The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, Volumen2W. Strahan, 1772 |
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... wives than one . Divorces were cheap and eafy , and they took great li- berties befides with whom they could ; and therefore if they liked not the condition or perfon of a wife , they either wandered from her bed , and took to loofe ...
... wives than one . Divorces were cheap and eafy , and they took great li- berties befides with whom they could ; and therefore if they liked not the condition or perfon of a wife , they either wandered from her bed , and took to loofe ...
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... wives , who are now going to make up a family , that there is an abfolute neceffity of government , which fuppofes fubjection fomewhere or other . They muft needs fee that every family , the original indeed and model of bodies corporate ...
... wives , who are now going to make up a family , that there is an abfolute neceffity of government , which fuppofes fubjection fomewhere or other . They muft needs fee that every family , the original indeed and model of bodies corporate ...
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... Wives fubmit yourselves unto your own husbands , as " it is fit in the Lord , " fays the Apoftle ; and again , " Wives fubmit yourselves unto your own husbands , as " unto the Lord ; for the husband is the head of the " wife , as Chrift ...
... Wives fubmit yourselves unto your own husbands , as " it is fit in the Lord , " fays the Apoftle ; and again , " Wives fubmit yourselves unto your own husbands , as " unto the Lord ; for the husband is the head of the " wife , as Chrift ...
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... wives must take good care , that the commands which they comply not with , may be fuch as will justify them to any wife impartial people ; that whoever will be judges , they may reafonably excufe their non - compli ance , and condemn ...
... wives must take good care , that the commands which they comply not with , may be fuch as will justify them to any wife impartial people ; that whoever will be judges , they may reafonably excufe their non - compli ance , and condemn ...
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... wives as much , is what they will never be able to account for . de- Subjection , in this place and argument , does not only fignify bare fubmiffion to the will and pleasure of husbands , but includes alfo other qualifications , fuch as ...
... wives as much , is what they will never be able to account for . de- Subjection , in this place and argument , does not only fignify bare fubmiffion to the will and pleasure of husbands , but includes alfo other qualifications , fuch as ...
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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.