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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... knowledge - I mean cooking , sewing , sweeping , dusting , etc. When a woman is mistress of these , she is called capable , that good old word , heard oftener in New England than elsewhere , which carries with it a sweet savor of ...
... knowledge - I mean cooking , sewing , sweeping , dusting , etc. When a woman is mistress of these , she is called capable , that good old word , heard oftener in New England than elsewhere , which carries with it a sweet savor of ...
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... knowledge . Morally , the discipline of a good school tends directly to form the habits I mentioned above . The pupils are trained to steady industry and persever- ance , to scorn dishonest work , and to control temper . The girls who ...
... knowledge . Morally , the discipline of a good school tends directly to form the habits I mentioned above . The pupils are trained to steady industry and persever- ance , to scorn dishonest work , and to control temper . The girls who ...
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... knowledge , or whether , lying idly , as we say , on the sofa , we let our thoughts wander as they will , thought still goes on . Coming and going more rapidly than the shortest pendulum can swing , inter- weaving more subtly than the ...
... knowledge , or whether , lying idly , as we say , on the sofa , we let our thoughts wander as they will , thought still goes on . Coming and going more rapidly than the shortest pendulum can swing , inter- weaving more subtly than the ...
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... knowledge in educating her daughter , thereby becomes a benefactor to her country and her race . We all know that many a baby cuts all its first teeth without any trouble , noticeable nervous excitement , or derangement of any of the ...
... knowledge in educating her daughter , thereby becomes a benefactor to her country and her race . We all know that many a baby cuts all its first teeth without any trouble , noticeable nervous excitement , or derangement of any of the ...
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... its cradle , the room , its own moving fingers , its mother's face , are vast regions of unexplored knowledge . There is absolutely nothing , however small , which is common or customary , and , as she THE CULTURE OF THE BODY . 57.
... its cradle , the room , its own moving fingers , its mother's face , are vast regions of unexplored knowledge . There is absolutely nothing , however small , which is common or customary , and , as she THE CULTURE OF THE BODY . 57.
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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.