Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 من الصفحات Introduction -- Sphere and duties of woman -- Education of woman -- Moral uses of poetry -- The moral nature of man -- Progress and prospects of society. |
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... soul than the ac- quisition of knowledge , the discovery of truth , the consciousness that it has a clearer and more satisfactory view of any subject than it once had . It feels ennobled , elevated in the scale of intellectual beings ...
... soul than the ac- quisition of knowledge , the discovery of truth , the consciousness that it has a clearer and more satisfactory view of any subject than it once had . It feels ennobled , elevated in the scale of intellectual beings ...
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... soul from one of its chief dangers , that of dependence upon coarse and animal gratifications . The cultivated mind can never feel the burden of solitude , nor can it be overwhelmed in a crowd . Among the multitude its powers of ...
... soul from one of its chief dangers , that of dependence upon coarse and animal gratifications . The cultivated mind can never feel the burden of solitude , nor can it be overwhelmed in a crowd . Among the multitude its powers of ...
الصفحة 36
... soul , freed from every tie , seems even now an inhabitant of eternity and immensity . It feels with the poet that , " Night is the time to think , — When from the eye the soul Takes flight , and on the utmost brink Of yonder starry ...
... soul , freed from every tie , seems even now an inhabitant of eternity and immensity . It feels with the poet that , " Night is the time to think , — When from the eye the soul Takes flight , and on the utmost brink Of yonder starry ...
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... soul . We call upon the ministers of religion . Every thing which spreads abroad light and intelligence is congenial with their great purpose of enlightening and reforming the world . Christianity , kept back from mankind through four ...
... soul . We call upon the ministers of religion . Every thing which spreads abroad light and intelligence is congenial with their great purpose of enlightening and reforming the world . Christianity , kept back from mankind through four ...
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... souls come from God and are made for immortality . The distinction of the sexes is intended for this world alone , a point only in the infinite line of the soul's existence . It does not seem probable that the Deity would make a dif ...
... souls come from God and are made for immortality . The distinction of the sexes is intended for this world alone , a point only in the infinite line of the soul's existence . It does not seem probable that the Deity would make a dif ...
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الصفحة 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
الصفحة 202 - The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. "The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
الصفحة 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
الصفحة 191 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
الصفحة 190 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
الصفحة 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
الصفحة 184 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
الصفحة 181 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the...
الصفحة 190 - All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
الصفحة 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.