How to Win: A Book for GirlsFunk & Wagnalls, 1887 - 125 pages |
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... count me in when she made up her jewels . Briefly , public opinion proposes to give you a chance . It proposed to let me shirk for myself . It means to put a shield in your left hand and a sword in your right . It let me go forth , as ...
... count me in when she made up her jewels . Briefly , public opinion proposes to give you a chance . It proposed to let me shirk for myself . It means to put a shield in your left hand and a sword in your right . It let me go forth , as ...
Page 57
... count upon them always . The voice of Miriam still cheers the brave advance , and all along the line we hear the battle - cry : " Speak unto the children of Israel , that they go forward . " CHAPTER V. THE NEW IDEAL OF MANHOOD . 66 LET ...
... count upon them always . The voice of Miriam still cheers the brave advance , and all along the line we hear the battle - cry : " Speak unto the children of Israel , that they go forward . " CHAPTER V. THE NEW IDEAL OF MANHOOD . 66 LET ...
Page 104
... count myself too valuable for the sponge - like use that you would put me to . Nay , I would have our young people reach a higher key than this . Because of life's real story with its mystery and pathos ; because of the romance that ...
... count myself too valuable for the sponge - like use that you would put me to . Nay , I would have our young people reach a higher key than this . Because of life's real story with its mystery and pathos ; because of the romance that ...
Page 108
... counting- room and parlor . They will look best side by side . He has special advantages , amply offset by gifts of ... count of that great casualty , as did an enterprising reporter for the New York press . But peace hath her 108 HOW ...
... counting- room and parlor . They will look best side by side . He has special advantages , amply offset by gifts of ... count of that great casualty , as did an enterprising reporter for the New York press . But peace hath her 108 HOW ...
Page 111
... count the personal acquaintance , and in many instances the friendship , of a majority of these gifted bread - winners . If called upon to name the chief half dozen among them , I should say Grace Greenwood , Gail Hamilton , Mary Mapes ...
... count the personal acquaintance , and in many instances the friendship , of a majority of these gifted bread - winners . If called upon to name the chief half dozen among them , I should say Grace Greenwood , Gail Hamilton , Mary Mapes ...
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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...