Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune, Volumen2T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799 - 327 páginas |
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... excellence , that women have fometimes become ridi culous by the unfounded pretenfions of literary vanity for it is not the really learned , but the fmatterers , who have generally brought their fex into difcredit , by an abfurd ...
... excellence , that women have fometimes become ridi culous by the unfounded pretenfions of literary vanity for it is not the really learned , but the fmatterers , who have generally brought their fex into difcredit , by an abfurd ...
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... thofe profeffions which demand a higher reach , and a wider range of powers . The true value of woman is not diminished by the imputation of in- feriority feriority in thofe refpects in which her claim to excellence OF THE SEXES . 25.
... thofe profeffions which demand a higher reach , and a wider range of powers . The true value of woman is not diminished by the imputation of in- feriority feriority in thofe refpects in which her claim to excellence OF THE SEXES . 25.
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... excellence does not confift . She has other requifites better adapted to answer the end and purposes of her being , by " HIM " who does all things well ; " who fuits the agent to the action ; who accommodates the inftrument to the work ...
... excellence does not confift . She has other requifites better adapted to answer the end and purposes of her being , by " HIM " who does all things well ; " who fuits the agent to the action ; who accommodates the inftrument to the work ...
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... excellence are low , or they speak refpectfully of the un- : deferving , to purchase for themselves the reputation of tenderness and generofity ; ' or they lavish unfparing praise on almost all alike , in the ufurious hope of buying ...
... excellence are low , or they speak refpectfully of the un- : deferving , to purchase for themselves the reputation of tenderness and generofity ; ' or they lavish unfparing praise on almost all alike , in the ufurious hope of buying ...
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... that new turn to the character of all the virtues , that perhaps it is the beft teft of the excellence of many that they have little brilliancy in them . them . The Chriftian Religion has de graded fome fplendid 98 CONVERSATION .
... that new turn to the character of all the virtues , that perhaps it is the beft teft of the excellence of many that they have little brilliancy in them . them . The Chriftian Religion has de graded fome fplendid 98 CONVERSATION .
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Página 265 - Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Página 262 - man that he should be clean ? And he that is born of a woman, " that he should be righteous ? Behold he putteth no trust in his " saints ; yea the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Página 261 - And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with' violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Página 284 - Verily, verily I fay unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot fee the kingdom of God.
Página 283 - Jight that you may lay hold on eternal life : " — that faith which directs us " not to be weary in well doing ; " — which says, " Work out your own salvation : " — never forgetting, at the same time, " that it is God which worketh in us both to will and to do.
Página 236 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himfelf, and take up his crofs and follow me.
Página 269 - Thefe are they which came out of great tribulation, and have warned their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and ferve him day and night in his temple: and he that fitteth on the throne mall dwell among them.
Página 142 - Give alms of thy goods, and never turn thy face from any poor man ; and then the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee.
Página 21 - But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a- meek and quiet fpirit, which is in the fight of God of great price.
Página 278 - As I live, faith the Lord, I have no pleafure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way, and live : Turn ye, turn ye from your wil -ways j for why -will ye die, O houfe of Ifrael.