The Young Wife, Or, Duties of Woman in the Marriage RelationG.W. Light, 1837 - 376 páginas |
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... society . 5. Are bad teachers . 6. Practice anti - republican . 7. It is unchristian . Waste of time in cookery . What useful cookery is . Other waste- ful practices . Morning calls . General remarks . An anecdote . 152-177 CHAPTER XX ...
... society . 5. Are bad teachers . 6. Practice anti - republican . 7. It is unchristian . Waste of time in cookery . What useful cookery is . Other waste- ful practices . Morning calls . General remarks . An anecdote . 152-177 CHAPTER XX ...
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... society . Serious error of some modern writers . A caution . Making haste to be rich . A species of mania . Its extent and evils . How the young wife is concerned with it . What she can do to remove it . Agur's prayer - seldom used in ...
... society . Serious error of some modern writers . A caution . Making haste to be rich . A species of mania . Its extent and evils . How the young wife is concerned with it . What she can do to remove it . Agur's prayer - seldom used in ...
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... which I refer , is insep- arable , perhaps , from the practice of writing for particular classes of society ; and if so , every author must be prepared to meet it I have one more caution . If the same idea 18 PREFACE .
... which I refer , is insep- arable , perhaps , from the practice of writing for particular classes of society ; and if so , every author must be prepared to meet it I have one more caution . If the same idea 18 PREFACE .
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... society , how deeply unfortunate must be the condition of a married couple , both of whom were in this condition ! Nor would their condition be much improved , were the husband what he ought to be , while the wife remained unmoved ...
... society , how deeply unfortunate must be the condition of a married couple , both of whom were in this condition ! Nor would their condition be much improved , were the husband what he ought to be , while the wife remained unmoved ...
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... society for half an hour , and be active in conversation or otherwise , without catching something , if I may so express the idea . Yet this sympathetic influence may not always be favorable . A person - even a wife - who should be ...
... society for half an hour , and be active in conversation or otherwise , without catching something , if I may so express the idea . Yet this sympathetic influence may not always be favorable . A person - even a wife - who should be ...
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Alcibiades apple sauce asso become believe better bread breakfast called cerns CHAPTER character cheerfulness christian cider circumstances common confidence course domestic dress drink duty early effects efforts especially evil example excitement favor feelings female friends give greater habits happiness Harvard College heart hope hour HOUSE I LIVE housewife human nature husband importance improvement individual influence kind labor least less manner marriage married married couple matrimony matter means ment mind moral Morning calls neatness necessity never object once opinion parents pathy perhaps person physiology present principle punctuality reason reformation regard remarks render respect rience rising scold servants sick social society sometimes soon spects spirit sugar of lead suppose SYLVESTER GRAHAM sympathy things tion true truth vidual whole wholly wives woman word young wife
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Página 88 - 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.
Página 88 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Página 88 - ... she layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff : she stretcheth out her hand to the poor, yea she reacheth forth her hands to the needy : she is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet : she maketh herself covering of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.
Página 88 - 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.
Página 88 - 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.
Página 284 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 222 - In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety ; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array ; 10 But, which becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
Página 357 - Wisdom inflicts the chastisement, as well as bestows the enjoyments of human life ; that superintending goodness will one day enlighten the darkness which surrounds our nature, and hangs over our prospects ; that this dreary and wretched life is not the whole of man ; that an animal so sagacious and provident, and capable of such proficiency in science and virtue is not like the beasts that perish ; that there is a dwelling-place prepared for the spirits of the just, and that the ways of God will...
Página 356 - I could recall those moments,) she had no sullenness or acrimony. Her feelings were warm and impetuous, but she was placable, tender and constant. " Such was she whom I have lost ; and I have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly improving, after eight years...
Página 356 - I have lost her when her excellent natural sense was rapidly improving, after eight years of struggle and distress had bound us fast together, and moulded our tempers to each other — when a knowledge of her worth had refined my youthful love into friendship, before age had deprived it of much of its original ardor — I lost her, alas ! (the choice of my youth and the partner of my misfortunes) at a moment when I had the prospect of her sharing my better days.