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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... wisdom or moderation on either side . That they ought to aspire to the right of suffrage , cannot , I think , be maintained , but that better provision ought to be made to secure to them their property , I have no doubt . BALTIMORE ...
... wisdom or moderation on either side . That they ought to aspire to the right of suffrage , cannot , I think , be maintained , but that better provision ought to be made to secure to them their property , I have no doubt . BALTIMORE ...
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... wisdom does not lie in the past , and if scholars , instead of consuming their lives in learning by what names the Greeks and Ro- mans called this and that , would go forth into the world and use their own eyes , and ears 2 ...
... wisdom does not lie in the past , and if scholars , instead of consuming their lives in learning by what names the Greeks and Ro- mans called this and that , would go forth into the world and use their own eyes , and ears 2 ...
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... wisdom . The very opposite is the fact . We are the old age and the maturity of the world , rather than the generations that have preceded us . The mature man does not refer to the opinions of his youth with any special reverence ...
... wisdom . The very opposite is the fact . We are the old age and the maturity of the world , rather than the generations that have preceded us . The mature man does not refer to the opinions of his youth with any special reverence ...
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... There is no companionship like that which is created by wisdom and knowledge . In that delightful intercourse , hours are but as minutes , days fly like hours away . These pleasures are in a measure open to all . Once 36 INTRODUCTORY .
... There is no companionship like that which is created by wisdom and knowledge . In that delightful intercourse , hours are but as minutes , days fly like hours away . These pleasures are in a measure open to all . Once 36 INTRODUCTORY .
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... wisdom . The question has been raised , and often discussed , whether the original intellectual endowments of woman are as great , or rather the same as those of man . Both sides of the argument have been defended with equal zeal and ...
... wisdom . The question has been raised , and often discussed , whether the original intellectual endowments of woman are as great , or rather the same as those of man . Both sides of the argument have been defended with equal zeal and ...
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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.