The Duties, Advantages, Pleasures, and Sorrows of the Marriage Stateauthor, 1813 - 138 pages |
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... circumstance of his life is to give him torment or pleasure . When the affection is well placed , and supported by the considerations of duty , honour , and friendship , which are in the highest degree engaged in this alli- ance , there ...
... circumstance of his life is to give him torment or pleasure . When the affection is well placed , and supported by the considerations of duty , honour , and friendship , which are in the highest degree engaged in this alli- ance , there ...
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... circumstances of a new married couple , and the sub- ject of my letters are very favourable to poetry . Love elevates the mind , and gives a sort of dignity and grandeur to the thoughts , to which the language of po- etry is peculiarly ...
... circumstances of a new married couple , and the sub- ject of my letters are very favourable to poetry . Love elevates the mind , and gives a sort of dignity and grandeur to the thoughts , to which the language of po- etry is peculiarly ...
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... circumstance occurred . 6 My servant ( says Lavater ) asked me after dinner whether she should sweep my room . Yes , but you must not touch my books , nor my papers . This I spoke not with the gentle mild accent of a good heart ! No ! a ...
... circumstance occurred . 6 My servant ( says Lavater ) asked me after dinner whether she should sweep my room . Yes , but you must not touch my books , nor my papers . This I spoke not with the gentle mild accent of a good heart ! No ! a ...
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... circumstances which in them- selves are of a very trifling nature . It depends almost wholly upon the state of our own minds , whether the numerous occurrences of a domestic day shall af- ford us pleasure or sorrow . I have had ...
... circumstances which in them- selves are of a very trifling nature . It depends almost wholly upon the state of our own minds , whether the numerous occurrences of a domestic day shall af- ford us pleasure or sorrow . I have had ...
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... circumstances even of a sorrowful nature . So much depends upon the state of our temper , that we should take all pos- sible pains to render it sweet , and agree- able . This is not only of great import- ance to others , but to ...
... circumstances even of a sorrowful nature . So much depends upon the state of our temper , that we should take all pos- sible pains to render it sweet , and agree- able . This is not only of great import- ance to others , but to ...
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Page 44 - Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Page 40 - And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night because the sun was set ; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Page 7 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains. God is thy law ; thou, mine : to know no more, Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise 1 With thee conversing, I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Page 15 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; * but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Page 27 - The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
Page 43 - And the women said unto Naomi, "Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life and a nourisher of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.
Page 39 - And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
Page 80 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Page 40 - I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac ; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed: and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 3 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.