The Religious and Political Influence of Educated and Uneducated Females

Portada
J. Howe, 1849 - 288 páginas
 

Páginas seleccionadas

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Pasajes populares

Página 57 - And the SPIRIT and the Bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Página 128 - One shall say, I am the Lord's; And another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; And another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord, And surname himself by the name of Israel.
Página 141 - Of fame; drank early, deeply drank; drank draughts That common millions might have quenched, then died Of thirst, because there was no more to drink.
Página 140 - With terror now he froze the cowering blood, And now dissolved the heart in tenderness ; Yet would not tremble, would not weep himself; But back into his soul retired, alone, Dark, sullen, proud, gazing contemptuously On hearts and passions prostrate at his feet. So ocean from the plains his waves had late To desolation swept, retired in pride, Exulting in the glory of his might, And seemed to mock the ruin he had wrought.
Página 140 - With Nature's self He seemed an old acquaintance, free to jest At will with all her glorious majesty. He laid his hand upon " the Ocean's mane," And played familiar with his hoary locks.
Página 128 - Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Página 139 - And opened new fountains in the human heart. Where Fancy halted, weary in her flight, In other men, his, fresh as morning, rose, And soared untrodden heights, and seemed at home, Where angels bashful looked.
Página 140 - And with the thunder talked, as friend to friend; And wove his garland of the lightning's wing, In sportive twist, the lightning's fiery wing, Which, as the footsteps of the dreadful God, Marching upon the storm in vengeance, seemed ; Then turned, and with the grasshopper, who sung His evening song beneath his feet, conversed.
Página 36 - Women have no business with the texts of the Veda; thus is the law fully settled : having, therefore, no evidence of law, and no knowledge of expiatory texts, sinful women must be as foul as falsehood itself ; and this is a fixed rule.
Página 140 - ... wing, Which, as the footsteps of the dreadful God, Marching upon the storm in vengeance seemed — Then turned, and with the grasshopper, who sung His evening song, beneath his feet, conversed. Suns, moons, and stars, and clouds his sisters were ; Rocks, mountains, meteors, seas, and winds, and storms, His brothers — younger brothers, whom he scarce As equals deemed.

Información bibliográfica