The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G. P. Putnam's, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... society , these should all be unknown drinks . The time will come soon enough , when the demands of adult life will create a necessity for these indispensable accompani- ments of civilization ; but before the time when the girl enters ...
... society , these should all be unknown drinks . The time will come soon enough , when the demands of adult life will create a necessity for these indispensable accompani- ments of civilization ; but before the time when the girl enters ...
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... society makes upon its women ? Are there any girls in the world so ready to rush headlong into all kinds of exercise , mental or physical , which may be recommended to them , as our American girls ? It is a pity that , to balance our ...
... society makes upon its women ? Are there any girls in the world so ready to rush headlong into all kinds of exercise , mental or physical , which may be recommended to them , as our American girls ? It is a pity that , to balance our ...
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... society , its sanctity forever missed . The temple has been invaded , its white floors trodden by feet from muddy alleys , the gods thrown down . Is not the temple as much ruined when this profanation has been accomplished , as if the ...
... society , its sanctity forever missed . The temple has been invaded , its white floors trodden by feet from muddy alleys , the gods thrown down . Is not the temple as much ruined when this profanation has been accomplished , as if the ...
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... society . When our women are better educated them- selves , their righteous indignation will banish forever from all conversation in which they have a part , the fash- ionable jests on subjects which do not admit of jest , and the ...
... society . When our women are better educated them- selves , their righteous indignation will banish forever from all conversation in which they have a part , the fash- ionable jests on subjects which do not admit of jest , and the ...
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... society , the very worst kind of reading for a child - stories " whose excit- ing pages delight in painting the love of the sexes for each other , and its sensual phases . " And the mothers do not know what they are reading ; and the ...
... society , the very worst kind of reading for a child - stories " whose excit- ing pages delight in painting the love of the sexes for each other , and its sensual phases . " And the mothers do not know what they are reading ; and the ...
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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.