Letters to Young LadiesHarper & Bros., 1839 - 259 pagina's |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
accomplishments affections amid attainment attention beauty benevolence blessed Boccacio brothers cation character charity cheerfulness cher classick comfort conversation Cotton Mather danger daughters dear young friends delight desirable dignity domestick dress duties elegant Elizabeth Carter Epictetus Eternity evil excellent exercise fashion feel female education friendship gather give grace gratitude Greece habit happiness hath heart heaven History honour household important improvement industry influence instruction intel intellectual intercourse John Frost knowledge labour learned lence Lord Bacon Madam de Genlis memory ment mind mother musick nature ness never perseverance Petrarch piety Plato pleasure Plutarch poor possess principle privilege pursuits render sacred says season seems sometimes soul sphere spirit sweet tain talents taste teach teachers things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion tivated trifles vanity virtue well-ordered wisdom woman young lady youth
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Pagina 204 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Pagina 40 - ... eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived.
Pagina 204 - Europe, not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts: but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the...
Pagina 78 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Pagina 39 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Pagina 205 - Few men ever carried out so fully the injunction, not to let the left hand know what the right hand did, in the quiet and steady outflow of good will and good works, as Mr.
Pagina 96 - Wherefore, it is asked, do you spend money for that which is not bread, and labour for that which satisfieth not...
Pagina 207 - For the poor ye have always with you, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good; but me ye have not always.