The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, Volume 3David H. Ela, 1843 - Child rearing |
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... human nature requisite for its discreet exercise , too indolent to improve , and too proud to discharge their responsible duties , will be driven to seek subsistence elsewhere ! 18 THE MAID'S DILEMMA . [ Written for the Young 2 *
... human nature requisite for its discreet exercise , too indolent to improve , and too proud to discharge their responsible duties , will be driven to seek subsistence elsewhere ! 18 THE MAID'S DILEMMA . [ Written for the Young 2 *
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... human family during my long life . One misstep taken now may ruin your prospect of happiness for this life , or so mar it as to render life almost undesirable . Many young men have made shipwreck of their peace by unadvisedly and ...
... human family during my long life . One misstep taken now may ruin your prospect of happiness for this life , or so mar it as to render life almost undesirable . Many young men have made shipwreck of their peace by unadvisedly and ...
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... human ties . The friends , the loved ones of our youth , They , too , are gone , or changed , Or , worse than all , their love and truth Are darkened or estranged . They meet us in the glittering throng , With cold , averted eyes , And ...
... human ties . The friends , the loved ones of our youth , They , too , are gone , or changed , Or , worse than all , their love and truth Are darkened or estranged . They meet us in the glittering throng , With cold , averted eyes , And ...
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... human heart , and which is never more susceptible than in childhood . If this principle is properly cherished , and a right direction given to it , we may make it a powerful auxiliary to parental authority . But parents are liable , by ...
... human heart , and which is never more susceptible than in childhood . If this principle is properly cherished , and a right direction given to it , we may make it a powerful auxiliary to parental authority . But parents are liable , by ...
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... human complaints is - parents groaning under the vices of their children ! This is all the effect of parental influence . - Cecil . HUSBANDS AND WIVES , you have no right to expect perfection in each other . To err , is the lot of humanity ...
... human complaints is - parents groaning under the vices of their children ! This is all the effect of parental influence . - Cecil . HUSBANDS AND WIVES , you have no right to expect perfection in each other . To err , is the lot of humanity ...
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Page 136 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care : Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 20 - Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house; So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty : for he is thy Lord ; and worship thou him.
Page 21 - How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps The disembodied spirits of the dead, When all of thee that time could wither sleeps And perishes among the dust we tread? For I shall feel the sting of ceaseless pain If there I meet thy gentle presence not ; Nor hear the voice I love, nor read again In thy serenest eyes the tender thought.
Page 268 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Page 135 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear. My Mary, dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest ? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast ? Vol.
Page 136 - That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? See'st thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? That sacred hour can I forget, Can I forget the hallowed grove, Where by the winding Ayr we met, To live one day of parting love!
Page 172 - How sweet, at set of sun, to view Thy golden mirror spreading wide, And see the mist of mantling blue Float round the distant...
Page 134 - Highlands, to arrange matters among her friends for our projected change of life.
Page 124 - How fine has the day been, how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run, Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there...
Page 124 - And travels his heavenly way : But when he comes nearer to finish his race, Like a fine setting sun he looks richer in grace, And gives a sure hope at the end of his days Of rising in brighter array.