The Education of Mothers of Families, Or, The Civilisation of the Human Race by WomenWhittaker, 1842 - 384 páginas |
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Abbé Henry Albigenses amidst animal Anytus appears awakened barbarous beau ideal beautiful become beneath bestowed bosom Bossuet brute cause CHAPTER child civilisation conscience crime curtseying death degradation delights Descartes destiny destroy develope divine doctrine duties earth EDUCATION OF GIRLS enlightened error eternity evil existence eyes faculties father Fénelon foresight genius give glory gnacs happiness harmony heart heaven human race husband ideas ignorance immortality infinite infinity influence instinct instruction intel intellect intelligence Jeanne d'Albret kings labour law of nature legislators liberty light lives Louis XIV marriage maternal matter ment mind Montaigne moral mother nations neverstopping object ourselves passions perfect philosophers Plato pleasure prejudices present day principle produce raise reason reign religion render seek sense sentiment society Socrates soul Sparta studies sublime superior things thou thought tion true truth unity universal virtue woman women Xenophon
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Página 223 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Whichspring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Página 235 - The mouldering gateway strews the grass-grown court, Once the calm scene of many a simple sport; When nature pleased, for life itself was new, And the heart promised what the fancy drew.
Página 215 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused.
Página 215 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years; The Mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue, That Education gives her, false or true.
Página 215 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely...
Página 221 - English manner of teaching, involve another and a very different question ; and we will venture to say, that there never was a more complete instance in any country of such extravagant and overacted attachment to any branch of knowledge, as that which obtains in this country wiih regard to classical knowledge.
Página iv - And hang their heads with sorrow : good grows with her In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours. God shall be truly known ; and those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.
Página 22 - ... half of the human race, redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, and destined to eternal life.
Página 221 - Greek: he has scarcely a notion that there is any other kind of excellence; and the great system of facts with which he is the most perfectly acquainted, are the intrigues of the Heathen Gods: with whom Pan slept?
Página 230 - But the most beautiful possession which a country can have, is a noble and rich man, who loves virtue and knowledge ; who, without being feeble or fanatical, is pious, and who, without being factious, is firm and independent ; who in his political life is an equitable mediator between king and people, and in his civil life...