Social Ethics and Society Duties: Thorough Education of Girls for Wives and Mothers and for ProfessionsEstes and Lauriat, 1892 - 310 páginas |
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... cause , whether that cause directly concern the inter- ests of women or not , does her share in thus lifting up the womanhood of the nation . And perhaps that other woman does even more for the same end whose whole time is rightly ...
... cause , whether that cause directly concern the inter- ests of women or not , does her share in thus lifting up the womanhood of the nation . And perhaps that other woman does even more for the same end whose whole time is rightly ...
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... causes vomiting , in very sensitive organisations . Every power , bodily and mental , is increased by " good spirits , " which is our name for a general emotional satisfaction . In exhilarating company , a large and varied dinner ...
... causes vomiting , in very sensitive organisations . Every power , bodily and mental , is increased by " good spirits , " which is our name for a general emotional satisfaction . In exhilarating company , a large and varied dinner ...
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... caused thereby partially incapacitates him for energetic activity , and perhaps brings on ill - health . Thus we see that the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is of pressing need ; and should the suggestions ...
... caused thereby partially incapacitates him for energetic activity , and perhaps brings on ill - health . Thus we see that the establishment of rules of right conduct on a scientific basis is of pressing need ; and should the suggestions ...
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... , whose kindliness of heart caused her to employ this means to gain her object , without wounding the feelings of her uncle . None but those whose disposition is described in the following couplet could WOMAN'S TASK . 31.
... , whose kindliness of heart caused her to employ this means to gain her object , without wounding the feelings of her uncle . None but those whose disposition is described in the following couplet could WOMAN'S TASK . 31.
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... causes have turned upon what are called trifles , or the absence of them . A word spoken or left unsaid at a critical moment may not only in- volve the peace of mind of another , but may influence the direction which that mind may ...
... causes have turned upon what are called trifles , or the absence of them . A word spoken or left unsaid at a critical moment may not only in- volve the peace of mind of another , but may influence the direction which that mind may ...
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able action asylum barque bear become better born brain bring called cause character child CLARA JESSUP MOORE cultivated culture cure daugh disease disorders dragon's teeth duty elective affinities ether evil existence experience faith feel force genius George Eliot girls give given happiness harmony heart HENRY MAUDSLEY Herbert Spencer heredity highest honour human husband idea influence inherited insane instruction Keely kind knowledge labour lives manners marriage married matter mental mind misery moral mother nature Nature's laws nervous never nurse organisation parents patient perfect physi physical physician possess power of sympathy race Robert Browning Rosicrucians says selfish sense slander society sorrow soul spirit suffering sympathetic sympathy taught teachers teaching things thought tion true truth universal Walter Bagehot wife woman women words writes young
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Página 147 - Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not — Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won : Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray ; Who, not content that former worth stand fast, Looks forward, persevering to the last, From well to better, daily self-surpast...
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Página 63 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 24 - I conceive it to be the business of Moral Science to deduce, from the laws of life and the conditions of existence, what kinds of action necessarily tend to produce happiness, and what kinds to produce unhappiness. Having done this, its deductions are to be recognized as laws of conduct ; and are to be conformed to irrespective of a direct estimation of happiness or misery.
Página 222 - ... until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved: they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own.
Página 108 - Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words...
Página 88 - The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
Página 55 - Sow an act, and you reap a Habit ; Sow a habit, and you reap a Character; Sow a character, and you reap a Destiny.
Página 41 - A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face ; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form : it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.