Letters to MothersHarper, 1845 - Всего страниц: 297 |
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Lydia Howard Sigourney. LETTER II . INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN UPON PARENTS . We speak of educating our children . Do we know that our children also educate us ? " How much tenderness , how much generosity , " says a fine writer , " springs ...
Lydia Howard Sigourney. LETTER II . INFLUENCE OF CHILDREN UPON PARENTS . We speak of educating our children . Do we know that our children also educate us ? " How much tenderness , how much generosity , " says a fine writer , " springs ...
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... speaking through the sparkling eye , or dissolving there in tears ; such a form as the art of man has never equalled ; and such a union of matter with mind , as his highest reason fails to comprehend . You embrace a being , whose ...
... speaking through the sparkling eye , or dissolving there in tears ; such a form as the art of man has never equalled ; and such a union of matter with mind , as his highest reason fails to comprehend . You embrace a being , whose ...
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... speak to you freely of its faults . Explain to it , that it is an erring being , that your discipline is intended to make it better , more acceptable to God , happier when it grows up , and in the life to come . Assure it , that you ...
... speak to you freely of its faults . Explain to it , that it is an erring being , that your discipline is intended to make it better , more acceptable to God , happier when it grows up , and in the life to come . Assure it , that you ...
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... speak no words that will unnecessarily give pain , are usually the most ready to acknowledge , that it is the fruit of education , or example , more than of any inherent sympa- thy , or native tenderness for their fellow - creatures ...
... speak no words that will unnecessarily give pain , are usually the most ready to acknowledge , that it is the fruit of education , or example , more than of any inherent sympa- thy , or native tenderness for their fellow - creatures ...
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... speak the truth . We throw their little minds into a ferment of doubt , to discover what is truth , and what is politeness , and to draw that line which no casuist has yet ever drawn . And ere we are aware , the fresh integrity of the ...
... speak the truth . We throw their little minds into a ferment of doubt , to discover what is truth , and what is politeness , and to draw that line which no casuist has yet ever drawn . And ere we are aware , the fresh integrity of the ...
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Стр. 66 - For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Стр. 232 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I ant the Lord.
Стр. 251 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Стр. 196 - Her cares," says her biographer, " extended .even to the animal creation ; while over her domestics she presided with the dispositions of a parent, providing for the improvement of their minds, the decency of their behaviour, and the propriety of their manners. She would have the skill and contrivance of every artificer used in her house, employed for the ease of her servants, and that they might suffer no inconvenience or hardship. Besides providing for the order, harmony, and peace of her family,...
Стр. 168 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Стр. 251 - I am come amongst you as you see at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Стр. 293 - nay, it is my Saviour's shine. Now farewell world; welcome heaven. The day-star from on high hath visited my heart. Oh speak it when I am gone, and preach it at my funeral; God dealeth familiarly with man. I feel his mercy ; I see his majesty ; whether in the body, or out of the body I cannot tell, God knoweth ; but I see things that are unutterable.
Стр. 180 - Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.
Стр. 61 - Our time is like our money. When we change a guinea, the shillings escape as things of small account ; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eye.