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... DUTIES . BY ELIZABETH STRUTT , AUTHOR OF " 9 " THE BOOK OF THE FATHERS , 66 YOUNG CHRISTIAN'S COMPANION , " - 66 " SIX 66 PRACTICAL WISDOM , " TRIUMPHS OF TALENT , " - WEEKS ON THE LOIRE , " - " DOMESTIC RESIDENCE IN SWITZERLAND ...
... DUTIES . BY ELIZABETH STRUTT , AUTHOR OF " 9 " THE BOOK OF THE FATHERS , 66 YOUNG CHRISTIAN'S COMPANION , " - 66 " SIX 66 PRACTICAL WISDOM , " TRIUMPHS OF TALENT , " - WEEKS ON THE LOIRE , " - " DOMESTIC RESIDENCE IN SWITZERLAND ...
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... duties of both sexes greatly depends . The error that has hitherto attended the enquiry , seems to have been more in terms than in arguments . The proposition itself , as it appears to us , stands simply thus : - FIRST . Is Woman equal ...
... duties of both sexes greatly depends . The error that has hitherto attended the enquiry , seems to have been more in terms than in arguments . The proposition itself , as it appears to us , stands simply thus : - FIRST . Is Woman equal ...
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... duties , and with man completing the circle of humanity . " Homer affords us a pretty instance of this feminine quickness of perception in his account of the eagle , with " a milk white fowl , " in his talons , appearing to Menelaus ...
... duties , and with man completing the circle of humanity . " Homer affords us a pretty instance of this feminine quickness of perception in his account of the eagle , with " a milk white fowl , " in his talons , appearing to Menelaus ...
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... duties and offices proper to man , which principally take him abroad , and duties and offices proper to woman , which principally keep her at home , is indeed a truth so evident that they must be very visionary theorists , who can main ...
... duties and offices proper to man , which principally take him abroad , and duties and offices proper to woman , which principally keep her at home , is indeed a truth so evident that they must be very visionary theorists , who can main ...
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Elizabeth Strutt. dom , understanding , thought , firmness , decision . In the duties proper to woman , the primary agents are love , patience , consideration , self - denial : hence it is plain that the duties of each are diverse and se ...
Elizabeth Strutt. dom , understanding , thought , firmness , decision . In the duties proper to woman , the primary agents are love , patience , consideration , self - denial : hence it is plain that the duties of each are diverse and se ...
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Page 213 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more; My Mary! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary!
Page 191 - Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face.
Page 20 - Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
Page 4 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof...
Page 5 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 203 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment : for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 50 - Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 7 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field...
Page 114 - But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Page 33 - And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him and said, this is one of the Hebrews