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... women , that is , in general for that very important class of diseases which in our day are grouped under the term psychoneuroses . A physician friend , in discussing the suggestion , said that no words that he knew would dispel or be ...
... women , that is , in general for that very important class of diseases which in our day are grouped under the term psychoneuroses . A physician friend , in discussing the suggestion , said that no words that he knew would dispel or be ...
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... women the exercise of getting to church after prompt rising and dressing and then the occupation of mind with deep ... woman whose life seemed to be one long prayer , so entirely was every action guided by what she felt God would like ...
... women the exercise of getting to church after prompt rising and dressing and then the occupation of mind with deep ... woman whose life seemed to be one long prayer , so entirely was every action guided by what she felt God would like ...
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... women in which hundreds of young women are now being educated in the best sense of that word , - that is , not only having their minds stuffed with knowl- edge , but having their thinking powers aroused and , in Huxley's expressive ...
... women in which hundreds of young women are now being educated in the best sense of that word , - that is , not only having their minds stuffed with knowl- edge , but having their thinking powers aroused and , in Huxley's expressive ...
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... women of our time will be told properly . They hid themselves from publicity as sedulously as most people seek it . I think it one of the most precious privileges of life to have known a score of such women , East and West . Some of ...
... women of our time will be told properly . They hid themselves from publicity as sedulously as most people seek it . I think it one of the most precious privileges of life to have known a score of such women , East and West . Some of ...
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... women of prayer seldom suffer from nervous prostration in the ordinary sense of the word , and what is called that in them is very often the manifestation of some organic ailment which has not been recognized . As to the power of prayer ...
... women of prayer seldom suffer from nervous prostration in the ordinary sense of the word , and what is called that in them is very often the manifestation of some organic ailment which has not been recognized . As to the power of prayer ...
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Page 289 - ... tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 167 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of...
Page 289 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time.
Page 236 - But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 237 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 289 - That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 305 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 166 - AUSTERITY OF POETRY. That son of Italy who tried to blow ', Ere Dante came, the trump of sacred song, In his light youth amid a festal throng Sate with his bride to see a public show. Fair was the bride, and on her front did glow Youth like a star ; and what to youth belong — Gay raiment, sparkling gauds, elation strong. A prop gave way ! crash fell a platform ! lo, 1 Giacoponc di Todi.
Page 28 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 151 - ... so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.