The American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes |
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Page vii
... ladies should early learn to be systematic and economical . - Pages 247-254 . XX . HEALTH OF MIND . Intimate connection between the body and mind - Brain excited by im- proper stimulants taken into the stomach - Mental faculties then ...
... ladies should early learn to be systematic and economical . - Pages 247-254 . XX . HEALTH OF MIND . Intimate connection between the body and mind - Brain excited by im- proper stimulants taken into the stomach - Mental faculties then ...
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... lady , " is almost synony- mous with " to be waited on , and do no work . ” It is the earnest desire of the authors of this volume to make plain the falsity of this growing popular feeling , and to show how much happier and more ...
... lady , " is almost synony- mous with " to be waited on , and do no work . ” It is the earnest desire of the authors of this volume to make plain the falsity of this growing popular feeling , and to show how much happier and more ...
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... ladies and gentlemen spending half the night in them ! In 1861 , I visited a legislative hall , the legislature being in session . I remained half an hour in the most impure air I ever breathed . Our school - houses are , some of them ...
... ladies and gentlemen spending half the night in them ! In 1861 , I visited a legislative hall , the legislature being in session . I remained half an hour in the most impure air I ever breathed . Our school - houses are , some of them ...
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... lady who never had any charge of the sick ; who never took any care of an infant ; who never obtained information on these subjects from books , or from the ex- perience of others ; in short , with little or no preparation , has found ...
... lady who never had any charge of the sick ; who never took any care of an infant ; who never obtained information on these subjects from books , or from the ex- perience of others ; in short , with little or no preparation , has found ...
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... ladies , than among those in European countries . It has been stated to the writer , by an intelligent traveler who had visited Mexico , that it was rare to meet an indi- vidual with even a tolerable set of teeth , and that almost every ...
... ladies , than among those in European countries . It has been stated to the writer , by an intelligent traveler who had visited Mexico , that it was rare to meet an indi- vidual with even a tolerable set of teeth , and that almost every ...
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Page 143 - Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no ^ flesh while the world standeth, * lest I make my brother to offend.
Page 461 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry, " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !" The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.
Page 460 - To stroke his azure neck, or to 'receive The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue. All creatures worship man, and all mankind One Lord, one Father. Error has no place: • That creeping pestilence is driven away; The breath of heaven has chased it.
Page 460 - O scenes surpassing fable, and yet true, Scenes of accomplished bliss ; which who can see, Though but in distant prospect, and not feel His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ? Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty; the reproach Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field Laughs with abundance ; and the land, once lean, Or fertile only in its own disgrace, Exults to see its thistly curse repealed ; The various seasons woven into one, And that one season an...
Page 439 - And he' sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
Page 438 - But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 460 - And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God...
Page 438 - If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye ought also to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 300 - God had called him to; and the consideration of the sacred declaration, " that he who does not provide for his own household, has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel," had such an impressive effect on his mind, that it almost deprived him of his senses.
Page 210 - In America, where the privileges of birth never existed, and where riches confer no peculiar rights on their possessors, men unacquainted with each other are very ready to frequent the same places, and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident they neither seek nor avoid intercourse; their manner is therefore natural, frank, and open...