Model womenHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 353 pages |
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... girls as well as boys should be taught the importance of vigorous exertion . But at all periods of life exercise is in- dispensable to health . Indolence destroys the very capacity of enjoyment ; whereas labour puts the body in tone . A ...
... girls as well as boys should be taught the importance of vigorous exertion . But at all periods of life exercise is in- dispensable to health . Indolence destroys the very capacity of enjoyment ; whereas labour puts the body in tone . A ...
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William Anderson (D.D.). Looking one day at the Irish girls , and noticing their healthy robust appearance , I determined to make a new trial , and see if I could not bring the roses to my cheeks , and rid myself of the dreadful ...
William Anderson (D.D.). Looking one day at the Irish girls , and noticing their healthy robust appearance , I determined to make a new trial , and see if I could not bring the roses to my cheeks , and rid myself of the dreadful ...
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... girl had been employed as a labourer at the works for about ten months , and though working alongside of about one hundred and fifty men , she was never suspected to be a woman until one of her fellow - workmen read to her the account ...
... girl had been employed as a labourer at the works for about ten months , and though working alongside of about one hundred and fifty men , she was never suspected to be a woman until one of her fellow - workmen read to her the account ...
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... applicable to such a noble girl are the lines of Cowper : - " She holds no parley with unmanly fears : Where duty bids , she confidently steers ; Faces a thousand dangers at its call , And trusting PECULIARITIES OF FEMALE CHARACTER . 45.
... applicable to such a noble girl are the lines of Cowper : - " She holds no parley with unmanly fears : Where duty bids , she confidently steers ; Faces a thousand dangers at its call , And trusting PECULIARITIES OF FEMALE CHARACTER . 45.
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... girl might escape . " If , " said he , " you can declare that Isabel made the slightest preparation for her expected babe , or that she informed you by the merest chance word of the circumstances in which she was placed , such a ...
... girl might escape . " If , " said he , " you can declare that Isabel made the slightest preparation for her expected babe , or that she informed you by the merest chance word of the circumstances in which she was placed , such a ...
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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.