The Education of American Girls: Considered in a Series of EssaysAnna Callender Brackett G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1874 - 401 páginas |
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... continual agitation is not primarily of her creating . It is simply the tendency of the age , of which it is only the index . It would be as much out of place to blame the weights of a clock for the moving of the hands , while , acted ...
... continual agitation is not primarily of her creating . It is simply the tendency of the age , of which it is only the index . It would be as much out of place to blame the weights of a clock for the moving of the hands , while , acted ...
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... continual death that we 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 ...
... continual death that we 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 ...
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... continual drafts made upon it , resulting from insufficient clothing , and it will be able to assume duties to which before it found itself inadequate . Some ex- ceptions must be made to this statement in the case of those to whose ...
... continual drafts made upon it , resulting from insufficient clothing , and it will be able to assume duties to which before it found itself inadequate . Some ex- ceptions must be made to this statement in the case of those to whose ...
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... gives strength ; and by judicious exercise is meant that in which the parts exer- cised are not too steadily on the strain , and that which is regular . For instance , continual standing in one spot 46 THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS .
... gives strength ; and by judicious exercise is meant that in which the parts exer- cised are not too steadily on the strain , and that which is regular . For instance , continual standing in one spot 46 THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS .
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... continual tension prevents the free passage of the blood , and the uniform- ity of the circulation is destroyed . Continual standing , in the teaching profession at least , has broken down many a man as well as many a woman . With women ...
... continual tension prevents the free passage of the blood , and the uniform- ity of the circulation is destroyed . Continual standing , in the teaching profession at least , has broken down many a man as well as many a woman . With women ...
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Página 97 - 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 120 - 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 341 - HALF-HOURS WITH THE STARS: a Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations. Showing in 12 Maps the position of the principal Star-Groups night after night throughout the year. With Introduction and a separate Explanation of each Map. True for every Year.
Página 28 - 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 99 - 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 58 - KARL FRIEDRICH ROSENKRANZ, Doctor of Theology and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Konigsberg. Translated from the German by ANNA C. BRACKETT.
Página 342 - 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 341 - HALF-HOURS WITH THE TELESCOPE : a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a means of Amusement and Instruction.
Página 91 - ... 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 328 - Patient endurance Attaineth to all things ; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.