Stray Thoughts for GirlsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1910 - 201 páginas |
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... speak so as to be " understanded of " them ; she is not one of those who have learnt that " avoir beaucoup souffert d'est comme ceux qui savent beaucoup de langues , avoir appris à tout comprendre , et à se faire comprendre de tous ...
... speak so as to be " understanded of " them ; she is not one of those who have learnt that " avoir beaucoup souffert d'est comme ceux qui savent beaucoup de langues , avoir appris à tout comprendre , et à se faire comprendre de tous ...
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... Virtuous Woman would not usurp his office , just because she had the power of speaking well , -she would remember the Russian proverb , " The Master is the Head of the House , while the Mistress is its Soul 24 THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN .
... Virtuous Woman would not usurp his office , just because she had the power of speaking well , -she would remember the Russian proverb , " The Master is the Head of the House , while the Mistress is its Soul 24 THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN .
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... speaking through us , and making us His instruments , which He will not do if we are behaving wrongly . " She looketh well to the ways of her household . " She gives her servants full work , and insists on its being done , at the right ...
... speaking through us , and making us His instruments , which He will not do if we are behaving wrongly . " She looketh well to the ways of her household . " She gives her servants full work , and insists on its being done , at the right ...
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... Speaking calm hope and trust within her , whence Welleth a noiseless spring of patience , That keepeth all her life so fresh , so green And full of holiness , that every look , The greatness of her woman's soul revealing , Unto me ...
... Speaking calm hope and trust within her , whence Welleth a noiseless spring of patience , That keepeth all her life so fresh , so green And full of holiness , that every look , The greatness of her woman's soul revealing , Unto me ...
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... Speak out then , or at least be silent and unresponsive . Thirdly , do something for other people , some steady kindness which you do not give up just to suit your own convenience . Now , what plan of life should you have ? You must ...
... Speak out then , or at least be silent and unresponsive . Thirdly , do something for other people , some steady kindness which you do not give up just to suit your own convenience . Now , what plan of life should you have ? You must ...
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Términos y frases comunes
amuse Aunt Rachel better brothers Church comfort commonplace conscience dress enjoy Epictetus esprit de corps Euclid extremes meet fault feel friends friendship George Eliot girl give God's gossip hand happiness hard harm heart holidays home duties husband ideal idle interests Italy keep kind lady Lady Jane Grey leaving school lessons live look Marcus Aurelius married matter Matthew Arnold means mind mother Mysteries of Udolpho nature never nice noble nobler noblesse oblige novels passionate book perhaps person pity pleasant pleasure poetry prayers Relief of Man's remember resolution Roger Ascham rule self-denial self-indulgence selfish sense sensible servants side silly sometimes sort soul speak spend Sunday sure talk teach tell things thought true uncon unselfish Urith Virtuous Woman wish women words wrong young yourselves
Pasajes populares
Página 170 - Then, welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
Página 15 - But so far as it is a sacred place, a vestal temple, a temple of the hearth watched over by household gods, before whose faces none may come but those whom they can receive with love,— so far as it is this, and roof and fire are types only of a nobler shade and light, shade as of the rock in a weary land, and light as of the Pharos in the stormy sea,— so far it vindicates the name and fulfils the praise of home.
Página 24 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 197 - I see a glimpse of it!" cries he elsewhere: "there is in man a HIGHER than Love of Happiness: he can do without Happiness, and instead thereof find Blessedness! Was it not to preach forth this same HIGHER that sages and martyrs, the Poet and the Priest, in all times, have spoken and suffered; bearing testimony, through life and through death, of the Godlike that is in Man, and how in the Godlike only has he Strength and Freedom?
Página 165 - He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
Página 164 - I suppose you mean the greatest love, and the greatest usefulness, and the most open communication, and the noblest sufferings, and the most exemplary faithfulness, and the severest truth, and the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds, of which brave men and -women are capable.
Página 28 - Of some sweet Future, which we after find Bitter to taste, or bind that in with fears, And water it beforehand with our tears — Vain tears for that which never may arrive ; Meanwhile the joy whereby we ought to live Neglected or unheeded disappears. Wiser it were to welcome and make ours Whate'er of good, though small, the Present brings — Kind greetings, sunshine, song of birds, and flowers, With a child's pure delight in little things; And of the griefs unborn to rest secure, Knowing that mercy...