A Manual for Young Ladies: With Hints on Love, Courtship, Marriage, and the True Objects of Life. Supplementary to Kent's New Commentary: a Manual for Young Men |
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... wealth and enjoyment . The picture we have painted is a dark one ; how could it be other- wise ? Yet we have not shaded it as dark as the real facts would make it . There may be such a thing as making it too sombre , and the timid ones ...
... wealth and enjoyment . The picture we have painted is a dark one ; how could it be other- wise ? Yet we have not shaded it as dark as the real facts would make it . There may be such a thing as making it too sombre , and the timid ones ...
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... wealth by the millions , cannot purchase it , and they are poor without it , poor- er than the humblest cottager who works for his daily bread , and is thankful that he can earn it with his hands . Persons destitute of all resources of ...
... wealth by the millions , cannot purchase it , and they are poor without it , poor- er than the humblest cottager who works for his daily bread , and is thankful that he can earn it with his hands . Persons destitute of all resources of ...
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... WEALTHY STOCK RAISER DID HIS COURTING . 66 One of the largest land owners of Illinois , a great stock - raiser and a widower , was out buying cattle . One night he stopped at the house of a respectable widow lady and remained over night ...
... WEALTHY STOCK RAISER DID HIS COURTING . 66 One of the largest land owners of Illinois , a great stock - raiser and a widower , was out buying cattle . One night he stopped at the house of a respectable widow lady and remained over night ...
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... WEALTHY YOUNG LADY'S COURTSHIP . A young lady was reported to be very wealthy , having a large for- tune in her own right . Applicants for her hand were numerous . Many of them were not slow or backward in pressing their suits . To the ...
... WEALTHY YOUNG LADY'S COURTSHIP . A young lady was reported to be very wealthy , having a large for- tune in her own right . Applicants for her hand were numerous . Many of them were not slow or backward in pressing their suits . To the ...
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... wealthy , who would not fur- nish the absolute necessities of the family . Their miserly mean- ness was contemptible . There are men who keep their wife and children continually on the point of starvation . They buy choice bits , and ...
... wealthy , who would not fur- nish the absolute necessities of the family . Their miserly mean- ness was contemptible . There are men who keep their wife and children continually on the point of starvation . They buy choice bits , and ...
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Page 33 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before...
Page 120 - Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever ; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long : And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song.
Page 33 - Across the threshold led, And every tear kissed off as soon as shed, His house she enters — there to be a light Shining within, when all without is night ; A guardian- angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing...
Page 38 - FROM the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book Unfold!
Page 94 - Only the waving wing changes and brightens ; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens ; Play the sweet keys, wouldst thou keep them in tune...
Page 92 - Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ; Let the dead past bury its dead ; Act, act in the living present, Heart within, and God o'erhead.
Page 86 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 79 - I can't work!" that was the burden of all wise complaining among men. It is, after all, the one unhappiness of a man. That he cannot work; that he cannot get his destiny as a man fulfilled. Behold, the day is passing swiftly over, our life is passing swiftly over; and the night cometh when no man can work. The night once come, our happiness, our unhappiness, — it is all abolished; vanished, clean gone; a thing that has been: "not of the slightest consequence...
Page 98 - PAUSE not to dream of the future before us ; Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us ; Hark, how Creation's deep, musical chorus, Unintermitting, goes up into Heaven ! Never the ocean wave falters in flowing ; Never the little seed stops in its growing ; More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing, Till from its nourishing stem it is riven. " Labor is worship ! " — the robin is singing ; " Labor is worship ! " — the wild bee is ringing : Listen ! that eloquent whisper upspringing...
Page 117 - Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken, Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown, Shall pass on to ages, — all about me forgotten, Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done.