Thoughts on Self-culture, Addressed to WomenWm. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1851 - 464 pagine |
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... hope has been to do good in their own generation ; to add their mite to the great treasury of human knowledge and improvement . This hope has beguiled many hours of toil , it has cheered them on to the completion of their task , through ...
... hope has been to do good in their own generation ; to add their mite to the great treasury of human knowledge and improvement . This hope has beguiled many hours of toil , it has cheered them on to the completion of their task , through ...
Pagina 1
... hope or with fear , tacitly or avow- edly , acknowledge the vital consequence of the position she occupies . An able writer of our own day has spent much research in tracing through the various phases of human society the influ- ence of ...
... hope or with fear , tacitly or avow- edly , acknowledge the vital consequence of the position she occupies . An able writer of our own day has spent much research in tracing through the various phases of human society the influ- ence of ...
Pagina 8
... hope that the hard school of the world will teach them ? The greater the development of intellect in any age , the greater the need of moral power in education to give it a right direction . Woe at such a time to the country that trusts ...
... hope that the hard school of the world will teach them ? The greater the development of intellect in any age , the greater the need of moral power in education to give it a right direction . Woe at such a time to the country that trusts ...
Pagina 20
... hope of hap- piness is light , are sacrificed in attaining the object . But noth- ing can justify that morbid impatience on the subject , by which too many parents make their daughters ' home wretched , reflect- ing on them the disgrace ...
... hope of hap- piness is light , are sacrificed in attaining the object . But noth- ing can justify that morbid impatience on the subject , by which too many parents make their daughters ' home wretched , reflect- ing on them the disgrace ...
Pagina 23
... hope of a higher existence hereafter . Whatever belongs to mere earthly relations must be earthly and transitory like them , and be regulated by the conditions of our mortal life ; but what belongs to the spirit— its powers , its ...
... hope of a higher existence hereafter . Whatever belongs to mere earthly relations must be earthly and transitory like them , and be regulated by the conditions of our mortal life ; but what belongs to the spirit— its powers , its ...
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