Letters to Young LadiesWilliam Watson, 1835 - 212 sayfa |
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accomplishments asso attainment attention beauty benevolence blessed cation character charity cheerfulness cing clime comfort conversation Cotton Mather cultivated dear young friends delightful desire dignity dili domestic dress duties elevation eminent employment ence eternal evil excellent exer exercise feelings friendship gather Georgics give grace gratitude Greece habit happiness hath heart Heaven hour human nature humility ibly illustrious important improvement indulge industry influence instruction intel intellectual intercourse judgment kind knowledge of human labor lect lence lips Lord Bacon Madam de Genlis memory ment mind moral morning ness never piety Plato pleasure Plutarch poor possess praise principle privilege Prussia pursuits quired render sacred says sentiments sometimes sorrow soul spect sphere spirit stoics sweet taste teachers thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion trifles vanity virtue wisdom woman young lady youth
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Sayfa 102 - And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
Sayfa 149 - Good," which, I think, was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by a former possessor that several leaves of it were torn out, but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good than on any other kind of reputation ; and if I have been, as you seem to think, a useful citizen, the public owes the advantage of it to that book.
Sayfa 155 - Few men ever carried out so fully the injunction, not to let the left hand know what the right hand did, in the quiet and steady outflow of good will and good works, as Mr.
Sayfa 89 - ... discover them clearly, and adoring their profundity where we are lost in our search, we may be inquisitive without impertinence, and elevated without pride; we may be admitted, if I may dare to say so, into the counsels of the Almighty by a consideration of his works.
Sayfa 153 - Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples, not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art, not to collect medals or collate manuscripts, — but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the...
Sayfa 201 - Him, who hath made both one, and broken down the middle wall of partition between us.
Sayfa 149 - When I was a boy, I met with a book entitled "Essays to do Good," which I think was written by your father. It had been so little regarded by its former possessor, that several leaves of it were torn out; but the remainder gave me such a turn of thinking, as to have an influence on my conduct through life; for I have always set a greater value on the character of a doer of good, than...
Sayfa 70 - Sincerity is, to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.
Sayfa 66 - ... to do so from any peculiar circumstances, and to read, too, as well as Garrick himself would have done, if the young lady possesses the power of doing it. Why may she not do this with as much genuine modesty ; and with as much of a desire to oblige her friends ; and with as little of ostentation as to sit down, in the same circle, to the piano, and play, and sing, in the style of the first masters ? If to do the former is making too much of a display of her talents, why should not the latter...
Sayfa 188 - ... enjoyment of the beautiful in nature and art, and the kindred perception of the beauty and nobility of virtue ; the strengthening consciousness of duty fulfilled ; and, to crown all, " the peace which passeth all understanding...
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