The Fireside Friend, Or, Female Student: Being Advice to Young Ladies on the Important Subject of Education : with an Appendix, on Moral and Religious Education, from the French of Madame de SaussureMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840 - 377 strán (strany) |
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Strana 18
... furnishes the means of doing good to others ; and of assisting to promote the noble designs of such as possess great benevolence , without the pecuniary means of carrying their plans into effect . Wealth enables its 18 THE FIRESIDE FRIEND .
... furnishes the means of doing good to others ; and of assisting to promote the noble designs of such as possess great benevolence , without the pecuniary means of carrying their plans into effect . Wealth enables its 18 THE FIRESIDE FRIEND .
Strana 27
... possess present advantages , to treat with attention such as are less favored by fortune , but who deserve respect for their morals and talents , and whose friendship may , at some future period , confer honor and distinction . There ...
... possess present advantages , to treat with attention such as are less favored by fortune , but who deserve respect for their morals and talents , and whose friendship may , at some future period , confer honor and distinction . There ...
Strana 28
... students are most dis- tinguished for morality and talents ; -they will not , gen- erally speaking , point to the sons of the rich and the great , to those who feel that they already possess sufficient re- 28 THE FIRESIDE FRIEND .
... students are most dis- tinguished for morality and talents ; -they will not , gen- erally speaking , point to the sons of the rich and the great , to those who feel that they already possess sufficient re- 28 THE FIRESIDE FRIEND .
Strana 29
... possess sufficient re- commendations to the favor of the world : no , we shall be told that the highest places are often filled by stu dents , who are struggling against difficulties in the acqui- sition of that intellectual wealth ...
... possess sufficient re- commendations to the favor of the world : no , we shall be told that the highest places are often filled by stu dents , who are struggling against difficulties in the acqui- sition of that intellectual wealth ...
Strana 31
... possesses them . Our great object should be to consider , how we may best attain those qualifications which will fit us for the duties of life , and for enjoying happiness hereafter . You , my young readers , are gifted by the great ...
... possesses them . Our great object should be to consider , how we may best attain those qualifications which will fit us for the duties of life , and for enjoying happiness hereafter . You , my young readers , are gifted by the great ...
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Strana 67 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Strana 212 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him.
Strana 103 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Strana 195 - Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Strana 25 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee...
Strana 26 - So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul : when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
Strana 267 - Were they like those of other parts of the globe ; or were they some strange and monstrous race, such as the imagination in those times was prone to give to all remote and unknown regions? Had he come upon some wild island, far in the Indian seas; or was this the famed Cipango itself, the object of his golden fancies? A thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as he watched for the night to pass away; wondering whether the morning light would reveal a savage wilderness, or dawn...
Strana 254 - THE SACRED PHILOSOPHY OF THE SEASONS, illustrating The Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year.
Strana 267 - ... to give to all remote and unknown regions ? Had he come upon some wild island far in the Indian Sea ? or was this the famed Cipango itself, the object of his golden fancies ? A thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as, with his anxious crews, he waited...