 But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world : it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure : she embarks her whole soul...  Littell's Living Age - Page 4571863Full view - About this book
 | 1834 - 428 lehte
...world's thought, and dominion over his fellow men. Bat woman's whole life is a history of the (flections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; Hi? there her averice geeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 lehte
...fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow men. But a woman s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world : it is there her ambition strives for empires; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure... | |
 | Silas Jones - 1836 - 362 lehte
...object of their devotion, — a book or a domestic animal. " Woman's whole life," says Irving, " is a history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. She embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,... | |
 | Camilla Needham - 1838 - 334 lehte
...lovely star in his firmament. But to a woman it is her sun — her Hie is a history of her love. " She embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart." In a life of comparative seclusion, with only her own thoughts to interest, she can have no consolation,... | |
 | 1839 - 508 lehte
...suffered to preponderate. Thus, speaking of the love of woman, the author of the Sketch-Book says, "she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she...is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart." Shakspeare apostrophises it thus — :l'O, most potential love! vow, bond, or space, In thee hath neither... | |
 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1840 - 212 lehte
...bellishment of his early life, or a song piped in the interval of the acts, but a woman's whole life is a history of the affections; the heart is her world;...hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on a venture, she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and if shipwrecked, her case is... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 458 lehte
...history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it it there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. She embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection...is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart." OF THE LAWS CONCERNING DIVORCE. Mr. Walker's chapter on divorce is nearly all made up of quotations... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 452 lehte
...wife of the faithless husband are scarcely less disastrous. " Woman's whole life," saya Irving, " is a history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition seeks for hidden treasures. She embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 lehte
...yesterday. 5. The love of truth and goodness, is the beat passion we can indulge. 6. A woman?a life, is the history of the affections ; the heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire, and there she seeks for untold treasures. 7. The best and noblest conquest, is that of reason over... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 396 lehte
...good' ness, is the best passion we can indulge. 6. A teaman's life, is the history of the affec lions ; the heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire, and then she seeks for untold treasures 7. The best and noblest conquest, is that of reason cvci our... | |
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