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... young married people , on the proper course of keep- ing and increasing information , would do much service to society . A love of reading does something towards this , but without a system , this reading is too cursory , and has in ...
... young married people , on the proper course of keep- ing and increasing information , would do much service to society . A love of reading does something towards this , but without a system , this reading is too cursory , and has in ...
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... young ladies in our schools and at home ; and we believed that it would suit their tastes better , and be more beneficial to them , in taking a general view of their sex , to pre- sent them with characters drawn from many countries ...
... young ladies in our schools and at home ; and we believed that it would suit their tastes better , and be more beneficial to them , in taking a general view of their sex , to pre- sent them with characters drawn from many countries ...
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... young divines to form their sermons upon . Her character of Saint Paul is not only an admirable piece of biography , with connections and depend- ences , but every trait is thrown into the picture , with a skill that would do honor to a ...
... young divines to form their sermons upon . Her character of Saint Paul is not only an admirable piece of biography , with connections and depend- ences , but every trait is thrown into the picture , with a skill that would do honor to a ...
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... exerted to tear her from her books . Many of the best English authors had at this time been printed in Boston ; and she committed to memory nearly the whole of Milton , Young , Pope 2 Hannah Adams, Maria Cajetana Agnesi, | Charlotte Corde,
... exerted to tear her from her books . Many of the best English authors had at this time been printed in Boston ; and she committed to memory nearly the whole of Milton , Young , Pope 2 Hannah Adams, Maria Cajetana Agnesi, | Charlotte Corde,
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... Young , Pope , Thomson , Armstrong , and others of this school . Shakspeare had not then come into vogue , being read then only by a few : but the instant she had possession of the work , it riveted her attention , notwithstanding , on ...
... Young , Pope , Thomson , Armstrong , and others of this school . Shakspeare had not then come into vogue , being read then only by a few : but the instant she had possession of the work , it riveted her attention , notwithstanding , on ...
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Page 52 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Page 58 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 389 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 21 - 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...
Page 22 - Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife : there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
Page 381 - YE say, they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That, 'mid the forests where they roamed, There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, — Ye may not wash it out.
Page 21 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Page 303 - THE playful smiles around the dimpled mouth, That happy air of majesty and truth, So would I draw : but oh ! 'tis vain to try ; My narrow genius does the power deny. The equal lustre of the heavenly mind, Where every grace with every virtue's...
Page 438 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband : and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 95 - But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise mine...