Thoughts on Self-culture Addressed to WomenSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1872 - 379 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 ...
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... hope or with fear , tacitly or avowedly , 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 influence of ...
... hope or with fear , tacitly or avowedly , 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 influence of ...
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... hope that the hard school of the world will teach them ? The greater the develop- ment 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 ...
... hope that the hard school of the world will teach them ? The greater the develop- ment 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 ...
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... hope- lessly to fetter them are in great measure removed , and that the narrowness of the outer existence cannot , in active minds , con- fine the free life of thought and feeling . - But even within the narrow limits of women's ...
... hope- lessly to fetter them are in great measure removed , and that the narrowness of the outer existence cannot , in active minds , con- fine the free life of thought and feeling . - But even within the narrow limits of women's ...
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... hope of happiness is light , are sacrificed in attaining the object . But nothing can justify that morbid impatience on the subject , by which too many parents make their daughters ' home wretched , reflecting on them the disgrace of ...
... hope of happiness is light , are sacrificed in attaining the object . But nothing can justify that morbid impatience on the subject , by which too many parents make their daughters ' home wretched , reflecting on them the disgrace of ...
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