Girlhood and CharacterAbingdon Press, 1916 - 400 pages |
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... usually you will find at least these certain marked physiological changes of growth and function ; the prominence of three new interests- the girl chum , the boy , and the woman ideal , represent- ing friendship , romance , and hero ...
... usually you will find at least these certain marked physiological changes of growth and function ; the prominence of three new interests- the girl chum , the boy , and the woman ideal , represent- ing friendship , romance , and hero ...
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... Usually , along with the motor discharge there is an accompanying aware- ness of what is happening . The child is " conscious " of it , or " perceives " it . Most things bring a " feeling " along with the perception , and so are at the ...
... Usually , along with the motor discharge there is an accompanying aware- ness of what is happening . The child is " conscious " of it , or " perceives " it . Most things bring a " feeling " along with the perception , and so are at the ...
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... usually fewer forces have acted upon her . But these forces , because they are fewer , have been the more intense in their effect . The result has so accentuated differences in temperament that a prominent educator of girls has said ...
... usually fewer forces have acted upon her . But these forces , because they are fewer , have been the more intense in their effect . The result has so accentuated differences in temperament that a prominent educator of girls has said ...
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... Usually there occurs about the beginning of this period the most rapid growth of the whole body since babyhood . If muscles and bones kept pace with each other , it might not be so disconcerting ; but nature's way is to concentrate ...
... Usually there occurs about the beginning of this period the most rapid growth of the whole body since babyhood . If muscles and bones kept pace with each other , it might not be so disconcerting ; but nature's way is to concentrate ...
Page 82
... usually been found that the threshold of stimulation of many of the senses had been raised so high that cuts which caused profuse bleeding were not felt as painful . A similar raising of the threshold in the brain cells involved in ...
... usually been found that the threshold of stimulation of many of the senses had been raised so high that cuts which caused profuse bleeding were not felt as painful . A similar raising of the threshold in the brain cells involved in ...
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Page 331 - For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, And choose the things that please me, And take hold of my covenant ; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls A place and a name better than of sons and of daughters : I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
Page 366 - And these are they which are sown among thorns ; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Page 357 - When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole, have no need of the physician, but they that are sick : I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Page 357 - I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
Page 357 - And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also : for therefore came I forth.
Page 195 - I brave the condemnation of my own family, club, and "set"; when, as a Protestant, I turn Catholic; as a Catholic, freethinker; as a "regular practitioner," homoeopath, or what not, I am always inwardly strengthened in my course and steeled against the loss of my actual social self by the thought of other and better possible social judges than those whose verdict...
Page 357 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it : but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. 25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away...
Page 381 - Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Page 26 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!
Page 220 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.