Parental Legacies: Consisting of Advice from a Lady of Quality to Her Children. Delivered in the Last Stage of a Lingering IllnessAmbrose Walker. Also sold by Robert Moore, 38 Pearl Street, New York, and other booksellers in New York and Philadelphia, 1808 - 384 Seiten |
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able acquainted admiration affection agreeable amusements ance appear attachment attention behaviour betwixt blessing character charms comfort conduct CONFERENCE consanguinity consider conversation dear children death delicacy desire despise dissipation distinguish duty effeminacy endeavour engaged esteem exem eyes false friends father flattering folly forget fortune friends friends of mankind friendship gentleman give gratify happiness heart Heaven honour hope instructions Johnson kind lence libertine ligion live look luxury manner marriage marry ment midst mind mother nature ness never nish ourselves passions persons pleasure poor possession present pride reason receive reflections regard religion render respect riches ridiculous ruin SALISBURY PLAIN satiety seldom sense sensible sentiments serve shepherd shew sider sions soul speak spirit suffer sure taste tence thing thought timate tion tivate trifles true truth turally utmost vanity vate vice virtue virtuous weakness wife wish woman worthy yourselves
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Seite 336 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Seite 326 - ... according to what he hath, and not according to what he hath not.
Seite 302 - I am not enough of a patriot to wish you to marry for the good of the public. I wish you to marry for no other reason but to make yourselves happier. When I am so particular in my advices about your conduct, I own my heart beats with the fond hope of making you worthy the attachment of men who will deserve you, and be sensible of your merit. But Heaven forbid you should ever relinquish the ease and independence of a single life, to become the slaves of a fool or a tyrant's caprice.
Seite 265 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company. — But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding.
Seite 362 - I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous, than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views ; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
Seite 324 - I have led but a lonely life, and have often had but little to eat ; but my Bible has been meat, drink, 4* and company to me, as I may say ; and when want and trouble have come upon me, I don't know what I should have done indeed, sir, if I had not had the promises of this book for my stay and support.
Seite 270 - The power of a fine woman over the hearts of men, of men of the finest parts, is even beyond what she conceives. They are sensible of the pleasing illusion, but they cannot, nor do they wish to dissolve it. But if she is determined to dispel the charm, it certainly is in her power, she may soon reduce the angel to a very ordinary girl.
Seite 309 - Do not marry a fool; he is the most intractable of all animals: he is led by his passions and caprices, and is incapable of hearing the voice of reason. It may probably, too, hurt your vanity to have husbands, for whom you have reason to blush and tremble every time they open their lips in company.
Seite 265 - Humour is a different quality. It will make your company much solicited ; but be cautious how you indulge it It is often a great enemy to delicacy, and a still greater one to dignity of character.
Seite 321 - You think, then, said the gentleman, that a laborious life is a happy one. I do, sir, and more so, especially as it exposes a man to fewer sins. If king Saul had continued a poor, laborious man to the end of his days, he might have lived happy and honest, and died a natural death in his bed at last, which you know, sir, was more than he did.