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Would not the same time be better spent in the open air and the sunshine , than
in - doors , with cramped fingers and bent back over the knitting - needles ? Of
Sewing , nearly the same might be said , since the invention of machines for the ...
Would not the same time be better spent in the open air and the sunshine , than
in - doors , with cramped fingers and bent back over the knitting - needles ? Of
Sewing , nearly the same might be said , since the invention of machines for the ...
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The girls who leave school so trained , though they may know nothing of cooking
or housekeeping , will become infinitely better cooks and housekeepers , as soon
as they have a motive for doing so , than the uneducated woman , who has ...
The girls who leave school so trained , though they may know nothing of cooking
or housekeeping , will become infinitely better cooks and housekeepers , as soon
as they have a motive for doing so , than the uneducated woman , who has ...
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If the children are hungry enough to eat dry bread , they can have as much as
they want at any time ; if they are not , they are far better off without anything . "
These are the plainest rules of Physiology , and yet how few of the girls around
us are ...
If the children are hungry enough to eat dry bread , they can have as much as
they want at any time ; if they are not , they are far better off without anything . "
These are the plainest rules of Physiology , and yet how few of the girls around
us are ...
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... and the energy of the digestive organs is wasted in working upon material
which , if it does not irritate and inflamne , is at least of no economic value , and is
simply rejected by the system ; or , worse still , in default of better , it is absorbed
28 ...
... and the energy of the digestive organs is wasted in working upon material
which , if it does not irritate and inflamne , is at least of no economic value , and is
simply rejected by the system ; or , worse still , in default of better , it is absorbed
28 ...
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still , in default of better , it is absorbed , and the whole blood becomes poisoned .
Sometimes our girls do not cat often enough . For instance , a girl who , after tea ,
has been obliged to employ her brain in unusually hard work , inight probably ...
still , in default of better , it is absorbed , and the whole blood becomes poisoned .
Sometimes our girls do not cat often enough . For instance , a girl who , after tea ,
has been obliged to employ her brain in unusually hard work , inight probably ...
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THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS. CONSIDERED IN A SERIES OF ESSAYS. ANNA C. BRACKETT Vista completa - 1874 |
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Página 94 - 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 114 - 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.
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Página 94 - 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 60 - KARL FRIEDRICH ROSENKRANZ, Doctor of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konigsberg. Translated from the German by ANNA C. BRACKETT.
Página 352 - London. 8. ACOUSTICS, LIGHT AND HEAT. By William Lees, AM, Lecturer on Physics, Edinburgh. 9. MAGNETISM AND ELECTRICITY. By John Angell, Senior Science Master, Grammar School, Manchester. 10. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. By Dr. WB Kemshead, FRAS, Dulwich College, London. 11. ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. By W. Marshall Watts, D.Sc., (Lond.,) Grammar School, Giggleswick. 12. GEOLOGY. By WS Davis, LL.D., Derby.
Página 351 - HALF-HOURS WITH THE TELESCOPE : a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a means of Amusement and Instruction.
Página 80 - ... 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.
Página 338 - Patient endurance Attaineth to all things ; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.