How to Win: A Book for GirlsFunk & Wagnalls, 1887 - 125 pages |
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... turn their white faces skyward and mildly wonder what that graceful creature is up yonder ? " Girls remind me , too , of the reply given by a bright young friend of mine to the solemn exhortation that she should " make the most of life ...
... turn their white faces skyward and mildly wonder what that graceful creature is up yonder ? " Girls remind me , too , of the reply given by a bright young friend of mine to the solemn exhortation that she should " make the most of life ...
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... turn up . ' " " But I learned early to distrust a Mentor who took so little cognizance of the imperious ardor of my youth ; who was so stupidly oblivious of the varied possibilities in brain and hand and heart , and so I began early to ...
... turn up . ' " " But I learned early to distrust a Mentor who took so little cognizance of the imperious ardor of my youth ; who was so stupidly oblivious of the varied possibilities in brain and hand and heart , and so I began early to ...
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... turn , if my old friend had studied history with reference to the principle that , as a rule , human beings do not rise above the standard implied in society's general estimate of the class to which they be- long . Take the nations of ...
... turn , if my old friend had studied history with reference to the principle that , as a rule , human beings do not rise above the standard implied in society's general estimate of the class to which they be- long . Take the nations of ...
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... turn our gaze inward , those of us who are not thoroughgoing workers with brain or hand . What do we find ? A mild chaos ; a glimmering nebula of fancies ; an insipid brain - soup where a few lumps of thought swim in a watery gravy of ...
... turn our gaze inward , those of us who are not thoroughgoing workers with brain or hand . What do we find ? A mild chaos ; a glimmering nebula of fancies ; an insipid brain - soup where a few lumps of thought swim in a watery gravy of ...
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... turn of mind , I made an application of which the preacher , perhaps , had no intention . I thought , why not in every - day affairs as well as in religion do one thing well , rather than many things indifferently , and in that way ...
... turn of mind , I made an application of which the preacher , perhaps , had no intention . I thought , why not in every - day affairs as well as in religion do one thing well , rather than many things indifferently , and in that way ...
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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...