The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, Volume 3David H. Ela, 1843 - Child rearing |
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... looks back upon her life , she feels that it has been one of usefulness . " She has not deemed it woman's part to waste Life in inglorious sloth , to sport a while Amid the flowers , or on the summer waves , Then fleet like the ...
... looks back upon her life , she feels that it has been one of usefulness . " She has not deemed it woman's part to waste Life in inglorious sloth , to sport a while Amid the flowers , or on the summer waves , Then fleet like the ...
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... look upon life as a scene of elevated duty , rather than an opportunity for the indul- gence of vanity and ambition ? Finally , is woman's place among the pomps and pleasures of a fleeting world , and will she forever toss on the frothy ...
... look upon life as a scene of elevated duty , rather than an opportunity for the indul- gence of vanity and ambition ? Finally , is woman's place among the pomps and pleasures of a fleeting world , and will she forever toss on the frothy ...
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... looks with pride ; Where Freedom bears her sign , With Justice by her side . Here do my loved ones dwell , All who to me are dear ; All that of youth can tell , All that can manhood cheer ; All that can gloom dispel , All that deserves ...
... looks with pride ; Where Freedom bears her sign , With Justice by her side . Here do my loved ones dwell , All who to me are dear ; All that of youth can tell , All that can manhood cheer ; All that can gloom dispel , All that deserves ...
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... look better . 2. I can afford it . 3. My husband requires it . To the first it may be answered -- Though in the eyes of the world , and perhaps in their own eyes , it makes them look better , it does not follow that they look better in ...
... look better . 2. I can afford it . 3. My husband requires it . To the first it may be answered -- Though in the eyes of the world , and perhaps in their own eyes , it makes them look better , it does not follow that they look better in ...
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... look at these things dispassionately . Your mother and myself have often spoken , when alone , of Miss B.'s unkind treatment of her mother . We have seen her give her mother glances with her eyes , and make such tart answers , when she ...
... look at these things dispassionately . Your mother and myself have often spoken , when alone , of Miss B.'s unkind treatment of her mother . We have seen her give her mother glances with her eyes , and make such tart answers , when she ...
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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.