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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... possible by means of food and sleep . Clothing , too , properly belongs under this division ; for , were it not for this , the heat of the body would often be carried off faster than it could be gen- erated , and the destructive process ...
... possible by means of food and sleep . Clothing , too , properly belongs under this division ; for , were it not for this , the heat of the body would often be carried off faster than it could be gen- erated , and the destructive process ...
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... possible , the growing girl should have her dinner in the middle of the day . The exigencies of city life make this arrangement in some cases inconvenient , and yet inconvenience is less often than is popularly supposed synonymous with ...
... possible , the growing girl should have her dinner in the middle of the day . The exigencies of city life make this arrangement in some cases inconvenient , and yet inconvenience is less often than is popularly supposed synonymous with ...
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... possible , puts a stop to the expenditure of nerve cells , and draws on the funds de- rived from the Cinchona forests of South America and the iron mountains of Missouri , to make new deposits on our account ; and when the matter is ...
... possible , puts a stop to the expenditure of nerve cells , and draws on the funds de- rived from the Cinchona forests of South America and the iron mountains of Missouri , to make new deposits on our account ; and when the matter is ...
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... and added to these , girls in idleness , and left to amuse themselves , are often in such places thrown into contact with persons of both sexes , whose conversation is the worst possible in its 66 THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS .
... and added to these , girls in idleness , and left to amuse themselves , are often in such places thrown into contact with persons of both sexes , whose conversation is the worst possible in its 66 THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS .
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... possible in its effect on mind and body . * * But , according to the general principle of education , we must not repress imagination in one direction without furnishing it some rational food in another ; for educa- tion , as has been ...
... possible in its effect on mind and body . * * But , according to the general principle of education , we must not repress imagination in one direction without furnishing it some rational food in another ; for educa- tion , as has been ...
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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.