The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G. P. Putnam's, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... boys , who do not . The practical suggestions on this point are apparent to every one . One more thing which the body , to be healthy , de- mands for food is Sun - light , that invaluable medicine for all forms of nervous disease ...
... boys , who do not . The practical suggestions on this point are apparent to every one . One more thing which the body , to be healthy , de- mands for food is Sun - light , that invaluable medicine for all forms of nervous disease ...
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... boy becomes a man and the girl a woman , the physical system pursues the even tenor of development , broken only by the two marked advances of the cutting of the first and second teeth . But now , the strength of the general system is ...
... boy becomes a man and the girl a woman , the physical system pursues the even tenor of development , broken only by the two marked advances of the cutting of the first and second teeth . But now , the strength of the general system is ...
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... boys . The boy is left more to his own devices , but the girl must be made to contrib- ute more to the general amusement of the family , and she must learn " to make herself useful . " It is true that to be of service to others , in a ...
... boys . The boy is left more to his own devices , but the girl must be made to contrib- ute more to the general amusement of the family , and she must learn " to make herself useful . " It is true that to be of service to others , in a ...
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... boys when the half - conscious and just awakening spirit is , as it were , casting around in every direction for a some one , they know not who ; t and if at this time the young girl * Plato , Rep . , Book III . " The great mental ...
... boys when the half - conscious and just awakening spirit is , as it were , casting around in every direction for a some one , they know not who ; t and if at this time the young girl * Plato , Rep . , Book III . " The great mental ...
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... boys , to whom the last stage of education is to be had for the asking , come to her in vain for sympathy and appreciation , to say nothing of the husband , from all understanding of whose rational thought she finds herself barred out ...
... boys , to whom the last stage of education is to be had for the asking , come to her in vain for sympathy and appreciation , to say nothing of the husband , from all understanding of whose rational thought she finds herself barred out ...
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Página 144 - I see thee old and formal, fitted to thy petty part, With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart. "They were dangerous guides the feelings — she herself was not exempt — Truly, she herself had suffer'd" — Perish in thy self-contempt ! Overlive it — lower yet — be happy!
Página 167 - Neither from a stranger's hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
Página 29 - Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Página 146 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Página 61 - KARL FRIEDRICH ROSENKRANZ, Doctor of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konigsberg. Translated from the German by ANNA C. BRACKETT.
Página 18 - Gymnastic as well as music should begin in early years; the training in it should be careful and should continue through life. Now my belief is, — and this is a matter upon which I should like to have your opinion...
Página 117 - ... laugh By precept only, and shed tears by rule. Thy Art be Nature ; the live current quaff, And let the groveller sip his stagnant pool, In fear that else, when Critics grave and cool Have killed him, Scorn should write his epitaph. How does the Meadow-flower its bloom unfold ? Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and, in that freedom, bold ; And so the grandeur of the Forest-tree Comes not by casting in a formal mould, But from its own divine vitality.