Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 pages Introduction -- Sphere and duties of woman -- Education of woman -- Moral uses of poetry -- The moral nature of man -- Progress and prospects of society. |
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Page 34
... less labor for one to investigate , select , and condense for the benefit of a multitude , than for each one to go over the same ground . There is no way in which mind can be so easily cul- tivated , and knowledge propagated so fast ...
... less labor for one to investigate , select , and condense for the benefit of a multitude , than for each one to go over the same ground . There is no way in which mind can be so easily cul- tivated , and knowledge propagated so fast ...
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... less so . Not only does their mutual society minister to their happiness , but likewise to their moral improvement , for they are born with a mutual desire to please each other . This is a fact , which I have never seen noticed by any ...
... less so . Not only does their mutual society minister to their happiness , but likewise to their moral improvement , for they are born with a mutual desire to please each other . This is a fact , which I have never seen noticed by any ...
Page 61
... less so is that of sister , considered either with respect to her own , or the other sex . A thousand ties concur to bind sisters together . There is , in the first place , a na- tural affection in the human heart , implanted there to ...
... less so is that of sister , considered either with respect to her own , or the other sex . A thousand ties concur to bind sisters together . There is , in the first place , a na- tural affection in the human heart , implanted there to ...
Page 92
... less topics of business and politics , are under a stronger temptation to busy themselves in what is going on immediately around them . It is not malice . For let that very neighbor , whose character in a thoughtless hour they have ...
... less topics of business and politics , are under a stronger temptation to busy themselves in what is going on immediately around them . It is not malice . For let that very neighbor , whose character in a thoughtless hour they have ...
Page 94
... less essential to her happiness , the power of overlooking in those whom she loves , the most glaring faults and imperfections of character . It is said that woman is irrationally fond of ornament , and is led by that passion into ...
... less essential to her happiness , the power of overlooking in those whom she loves , the most glaring faults and imperfections of character . It is said that woman is irrationally fond of ornament , and is led by that passion into ...
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Page 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 202 - The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth King for ever. "The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
Page 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 191 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Page 190 - Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide: Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some Beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Page 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 184 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While throng'd the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips — »The foe! They come! they come!« And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering...
Page 181 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal ; And the...
Page 190 - All heaven and earth are still— though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Page 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.