Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune, Bind 2T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1799 - 327 sider |
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... perhaps be found often to accufe her- felf as unjustly as good St. Jerome , when he laments that he was beaten by the Angel for being too Ciceronian in his style * . But the truth is , women who are fo puffed up with the conceit of ...
... perhaps be found often to accufe her- felf as unjustly as good St. Jerome , when he laments that he was beaten by the Angel for being too Ciceronian in his style * . But the truth is , women who are fo puffed up with the conceit of ...
Side 8
... perhaps in her childhood exhausted all the images of grief and love , and fancy , picked up in her defultory poetical reading , in an elegy on a fick linnet or a dead lap - dog ; fhe begins thenceforward to be confidered as a prodigy in ...
... perhaps in her childhood exhausted all the images of grief and love , and fancy , picked up in her defultory poetical reading , in an elegy on a fick linnet or a dead lap - dog ; fhe begins thenceforward to be confidered as a prodigy in ...
Side 9
... perhaps when her verfes come to be stripped of all their extraneous append- ages , and the fair author is driven off her ' vantage - ground of partiality , fex , and favour , fhe will commonly fink to the level of ordinary capacities ...
... perhaps when her verfes come to be stripped of all their extraneous append- ages , and the fair author is driven off her ' vantage - ground of partiality , fex , and favour , fhe will commonly fink to the level of ordinary capacities ...
Side 10
... perhaps at firft , is soon spent ; and the fubfequent efforts grow more and more faint , if the mind which is continu- ally exhausting itself , be not alfo continu ally replenished ; till the latter compofitions become little more than ...
... perhaps at firft , is soon spent ; and the fubfequent efforts grow more and more faint , if the mind which is continu- ally exhausting itself , be not alfo continu ally replenished ; till the latter compofitions become little more than ...
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... perhaps more effectually tend to damp in an afpiring woman the ardours of literary vanity ( I fpeak not of real genius ) than any which fhe will derive from motives of humility , or propriety , or religion ; which is , that in the ...
... perhaps more effectually tend to damp in an afpiring woman the ardours of literary vanity ( I fpeak not of real genius ) than any which fhe will derive from motives of humility , or propriety , or religion ; which is , that in the ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 233 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Side 284 - Verily, verily I fay unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot fee the kingdom of God.
Side 198 - So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Side 316 - Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard : I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Side 263 - And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true ; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
Side 287 - Behold, I ftand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will fup with him, and he with me...
Side 238 - If any man will come after me, let him deny himfelf, and take up his crofs and follow me.
Side 291 - He is now exalted to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and forgiveness of sin.