Model womenHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 353 pages |
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... observation as at least two to one . While Professor Dwight says , 66 women are naturally more religious than men . " On a retrospect of their ministry , we believe most divines will find that they have been doubly useful among the ...
... observation as at least two to one . While Professor Dwight says , 66 women are naturally more religious than men . " On a retrospect of their ministry , we believe most divines will find that they have been doubly useful among the ...
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... observations , conveyed in the most brilliant and inviting style . Her characters are often well drawn , her scenes well painted , and she could be amusing in no ordinary degree when she liked . Although we have no hesitation in ...
... observations , conveyed in the most brilliant and inviting style . Her characters are often well drawn , her scenes well painted , and she could be amusing in no ordinary degree when she liked . Although we have no hesitation in ...
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... in British literature , to those pictures of society and manners , compounded of wit and gaiety , shrewd observations , sarcasm , LITERARY WOMEN . 135 -ANNE GRANT Letter-writers -Biography -Literary career -Character Mrs Grant Page.
... in British literature , to those pictures of society and manners , compounded of wit and gaiety , shrewd observations , sarcasm , LITERARY WOMEN . 135 -ANNE GRANT Letter-writers -Biography -Literary career -Character Mrs Grant Page.
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William Anderson (D.D.). of wit and gaiety , shrewd observations , sarcasm , cen- soriousness , high life , and sparkling language , for which their correspondence is remarkable . We might refer , in proof of our position , to a ...
William Anderson (D.D.). of wit and gaiety , shrewd observations , sarcasm , cen- soriousness , high life , and sparkling language , for which their correspondence is remarkable . We might refer , in proof of our position , to a ...
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... observation , and recollection , much earlier than child- ren usually do . I was not acute , I was not sagacious , but I had an active imagination and uncommon powers of memory . I had no companion ; no one fondled or caressed me , far ...
... observation , and recollection , much earlier than child- ren usually do . I was not acute , I was not sagacious , but I had an active imagination and uncommon powers of memory . I had no companion ; no one fondled or caressed me , far ...
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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.