A Father's Legacy to His Daughters: With a Biographical Sketch of the AuthorJ.B. Dow, 1834 - 148 páginas |
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Aberdeen acquaintance advice affection agreeable amusement appear arise attachment attention avoid behavior cerning character church of England companion conceal conduct consequence conversation coquetry dear degree delicacy dignity disa disposition distress dress duty endeavor equal eral esteem exer faults favor feelings felicity female fortune frequently friendship girl give happiness heart hereditary disease honor human humor husband impa indulge infants inju injury JOHN GREGORY judgment kind ladies least lence libertine lover manner marriage marry mence ment method mind modesty mother nature necessary never nity obedience observation opinion pain panion particular passion perfect perhaps person pleasure proper prudent reason receive regard religion religious render ribaldry ridiculous rules secret sense sensible sentiments servants sibility sincere spect spirit sufficient superior taste temper thing thor thought tion trifling truth understanding utmost vanity Vicar of Wakefield virtue wish woman women yourselves
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Página 31 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Página 10 - Rutherford, was Professor of the Practice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, and his mother's brother, Dr Daniel Rutherford, an eminent chemist, afterwards occupied the chair of Botany.
Página 33 - ... needlework, knitting, and such like, is not on account of the intrinsic value of all you can do with your hands, which is trifling, but to enable you to judge more perfectly of that kind of work, and to direct the execution of it in others.
Página 59 - ... to secure their present and eternal happiness, frustrated and turned into ridicule. As I look on your choice of a husband to be of the greatest. consequence to your happiness, I hope you will make it with the utmost circumspection.
Página 18 - There are many circumstances in your situation that peculiarly require the supports of religion to enable you to act in them with spirit and propriety. Your whole life is often a life of suffering. You cannot plunge into business, or dissipate yourselves in pleasure and riot, as men too often do, when under the pressure of misfortunes. You must bear your sorrows in silence, unknown and unpitied.
Página 53 - I am not enough of a patriot to wish you to marry for the good of the public. I wish you to marry for no other reason but to make yourselves happier. When I am so particular in my advices about your conduct, I own my heart beats with the fond hope of making you worthy the attachment of men who will deserve you, and be sensible of your merit. But Heaven forbid you should ever relinquish the ease and independence of a single life, to become the slaves of a fool or a tyrant's caprice.
Página 51 - But miserable will be your fate, if you allow an attachment to steal on you before you are sure of a return ; or, what is infinitely worse, where there are wanting those qualities which alone can ensure happiness in a married state.
Página 26 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company.— But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding.
Página 49 - ... in silence. Every sentiment of esteem will remain ; but love, though it requires very little food, and is easily surfeited with too. much, yet it requires some. He will view her in the light of a married woman ; and, though passion subsides, yet a man of a candid and generous heart always retains a tenderness for a woman he has once loved, and who has used him well, beyond what he feels for any other of her sex. If he has not confided his own secret to any body, he has an undoubted title to ask...
Página 59 - He likewise entails the worst diseases on his wife and children, if he has the misfortune to have any. If you have a sense of religion yourselves, do not think of husbands who have none. If they have tolerable understandings they will be glad that you have religion, for their own sakes, and for the sake of their families; but it will sink you in their esteem.