Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune, Volumes 1-2Samuel West, 1809 - Women |
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... equal , social , virtuous , and delightful intercourse : I turn with an earnest hope , that women , thus richly endowed with the bounties of Providence , will not content themselves with polishing , when they are able to reform ; with ...
... equal , social , virtuous , and delightful intercourse : I turn with an earnest hope , that women , thus richly endowed with the bounties of Providence , will not content themselves with polishing , when they are able to reform ; with ...
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... equal pains have been taken to promote the same object through the medium of the stage ; and this weapon is , of all others , that against which it is , at the present moment , the most important to warn the more inconsiderate of my ...
... equal pains have been taken to promote the same object through the medium of the stage ; and this weapon is , of all others , that against which it is , at the present moment , the most important to warn the more inconsiderate of my ...
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... equal imminent moment of public danger , has not been nightly indulging in every species of dissipation ? When she is deploring the inconsistency of the hu man heart , while she contrasts Mark Anthony's bravery and contempt of ease at ...
... equal imminent moment of public danger , has not been nightly indulging in every species of dissipation ? When she is deploring the inconsistency of the hu man heart , while she contrasts Mark Anthony's bravery and contempt of ease at ...
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... equal ardour and success , worldly fame and eternal glory , would it not be more honest to tell him fairly and unambiguously that there are two distinct roads between which there is a broad boundary line ? that there are two ...
... equal ardour and success , worldly fame and eternal glory , would it not be more honest to tell him fairly and unambiguously that there are two distinct roads between which there is a broad boundary line ? that there are two ...
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... equal freedom to ransact other books with a view to get helps to em- bellish their little compositions , or rather compilations , they might be tempted to pass off for their own what they pick up from others , which might tend at once ...
... equal freedom to ransact other books with a view to get helps to em- bellish their little compositions , or rather compilations , they might be tempted to pass off for their own what they pick up from others , which might tend at once ...
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Page 89 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Page 77 - ... according to the deeds done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil...
Page 109 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard : I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Page 4 - I would call on them to come forward, and contribute their full and fair proportion towards the saving of their country. But I would call on them to come forward, without departing from the refinement of their character, without derogating from the dignity of their rank, without blemishing the delicacy of their sex : I would call them to the best and most appropriate exertion of their power, to raise the depressed tone of public morals, and to awaken the drowsy spirit of religious principle.
Page 37 - ... is fair, and just, and honourable to effect it ; that they scorn to attain the most desired end by any but the most lawful means. The beauty of simplicity is indeed so intimately felt and generally acknowledged by all who have a true...
Page 100 - ... in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong ; it being all one to go about to draw those men out of their mistakes who have no settled notions, as to dispossess a vagrant of his habitation, who has no settled abode.
Page 50 - Most men are commonly destined to some profession, and their minds are consequently turned each to its respective object. Would it not be strange if they were called out to exercise their profession, or to set up their trade, with only a little general knowledge of the trades and professions of all other men, and without any previous definite application to their own peculiar calling? The profession of ladies, to which the bent of their instruction should be turned, is that of daughters, wives, mothers,...
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Page 88 - What is man that he should be clean, and he that is born of a woman that he should be righteous...
Page 51 - ... and not an artist : it is not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and sing, and draw, and dress, and dance ; it is a being who can comfort and counsel him; one who can reason, and reflect, and feel, and judge, and discourse, and discriminate; one who can assist him in his affairs, lighten his...