The Ladies Library: ... Written by a Lady. Published by Sir Richard Steele, 1. köideW. Strahan, 1772 |
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... hope to finish his courfe with glory , that lags and preffes not forward to obtain the prize ? There is not one Chriftian vrtue to which the vice of idleness is not entirely contrary ; faith , hope , charity , fear , vigilance , and ...
... hope to finish his courfe with glory , that lags and preffes not forward to obtain the prize ? There is not one Chriftian vrtue to which the vice of idleness is not entirely contrary ; faith , hope , charity , fear , vigilance , and ...
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... hope that human advice will have any influence where di- vine command has none . How far might our reflections run , on the good em- ployment of time in both fexes , and on the help's we may have in it . an He that is choice of his time ...
... hope that human advice will have any influence where di- vine command has none . How far might our reflections run , on the good em- ployment of time in both fexes , and on the help's we may have in it . an He that is choice of his time ...
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... hope to have good husbands if they have not wife ones ? And beauty without merit and virtue , is a bait for fools . To marry happily , a woman must marry prudently , and if the makes choice of a fop , fhe will not be the hap- pier , as ...
... hope to have good husbands if they have not wife ones ? And beauty without merit and virtue , is a bait for fools . To marry happily , a woman must marry prudently , and if the makes choice of a fop , fhe will not be the hap- pier , as ...
Page 71
... hope for from fuch a costly wife , is to be pitied , after he has a while been laughed at by the world . Husbands are difcouraged in the profecution of their bufinefs , when they fee the fruits of their induftry fo lavishly , to fil ...
... hope for from fuch a costly wife , is to be pitied , after he has a while been laughed at by the world . Husbands are difcouraged in the profecution of their bufinefs , when they fee the fruits of their induftry fo lavishly , to fil ...
Page 116
... more general , as in his epiftle to Timothy , " let women learn in filence , " and again , to " to be in filence . " I hope we shall not be accufed of ill- breeding , breeding , for fetting Scripture before the fex , and 116 MODESTY .
... more general , as in his epiftle to Timothy , " let women learn in filence , " and again , to " to be in filence . " I hope we shall not be accufed of ill- breeding , breeding , for fetting Scripture before the fex , and 116 MODESTY .
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Page 45 - 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 14 - Sodom and her daughters1," and indeed is the burial of a living man, an idle person being so useless to any purposes of God and man, that he is like one that is dead, unconcerned in the changes and necessities of the world ; and he only lives to spend his time, and eat the fruits of the earth : like a vermin or a wolf...
Page 13 - For we must remember that we have a great work to do, many enemies to conquer, many evils to prevent, much danger to run through, many difficulties to be mastered, many necessities to serve, and much good to do...
Page 90 - ... For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, passing through the street near her corner ; and he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: and, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Page 48 - Lay not up for yourfelves treafures upon earth, where moth and ruft doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and fteal...
Page 329 - ... made less heavy to them by the contemplation of their being laid out in state and honourably attended to the grave.
Page 80 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 274 - no one, who believes the Scriptures can doubt this." " And is not this," he said, " the very doctrine of the first part of the Creed ; ' that the Father is GOD, the Son is GOD, and the Holy Ghost is GOD; and yet they are not three GODS, but one GOD?
Page 260 - Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it : and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it : and if he have, that he speak it not again. Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.