Model womenHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 353 pages |
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... blessing . - Character of Miss Fiske • Page 289 CHAPTER VIII . FORMATION OF FEMALE CHARACTER . Value and influence of character . - Original constitution.— Family circle . - Society . - Impartative and receptive elements . - Twofold ...
... blessing . - Character of Miss Fiske • Page 289 CHAPTER VIII . FORMATION OF FEMALE CHARACTER . Value and influence of character . - Original constitution.— Family circle . - Society . - Impartative and receptive elements . - Twofold ...
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... blessing might be much more common . The principal components of the body will naturally indicate and classify the topics for discussion in deal- ing with the subject of physical education . The body may be roughly described as an ...
... blessing might be much more common . The principal components of the body will naturally indicate and classify the topics for discussion in deal- ing with the subject of physical education . The body may be roughly described as an ...
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... unveilers of nature . " Blessings be on them , and eternal praise , The poets who , on earth , have made us heirs Of truth , and pure delight , by heavenly lays . " But for them , nature , aye and humanity too 12 MODEL WOMEN .
... unveilers of nature . " Blessings be on them , and eternal praise , The poets who , on earth , have made us heirs Of truth , and pure delight , by heavenly lays . " But for them , nature , aye and humanity too 12 MODEL WOMEN .
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... blessed . All infidel philosophy is wrecked here . It does not understand , and consequently cannot explain , your relations to the Invisible , and your capacities for a blessed immortality . It can mark the contrasts in your character ...
... blessed . All infidel philosophy is wrecked here . It does not understand , and consequently cannot explain , your relations to the Invisible , and your capacities for a blessed immortality . It can mark the contrasts in your character ...
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... blessing , He made instrumental to its increase . For the higher attain- ments of faith , trials are not only useful , but indis- pensable . The martyrs reached their great faith by great tribulation . Thus we see powerful reasons why ...
... blessing , He made instrumental to its increase . For the higher attain- ments of faith , trials are not only useful , but indis- pensable . The martyrs reached their great faith by great tribulation . Thus we see powerful reasons why ...
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Page 287 - If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit ; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you : continue ye in my love.
Page 316 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children : That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 19 - Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice ; The confidence of reason give ; And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live ! 1805.
Page 44 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 185 - Not there, not there, my child." " Is it where the feathery palm-trees rise, And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? Or 'midst the green islands of glittering seas. Where fragrant forests perfume the breeze, And strange bright birds, on their starry wings, Bear the rich hues of all glorious things ! " "Not there, not there, ray child.
Page 186 - THE stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 289 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 186 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 39 - 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 203 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell), what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy; she answered, 'Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.