The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volumen2W. Strahan, 1772 |
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... defign that can be : who should intend the benefit of the children fo much as the parents , who feem to live for no other end than to do them good ? They have no other aim than their advantage ; all their care and ftudy , all their ...
... defign that can be : who should intend the benefit of the children fo much as the parents , who feem to live for no other end than to do them good ? They have no other aim than their advantage ; all their care and ftudy , all their ...
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... defign , and all they are getting ftill , and delire to get , is for us ; where- fore we can fufpect them of no defign upon us , and all thefe things fhew us most evidently , that what they say to us , and the commands they fay upon us ...
... defign , and all they are getting ftill , and delire to get , is for us ; where- fore we can fufpect them of no defign upon us , and all thefe things fhew us most evidently , that what they say to us , and the commands they fay upon us ...
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... defign to paint to the utmost life , are apt to infinuate them- felves into unwary readers , and by an unhappy inver- fion a copy fhall produce an original . When a poor young creature fall ead there of fame triumphant beauty that has I ...
... defign to paint to the utmost life , are apt to infinuate them- felves into unwary readers , and by an unhappy inver- fion a copy fhall produce an original . When a poor young creature fall ead there of fame triumphant beauty that has I ...
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... to hav quite forgotten the toys and vanities of childhood and befides , thofe who defign marriage , may lawfull make use of the advantage of decent ornaments , and no b by negligent rudeness of their dress bel ; e nature 30 The DAUGHTER .
... to hav quite forgotten the toys and vanities of childhood and befides , thofe who defign marriage , may lawfull make use of the advantage of decent ornaments , and no b by negligent rudeness of their dress bel ; e nature 30 The DAUGHTER .
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... defign to them ; and if he decline that , it is a certain fymptom , he is conscious of fomething that he knows will not give him a valu- able confideration . This courfe will repel no fuitor , but fuch as it is their intereft not to ...
... defign to them ; and if he decline that , it is a certain fymptom , he is conscious of fomething that he knows will not give him a valu- able confideration . This courfe will repel no fuitor , but fuch as it is their intereft not to ...
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Página 239 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Página 191 - Art; and he that has found a way, how to keep up a Child's Spirit, easy, active and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a Mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming Contradictions, has, in my Opinion, got the true Secret of Education.
Página 181 - As the strength of the body lies chiefly in being able to endure hardships, so also does that of the mind. And the great principle and foundation of all virtue and worth is placed in this, that a man is able to deny himself his own desires, cross his own inclinations, and purely follow what reason directs as best, though the appetite lean the other way.
Página 48 - In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behaviour of their wives ; beholding your chaste behaviour coupled with fear.
Página 208 - ... or governor's sight. If it be a prison to them, it is no wonder they should not like it. They must not be hindered from being children, or from playing, or doing as children ; but from doing ill. All other liberty is to be allowed them.
Página 189 - Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself, and his own conduct; and he that is a good, a virtuous, and able man, must be made so within. And therefore what he is to receive from education, what is to sway and influence his life, must be something put into him betimes; habits woven into the very principles of his nature; and not a counterfeit carriage, and dissembled outside, put on by fear, only to avoid the present anger of a father, who perhaps may disinherit him.
Página 188 - If therefore a strict hand be kept over children from the beginning, they will in that age be tractable, and quietly submit to it, as never having known any other...
Página 202 - ... it. For in many cases, all that we can do, or should aim at, is to make the best of what Nature has given; to prevent the Vices and Faults to which such a Constitution is most inclined, and give it all the Advantages it is capable of. Every one's Natural Genius should be carried as far as it could, but to Attempt the putting another upon him, will be but Labour in vain: And what is so Plaister'd on, will at best sit but untowardly, and have always hanging to it the Ungracefulness of Constraint...
Página 191 - To avoid the danger that is on either hand is the great art : and he that has found a way how to keep up a child's spirit, easy, active, and free; and yet, at the same time, to restrain him from many things he has a mind to, and to draw him to things that are uneasy to him ; he, I say, that knows how to reconcile these seeming contradictions, has, in my opinion, got the true secret of education.
Página 161 - I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education. 'Tis that which makes the great difference in mankind.