The Prose Workd of Mrs. Ellis: The women of England. The daughters of England. The wives of England. The mothers of EnglandLangley, 1844 |
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admiration affection ance asso attention beauty believe calculated called cation character cheerfulness child Christian cial circumstances comfort conduct consequently consider conversation cultivation daugh domestic duty early endeavor enjoy enjoyment eral especially evil exer exercise existence faults feeling female friends give habits happiness heart household human husband important impressions individual indulgence influence innu intel interest kind lence less live look manner marriage married means ment mind mistress moral character morning calls mother nature neglect ness never object observation pain parents peculiar perhaps persons portunity principle quired reason regard religion religious render rience scarcely selfish servants sion social society sometimes speak spect sphere spirit suffering tain taste temptation thing thought tion tivate treme trifling true truth vidual wife wish woman women of England young ladies young women youth
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95 ページ - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
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58 ページ - For, after all, beauty depends more upon the movement of the face, than upon the form of the features when at rest ; and thus, a countenance habitually under the influence of amiable feelings, acquires a beauty of the highest order, from the frequency with which such feelings are the originating causes of the movement or expressions which stamp their character upon it. Who has not waited for the first opening of the lips of a celebrated belle, to see whether her claims .would be supported by
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34 ページ - Among the changes introduced by modern taste, it is not the least striking, that all the daughters of trades-people, when sent to school, are no longer girls, but young ladies. The linen-draper whose worthy consort occupies her daily post behind the counter, receives her child from Mrs.
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104 ページ - ... scholarship, or in mathematical proficiency, they are actually inferior to them in variety of information, in correctness of taste, and in general maturity of understanding ; as well as in propriety of conduct, in self-government, in steadiness and elevation of principle, and in force and depth of feeling. With young men of ingenuous tempers, this consciousness of their sisters...