English Girls: Their Place and PowerC. Kegan Paul & Company, 1879 - 147 pages |
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... and her cheerful acceptance of whatever labour falls to her lot gives to the most prosaic and common - place things a poetry and beauty all their own . Nor is her A helpfulness confined to needlework . With bright good - humour.
... and her cheerful acceptance of whatever labour falls to her lot gives to the most prosaic and common - place things a poetry and beauty all their own . Nor is her A helpfulness confined to needlework . With bright good - humour.
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... things " he muses when some unusual strain makes him for the moment irresolute , but the certainty that , after all , Mattie's clear reasoning has truth in it , and the consciousness that her gentle love is too precious to be wounded ...
... things " he muses when some unusual strain makes him for the moment irresolute , but the certainty that , after all , Mattie's clear reasoning has truth in it , and the consciousness that her gentle love is too precious to be wounded ...
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... things " her Lord and Master has to say to her . " We need not bid for cloister'd cell , Our neighbour and our work farewell , Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky . The trivial round , the common task ...
... things " her Lord and Master has to say to her . " We need not bid for cloister'd cell , Our neighbour and our work farewell , Nor strive to wind ourselves too high For sinful man beneath the sky . The trivial round , the common task ...
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... thing than vanity - pity . And be sure of this , that although in a truly Christian land every young girl would be dressed ... things you set yourself , with all the strength of your youth and womanhood , to serve His AT HOME . 15.
... thing than vanity - pity . And be sure of this , that although in a truly Christian land every young girl would be dressed ... things you set yourself , with all the strength of your youth and womanhood , to serve His AT HOME . 15.
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... things , devolves upon herself as daughter or sister of the house . The late Dr George Wilson , of Edinburgh , wrote thus to his sister- " You tell me in your very welcome letter that you dig assiduously in your garden . Well , Jessie ...
... things , devolves upon herself as daughter or sister of the house . The late Dr George Wilson , of Edinburgh , wrote thus to his sister- " You tell me in your very welcome letter that you dig assiduously in your garden . Well , Jessie ...
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Page 138 - Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 138 - She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships, she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens.
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