CharacterJ. Murray, 1876 - 388 pages |
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... habits - Educa- tion of women - Nations and mothers - True sphere of women— Women and work- " Enfranchisement " of women -Women and the art of preparing food - CHAPTER III . COMPANIONSHIP AND EXAMPLE . -- 31-62 Influence of ...
... habits - Educa- tion of women - Nations and mothers - True sphere of women— Women and work- " Enfranchisement " of women -Women and the art of preparing food - CHAPTER III . COMPANIONSHIP AND EXAMPLE . -- 31-62 Influence of ...
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... habits , and understanding ; and exercises an inevitable influence upon all the acts of our future life . Thus character is undergoing constant change , for better or for worse- either being elevated on the one hand , or degraded on the ...
... habits , and understanding ; and exercises an inevitable influence upon all the acts of our future life . Thus character is undergoing constant change , for better or for worse- either being elevated on the one hand , or degraded on the ...
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... habit , the nation will be ruled honestly and nobly . But where they are corrupt , self - seeking , and dishonest in heart , bound neither by truth nor by law , the rule of rogues and wirepullers becomes inevitable . The only true ...
... habit , the nation will be ruled honestly and nobly . But where they are corrupt , self - seeking , and dishonest in heart , bound neither by truth nor by law , the rule of rogues and wirepullers becomes inevitable . The only true ...
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... habits are formed , the intellect is awakened , and character moulded for good or for evil . From that source , be it pure or impure , issue the principles and maxims that govern society . Law itself is but the reflex of homes . The ...
... habits are formed , the intellect is awakened , and character moulded for good or for evil . From that source , be it pure or impure , issue the principles and maxims that govern society . Law itself is but the reflex of homes . The ...
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... habits — on which so much of the happiness of human beings in after - life depends . Although man is endowed with a certain self - acting , self - helping power of contributing to his own development , independent of surrounding cir ...
... habits — on which so much of the happiness of human beings in after - life depends . Although man is endowed with a certain self - acting , self - helping power of contributing to his own development , independent of surrounding cir ...
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Page 185 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Page 249 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee...
Page 327 - MORTON'S WIFE. He first deceased ; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Page 171 - High-heartedness doth sometimes teach to bow. A noble heart doth teach a virtuous scorn, To scorn to owe a duty overlong ; To scorn to be for benefits forborne, To scorn to lie, to scorn to do a wrong. To scorn to bear an injury in mind, To scorn a free-born heart slave-like to bind.
Page 3 - He bade me act a manly part, though I had ne'er a farthing, O For without an honest manly heart, no man was worth regarding, O. Then out into the world my course I did determine, O Tho...
Page 297 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 187 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another : for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 250 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 250 - tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear...