The Young Woman's Friend, Or, The Duties, Trials, Loves, and Hopes of WomanWentworth, 1857 - 250 pages |
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... head at night , forming such a pavilion as never sheltered any human being before or since . But they were celestial spirits , and the heart of Adam yearned for a fellow of his own nature , like himself , man , and subject to human ...
... head at night , forming such a pavilion as never sheltered any human being before or since . But they were celestial spirits , and the heart of Adam yearned for a fellow of his own nature , like himself , man , and subject to human ...
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... head or foot , that " Adam might be taught the equality , not the superiority or inferiority , of his wife . The surprise of Adam when he awoke must have been great , to have found Eve gazing upon him , watching his slumbers , and ...
... head or foot , that " Adam might be taught the equality , not the superiority or inferiority , of his wife . The surprise of Adam when he awoke must have been great , to have found Eve gazing upon him , watching his slumbers , and ...
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... head , his charming eye , are all beau- tiful ; and we can account for the enmity which exists on the part of our race towards the ser- pent only on the ground of the natural aversion which God has made to exist between the seed of the ...
... head , his charming eye , are all beau- tiful ; and we can account for the enmity which exists on the part of our race towards the ser- pent only on the ground of the natural aversion which God has made to exist between the seed of the ...
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... head of the race , it is proper that she should be its representative . The purpose for which she was created is the main purpose for which every woman was created ; and when we discover why Eve was given to man , we can detect the ...
... head of the race , it is proper that she should be its representative . The purpose for which she was created is the main purpose for which every woman was created ; and when we discover why Eve was given to man , we can detect the ...
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... head , while her husband looks on unconcerned ; and while she toils , he smokes , enjoys himself , de- pending on her for his support . This is an entire disarrangement of the whole order of nature , an entire perversion of the whole ...
... head , while her husband looks on unconcerned ; and while she toils , he smokes , enjoys himself , de- pending on her for his support . This is an entire disarrangement of the whole order of nature , an entire perversion of the whole ...
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Abigail Abraham adorn altar beautiful behold blessing Boaz bosom bound called cast character child Christ Christian countenance daugh daughter death deeds Delilah drunkard drunkard's wife duty earth Esau father feelings female Florence Nightingale flowers friends girl give grace grief Hagar hand happy hath heard heart heaven holy hope husband influence intemperance Isaac Jacob Jephthah John Bunyan Laban lady LAURA GREENWOOD live look Lord marriage married mind Moab moral Nabal Nahor Naomi ness never night noble Orpah parents person Philistines piety pleasure poor prayer Queen of Sheba Rachel REBECCA EATON Rebekah religion religious Roselle Ruth Samson Sarai says sisters of charity society sorrow soul speak spirit tears tender thee thing thou Timnath tion told took true unto VALLEY OF SOREK virtues voice weep wives woman women words young youth
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Page 113 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
Page 147 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE, AND LIVE.
Page 230 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 19 - Queen of this universe ! do not believe Those rigid threats of death : ye shall not die : How should you?
Page 68 - 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 91 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 108 - For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him : therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Page 47 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 183 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Page 71 - And thither were all the flocks gathered : and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. 4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye ? And they said, Of Haran are we. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban, the son of Nahor ? And they said, We know him. And he said unto them, Is he well ? And they said, He i» well : and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.