The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G. P. Putnam's, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... live under pecu- liar conditions of descent , of climate , of government , and are hence very different from their European sisters . No testimony is more concurrent than that of observant foreigners on this point . More nervous , more ...
... live under pecu- liar conditions of descent , of climate , of government , and are hence very different from their European sisters . No testimony is more concurrent than that of observant foreigners on this point . More nervous , more ...
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... live at all . But continual death calls for con- tinual creation , the continual destruction for continual repair , and this is rendered possible by means of food and sleep . Clothing , too , properly belongs under this division ; for ...
... live at all . But continual death calls for con- tinual creation , the continual destruction for continual repair , and this is rendered possible by means of food and sleep . Clothing , too , properly belongs under this division ; for ...
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... lives in the house , will be expected to show the evil effects more than the men and 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 ...
... lives in the house , will be expected to show the evil effects more than the men and 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 ...
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... live in this climate , acquire the ruddy glow of the Eng- lishwoman or the German , or the rounded outlines of the nations of Southern Europe . Clothing . With the external form of the dress as to cut , trimming , or color , this essay ...
... live in this climate , acquire the ruddy glow of the Eng- lishwoman or the German , or the rounded outlines of the nations of Southern Europe . Clothing . With the external form of the dress as to cut , trimming , or color , this essay ...
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... lives , as a continual atmosphere , and she will have no need to ask herself whether it is needful or al- lowable to add much cause for activity to that brain , for , at least , the first seven years of its life . If mothers could only ...
... lives , as a continual atmosphere , and she will have no need to ask herself whether it is needful or al- lowable to add much cause for activity to that brain , for , at least , the first seven years of its life . If mothers could only ...
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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.