Thoughts on Self-culture Addressed to WomenSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1872 - 379 pagine |
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Pagina ii
... less fully on other questions , 100. - Influence of opinion and consequent duty of forming sound opinions , 102.— Christians especially bound to love and seek truth , 102. - Beauty of truth , 103 . PAGE 50 62 80 96 CONTENTS . iii Sect ...
... less fully on other questions , 100. - Influence of opinion and consequent duty of forming sound opinions , 102.— Christians especially bound to love and seek truth , 102. - Beauty of truth , 103 . PAGE 50 62 80 96 CONTENTS . iii Sect ...
Pagina 3
... less as the effect , than as the cause of national corruption . Whenever men sink into mere lovers of pleasure , and creatures of intrigue , they necessarily become the tools of those who can flatter their vanity and play upon their ...
... less as the effect , than as the cause of national corruption . Whenever men sink into mere lovers of pleasure , and creatures of intrigue , they necessarily become the tools of those who can flatter their vanity and play upon their ...
Pagina 7
... less selfish , less frivolous , less worldly ? In this age of boasted enlightenment , are they led to love knowledge for something more than its market value - to feel that expansion of soul that earnest natures feel when some new ...
... less selfish , less frivolous , less worldly ? In this age of boasted enlightenment , are they led to love knowledge for something more than its market value - to feel that expansion of soul that earnest natures feel when some new ...
Pagina 10
... less culti- vated generation . In some respects , also , as we have noticed before , the influence of women is more needed in this age of in- tellectual excitement , but the influence of ignorance will not suffice in such an age . Too ...
... less culti- vated generation . In some respects , also , as we have noticed before , the influence of women is more needed in this age of in- tellectual excitement , but the influence of ignorance will not suffice in such an age . Too ...
Pagina 12
... not what it should be ? The more earnest the lives of men , the less , we repeat , can they be influenced by frivolous women . The only real wonder is , that the moral NOT CONFINED TO FASHIONABLE CIRCLES . 13 results should not.
... not what it should be ? The more earnest the lives of men , the less , we repeat , can they be influenced by frivolous women . The only real wonder is , that the moral NOT CONFINED TO FASHIONABLE CIRCLES . 13 results should not.
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