The Young Woman's Friend, Or, The Duties, Trials, Loves, and Hopes of WomanWentworth, 1857 - 250 pages |
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... wishes grati- fied , and all her desires met ; she was in the very element which her soul needed , and her fertile imagination could stretch itself to no higher or more ecstatic enjoyment . Her spirit was the swell of a delicious ...
... wishes grati- fied , and all her desires met ; she was in the very element which her soul needed , and her fertile imagination could stretch itself to no higher or more ecstatic enjoyment . Her spirit was the swell of a delicious ...
Page 37
... them in all innocent matters , they will soon appreciate such conduct . If no attention is paid to rational wishes , if no allowance is made ― for youthful spirits , if they are dealt with in JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER . 37.
... them in all innocent matters , they will soon appreciate such conduct . If no attention is paid to rational wishes , if no allowance is made ― for youthful spirits , if they are dealt with in JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER . 37.
Page 61
... wishes , as he reads the Scripture narrative , that they might close together - that those who were united in life might not in death be divided . We have in this account a stern and terrible admonition against parental partiality . It ...
... wishes , as he reads the Scripture narrative , that they might close together - that those who were united in life might not in death be divided . We have in this account a stern and terrible admonition against parental partiality . It ...
Page 72
... wish thee to work for me for nought . What shall thy wages be ? " Now Laban , as the account says , had two daughters , Leah and Rachel . Already an attachment had sprung up between Jacob and the latter of these daughters , and having ...
... wish thee to work for me for nought . What shall thy wages be ? " Now Laban , as the account says , had two daughters , Leah and Rachel . Already an attachment had sprung up between Jacob and the latter of these daughters , and having ...
Page 90
... wish these daughters to go with her ; had they both refused to return to Moab , it would have given her inexpressible joy . But she consulted their pleasure , and not her own , and she was willing to be a childless widow all her days ...
... wish these daughters to go with her ; had they both refused to return to Moab , it would have given her inexpressible joy . But she consulted their pleasure , and not her own , and she was willing to be a childless widow all her days ...
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Page 113 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest 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 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. 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 is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
Page 18 - As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far...
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 19 - Queen of this universe ! do not believe Those rigid threats of death : ye shall not die : How should you?
Page 24 - Man for the field and woman for the hearth : Man for the sword and for the needle she : Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.
Page 151 - Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal : for as his name is, so is he ; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him : but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.