The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home, Volumes 1-3P.B. Whitmore, 1835 |
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... tion are in many respects valuable , they do not precisely meet the nature of our wants . We have theory in abundance , and are yet lamentably deficient in practice . Many of these theo- ries are altogether too fine spun for every - day ...
... tion are in many respects valuable , they do not precisely meet the nature of our wants . We have theory in abundance , and are yet lamentably deficient in practice . Many of these theo- ries are altogether too fine spun for every - day ...
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... tion which causes him , as he makes his boast , to rise above the re- straints of religion , and to despise and reject its authority - ask him why there is so marked a difference between your sex and his on the subject of religion ? and ...
... tion which causes him , as he makes his boast , to rise above the re- straints of religion , and to despise and reject its authority - ask him why there is so marked a difference between your sex and his on the subject of religion ? and ...
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... tion , by those graces , and virtues , and accomplishments , which give so much gratification to taste and sentiment . As you enter upon the more responsible duties of the married life , you become the attraction of those domestic ...
... tion , by those graces , and virtues , and accomplishments , which give so much gratification to taste and sentiment . As you enter upon the more responsible duties of the married life , you become the attraction of those domestic ...
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... tion , that this same Court has ever existed . Children are endowed with the same perceptions and powers of discrimination in all ages and countries . It is a Court where precedent is set at nought , but which proceeds on the same ...
... tion , that this same Court has ever existed . Children are endowed with the same perceptions and powers of discrimination in all ages and countries . It is a Court where precedent is set at nought , but which proceeds on the same ...
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... tion in contemplating that love which has passed its trial hour , undim- med and undiminished . There is another reason : If we cannot all invent , we can all observe ; and he must be singularly unfortunate in his society who does not ...
... tion in contemplating that love which has passed its trial hour , undim- med and undiminished . There is another reason : If we cannot all invent , we can all observe ; and he must be singularly unfortunate in his society who does not ...
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Page 173 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Page 179 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 5 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Page 180 - Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 174 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Page 174 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 62 - With other ministrations thou, O Nature ! Healest thy wandering and distempered child: Thou pourest on him thy soft influences, Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing sweets; Thy melodies of woods, and winds, and waters ! Till he relent, and can no more endure To be a jarring and a dissonant thing Amid this general dance and minstrelsy; But, bursting into tears, wins back his way, His angry spirit healed and harmonized By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
Page 174 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 117 - When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a pin (And thou wast happier than myself the while, Wouldst softly speak, and stroke my head, and smile) ; Could those few pleasant days again appear, Might one wish bring them, would I wish them here?
Page 64 - My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.