The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volume 1W. Strahan, 1772 - Conduct of life |
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... fuppofe for them that they have a lawful end in view , to marry to their advantage : how can they hope to have good husbands if they have not wife ones ? And beauty without merit and virtue , is a bait for fools . To marry happily , a ...
... fuppofe for them that they have a lawful end in view , to marry to their advantage : how can they hope to have good husbands if they have not wife ones ? And beauty without merit and virtue , is a bait for fools . To marry happily , a ...
Page 139
... fuppofe it to be the dwelling of fome perfon of fortune and magnificence , who had fpaired for neither coft nor art to make it wor- thy the generous owner . Yet what is this piece of ground fo ordered , and on the beautifying of which ...
... fuppofe it to be the dwelling of fome perfon of fortune and magnificence , who had fpaired for neither coft nor art to make it wor- thy the generous owner . Yet what is this piece of ground fo ordered , and on the beautifying of which ...
Page 141
... fuppofe a mill - ftone falling from the fun upon the earth ; let it , come down with all the swiftnefs imaginable , and even fwifter than the fall of the heaviest bodies , from places . ever fo high . Let us fuppofe alfo , that it ...
... fuppofe a mill - ftone falling from the fun upon the earth ; let it , come down with all the swiftnefs imaginable , and even fwifter than the fall of the heaviest bodies , from places . ever fo high . Let us fuppofe alfo , that it ...
Page 142
... fuppofe a man placed on one of the ftars , this fun , this earth , and the ninety millions of miles , between them , would feem to him but as one point , of which there are demonftrations given ; for this reafon , the diffance between ...
... fuppofe a man placed on one of the ftars , this fun , this earth , and the ninety millions of miles , between them , would feem to him but as one point , of which there are demonftrations given ; for this reafon , the diffance between ...
Page 217
... either to be so honeft as to follow his example , or fo modeft as to disclaim any relation to him . Farther , to fuppofe ourselves independent VOL . I. L poffef- poffeffors of our outward enjoyments and abilities to do good CHARIT Y. 217.
... either to be so honeft as to follow his example , or fo modeft as to disclaim any relation to him . Farther , to fuppofe ourselves independent VOL . I. L poffef- poffeffors of our outward enjoyments and abilities to do good CHARIT Y. 217.
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Page 45 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 14 - Sodom and her daughters1," and indeed is the burial of a living man, an idle person being so useless to any purposes of God and man, that he is like one that is dead, unconcerned in the changes and necessities of the world ; and he only lives to spend his time, and eat the fruits of the earth : like a vermin or a wolf...
Page 13 - For we must remember that we have a great work to do, many enemies to conquer, many evils to prevent, much danger to run through, many difficulties to be mastered, many necessities to serve, and much good to do...
Page 90 - ... For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner ; and he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: and, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Page 48 - Lay not up for yourfelves treafures upon earth, where moth and ruft doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and fteal...
Page 329 - ... made less heavy to them by the contemplation of their being laid out in state and honourably attended to the grave.
Page 80 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 274 - no one, who believes the Scriptures can doubt this." " And is not this," he said, " the very doctrine of the first part of the Creed ; ' that the Father is GOD, the Son is GOD, and the Holy Ghost is GOD; and yet they are not three GODS, but one GOD?
Page 260 - Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it : and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it : and if he have, that he speak it not again. Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.