Advice to a wife on the management of herself |
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... things ! A woman , born with every perfection , to be full of bodily infirmities ! It was ordained by the Almighty that wives should be fruitful and multiply ! Surely there must be something wrong in the present system if they do not do ...
... things ! A woman , born with every perfection , to be full of bodily infirmities ! It was ordained by the Almighty that wives should be fruitful and multiply ! Surely there must be something wrong in the present system if they do not do ...
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... things , habit makes them so . Early rising , for instance , is not agreeable to the lazy , and to one fond of her bed ; but it is essentially necessary to sound health , and is in the end a pleasure . Exercise is troublesome to the ...
... things , habit makes them so . Early rising , for instance , is not agreeable to the lazy , and to one fond of her bed ; but it is essentially necessary to sound health , and is in the end a pleasure . Exercise is troublesome to the ...
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... things by their right names . Fashion is often- times but another name for suicide and for baby - slaugh- ter for " massacre of the innocents ! " God help the poor unfortunate little child whose mother is a votary of fashion , who ...
... things by their right names . Fashion is often- times but another name for suicide and for baby - slaugh- ter for " massacre of the innocents ! " God help the poor unfortunate little child whose mother is a votary of fashion , who ...
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... things more conducive to health than walking exercise ; and one advantage of our climate is , that there are but few days in the year in which , at some period of the day , it might not be taken . Walking — I mean a walk , not a stroll ...
... things more conducive to health than walking exercise ; and one advantage of our climate is , that there are but few days in the year in which , at some period of the day , it might not be taken . Walking — I mean a walk , not a stroll ...
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... thing is artificial , and disease and weakness , and even barrenness , follow as a matter of course . In proof of my assertion that this is an age of luxury , look at the present sumptuous style of living : carriages rolling about in ...
... thing is artificial , and disease and weakness , and even barrenness , follow as a matter of course . In proof of my assertion that this is an age of luxury , look at the present sumptuous style of living : carriages rolling about in ...
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Page 79 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 75 - A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.
Page 85 - The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink Together, dwarf'd or godlike, bond or free...
Page 200 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Page 66 - As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 57 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Page 56 - The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Page 86 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Page 60 - tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Page 77 - Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.