A legacy of affection, advice, and instruction, from a retired governess, to the present pupils of an establishment for female education1827 |
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... never regarded you with selfish considera- tions , but have felt for you as a parent , and loved you as my own offspring . Those , therefore , who have genuine sympathy can alone judge of the pangs which attended our separation , and ...
... never regarded you with selfish considera- tions , but have felt for you as a parent , and loved you as my own offspring . Those , therefore , who have genuine sympathy can alone judge of the pangs which attended our separation , and ...
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... never the slave of system . I did not persevere in practices because they were old , but gave the world credit for all its improve- ments . It is true , I often imposed on myself much trouble , and frequently had to unlearn and to con ...
... never the slave of system . I did not persevere in practices because they were old , but gave the world credit for all its improve- ments . It is true , I often imposed on myself much trouble , and frequently had to unlearn and to con ...
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... never regard it as irksome , but as the means of future prosperity . Habit deprives restraint of its severity . What we do daily we at length perform with pleasure , and forbearance becomes even a greater punish- ment than oft recurring ...
... never regard it as irksome , but as the means of future prosperity . Habit deprives restraint of its severity . What we do daily we at length perform with pleasure , and forbearance becomes even a greater punish- ment than oft recurring ...
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... never knew an unhappy child a happy woman . The same causes operate in one sphere as in the other . Some bad passion , some obliquity of temper , some error of the understanding , some foible , or some weak- ness , either of which ought ...
... never knew an unhappy child a happy woman . The same causes operate in one sphere as in the other . Some bad passion , some obliquity of temper , some error of the understanding , some foible , or some weak- ness , either of which ought ...
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... never acquire . On so contemptible a weakness as telling false- hoods , I forbear to dwell . It is the lowest resort of the feeblest minds . It is the first step , too , in the ladder of crime . She who ascends this step is in danger of ...
... never acquire . On so contemptible a weakness as telling false- hoods , I forbear to dwell . It is the lowest resort of the feeblest minds . It is the first step , too , in the ladder of crime . She who ascends this step is in danger of ...
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Página 86 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Página 97 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
Página 24 - The earth also was corrupt before God ; and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt ; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Página 218 - He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
Página 28 - He is now exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and forgiveness of sin.
Página 77 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Página 25 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Página 219 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Página 86 - Th' adventure of the Bear and Fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. W HEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why...
Página 263 - Yet shall this wonderful machine go, night and day, for eighty years together, at the rate of a hundred thousand strokes every...