole world was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for woman ; man is the whole world, and the breath of God; woman the rib and crooked piece of man.
Page 87 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!