The Wives of England: Their Relative Duties, Domestic Influence, and Social Obligations |
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Page 24 - You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Page 68 - ... around her, but by no means ceasing there ; for each of her domestics, each of her relatives, and each of her familiar friends, will in their turn become the centre of another circle, from which will radiate good or evil influence, extending onwards, in the same manner, to the end of all things — to the...
Page 13 - It is the privilege of a married woman to be able to show by the most delicate attentions how much she feels her husband's superiority to herself — not by mere personal services . . . but by a respectful deference to his opinion, and a willingly imposed silence when he speaks.
Page 17 - In the case of a highly-gifted woman, even where there is an equal or superior degree of talent possessed by her husband, nothing can be more injudicious, or more fatal to her happiness, than an exhibition even of the least disposition to presume upon such gifts.
Page 4 - We long, and not in vain — for presently the descent takes place ; but is effected by the writer with such admirable gravity of countenance, that the gravity of the reader becomes impossible. Thus we are told that, ' in the character of a noble, enlightened, and truly good man, there is a power and a sublimity so nearly approaching what we believe to be the nature and capacity of angels, that as no feeling can exceed, so no language can describe,