How to Win: A Book for GirlsFunk & Wagnalls, 1887 - 125 pages |
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... character and work . Would that the generous impulse of your enthusiasm , guided by your broader opportunity , might " Give me back the wild pulsation That I felt before the strife , When I heard my days before me , And the tumult of my ...
... character and work . Would that the generous impulse of your enthusiasm , guided by your broader opportunity , might " Give me back the wild pulsation That I felt before the strife , When I heard my days before me , And the tumult of my ...
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... character clustered a thousand new resolves . I was never quite so steeped in reveries again , though my temptations were unusual ; my " Forest Home , " by a Wisconsin river , offering few reminders to my girlish thought , of the wide ...
... character clustered a thousand new resolves . I was never quite so steeped in reveries again , though my temptations were unusual ; my " Forest Home , " by a Wisconsin river , offering few reminders to my girlish thought , of the wide ...
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... character . But the virtues of one age often become the mistakes of the next . When loom , needle and broom were woman's only weapons , she did well to handle them deftly , no matter what her rank , for they were her bread - winning ...
... character . But the virtues of one age often become the mistakes of the next . When loom , needle and broom were woman's only weapons , she did well to handle them deftly , no matter what her rank , for they were her bread - winning ...
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... characters of history have done this , always . Losing their lives in those of other men , they have found them on the crest of the world's gratitude and fame . What they have done on a grand scale , we , from identical motives , may do ...
... characters of history have done this , always . Losing their lives in those of other men , they have found them on the crest of the world's gratitude and fame . What they have done on a grand scale , we , from identical motives , may do ...
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... character , the cloud that early dimmed , for Stuart Mill , the Star of Bethlehem , I will not , as a woman , with- hold from his splendid memory the tribute of my humble gratitude . But while I speak of all these lives , shining like ...
... character , the cloud that early dimmed , for Stuart Mill , the Star of Bethlehem , I will not , as a woman , with- hold from his splendid memory the tribute of my humble gratitude . But while I speak of all these lives , shining like ...
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Page 63 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 96 - Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 95 - For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn : but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
Page 94 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
Page 66 - ... present artificial environment and estimate of their own value ; but the elevation of their sisters to the plane of perfect financial and legal independence, from which the girls can dictate the equitable terms, " You must be as pure and true as you require me to be, ere I give you my hand...
Page 51 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind : Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more: And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
Page 65 - For it is an immense temptation to the "sowing of wild oats," when the average youth knows that the smiles he covets most will be his all the same, no matter whether he smokes, swears, drinks beer and leads an impure life, or not. The knowledge on his part...
Page 73 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father.
Page 21 - Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn...