The Young Woman's Friend, Or, The Duties, Trials, Loves, and Hopes of WomanWentworth, 1857 - 250 Seiten |
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... one person a principle of integrity , kindling in one soul an aspiration for the true , the beautiful , and the sublime , it will not have been published in vain . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. MISSION OF WOMAN . - EVE 6 PREFACE .
... one person a principle of integrity , kindling in one soul an aspiration for the true , the beautiful , and the sublime , it will not have been published in vain . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. MISSION OF WOMAN . - EVE 6 PREFACE .
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... True objects of life . Where woman appears best - how best moves the world - how renders herself happy . Educated women . Royal dames . Mothers in Israel . Beauty of piety . Hope of heaven . ᏢᎪᏩᎬ 11 CHAPTER II . THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER ...
... True objects of life . Where woman appears best - how best moves the world - how renders herself happy . Educated women . Royal dames . Mothers in Israel . Beauty of piety . Hope of heaven . ᏢᎪᏩᎬ 11 CHAPTER II . THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER ...
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... true religion , is lost in our admiration of the maiden who gave herself up a victim to a vow which her sire had made , and over which she had no control . The first thing that strikes the mind is the ready obedience of the daughter ...
... true religion , is lost in our admiration of the maiden who gave herself up a victim to a vow which her sire had made , and over which she had no control . The first thing that strikes the mind is the ready obedience of the daughter ...
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... True , there is a vacancy in his home , and a heavi- ness in his heart . There is a chain of association that at set times comes round with its broken link ; there are memories of endearment , a keen sense of loss , a weeping over ...
... True , there is a vacancy in his home , and a heavi- ness in his heart . There is a chain of association that at set times comes round with its broken link ; there are memories of endearment , a keen sense of loss , a weeping over ...
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... true God . He advised the young man to go to Nahor , in the country of Mesopotamia , and find some one there among the worshippers of God , on whom to set his affections . In giving this advice , Abraham exhibited true religious purpose ...
... true God . He advised the young man to go to Nahor , in the country of Mesopotamia , and find some one there among the worshippers of God , on whom to set his affections . In giving this advice , Abraham exhibited true religious purpose ...
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Abigail Abraham adorn altar beautiful behold blessing Boaz bosom bound called cast character child Christ Christian countenance daugh daughter death deeds Delilah drunkard drunkard's wife duty earth Esau father feelings female Florence Nightingale flowers friends girl give grace grief Hagar hand happy hath heard heart heaven holy hope husband influence intemperance Isaac Jacob Jephthah John Bunyan Laban lady LAURA GREENWOOD live look Lord marriage married mind Moab moral Nabal Nahor Naomi ness never night noble Orpah parents person Philistines piety pleasure poor prayer Queen of Sheba Rachel REBECCA EATON Rebekah religion religious Roselle Ruth Samson Sarai says sisters of charity society sorrow soul speak spirit tears tender thee thing thou Timnath tion told took true unto VALLEY OF SOREK virtues voice weep wives woman women words young youth
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Seite 113 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss — Ah, that maternal smile ! it answers — Yes.
Seite 147 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE, AND LIVE.
Seite 230 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Seite 19 - Queen of this universe ! do not believe Those rigid threats of death : ye shall not die : How should you?
Seite 68 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Seite 91 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Seite 108 - For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him : therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Seite 47 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Seite 183 - ... the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Seite 71 - And thither were all the flocks gathered : and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. 4 And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye ? And they said, Of Haran are we. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban, the son of Nahor ? And they said, We know him. And he said unto them, Is he well ? And they said, He i» well : and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.