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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... be , Nor fo enfeoff'd to Popularity , That being nightly swallowed by Men's eyes , They're furfeited with honey , and begin To loathe the taste of sweetnefs . SHAKESPEARE . CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . CHAP . XIII .
... be , Nor fo enfeoff'd to Popularity , That being nightly swallowed by Men's eyes , They're furfeited with honey , and begin To loathe the taste of sweetnefs . SHAKESPEARE . CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . CHAP . XIII .
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... taste . Both in compofition and action they excel in details ; but they do ... not fo much generalize their ideas as men , nor do their minds feize a great fubject with fo large a grafp . They are acute ob- fervers , and accurate judges ...
... taste . Both in compofition and action they excel in details ; but they do ... not fo much generalize their ideas as men , nor do their minds feize a great fubject with fo large a grafp . They are acute ob- fervers , and accurate judges ...
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... taste of general fociety is not favourable to improvement . The seriouf- nefs with which the most frivolous fubjects are agitated , and the levity with which the most serious are difpatched , bear a pretty exact proportion to each other ...
... taste of general fociety is not favourable to improvement . The seriouf- nefs with which the most frivolous fubjects are agitated , and the levity with which the most serious are difpatched , bear a pretty exact proportion to each other ...
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... of compofition . Every kind of knowledge which appears to be the refult of obfervation , reflection , and natural taste , fits gracefully on women . Yet on the other other hand it fometimes happens , that ladies of no 56 CONVERSATION .
... of compofition . Every kind of knowledge which appears to be the refult of obfervation , reflection , and natural taste , fits gracefully on women . Yet on the other other hand it fometimes happens , that ladies of no 56 CONVERSATION .
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... taste of the reader , far more than a dif - jointed skeleton , or a beautiful feature or two can do . The inftruction of women is alfo too much drawn from the fcanty and penurious fources of fhort writings of the effay kind : this ...
... taste of the reader , far more than a dif - jointed skeleton , or a beautiful feature or two can do . The inftruction of women is alfo too much drawn from the fcanty and penurious fources of fhort writings of the effay kind : this ...
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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.