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... conveyance of letters in this favoured country , which pursues its ceaseless progress by night and by day for the comfort and happiness of the community . IV . Remember , that a young lady's chest of 18 EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF.
... conveyance of letters in this favoured country , which pursues its ceaseless progress by night and by day for the comfort and happiness of the community . IV . Remember , that a young lady's chest of 18 EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF.
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Elizabeth Susannah Simmonds. IV . Remember , that a young lady's chest of drawers is sometimes taken as a pro- phetic criterion of her future ménage , and may be considered as no unapt re- presentation of the arrangement in her memory of ...
Elizabeth Susannah Simmonds. IV . Remember , that a young lady's chest of drawers is sometimes taken as a pro- phetic criterion of her future ménage , and may be considered as no unapt re- presentation of the arrangement in her memory of ...
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... remember that a pocket - handker- chief is the most disgusting and un- ladylike article of litter that can be exposed to view , which must often occur where there is no pocket . * It is also * In olden time it was thought characteristic ...
... remember that a pocket - handker- chief is the most disgusting and un- ladylike article of litter that can be exposed to view , which must often occur where there is no pocket . * It is also * In olden time it was thought characteristic ...
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... at the other whatever comes in its way ; and remember , never to throw those feet on the sofa which are just come out of the garden . A XII . Never remain engaged in a favourite employment longer 28 EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF.
... at the other whatever comes in its way ; and remember , never to throw those feet on the sofa which are just come out of the garden . A XII . Never remain engaged in a favourite employment longer 28 EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF.
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Elizabeth Susannah Simmonds. 98 and lange uve stool ar peliese is e yourself chilly the quiet comployine be the fire 1000 edures of colleet that Remember , pen without e.
Elizabeth Susannah Simmonds. 98 and lange uve stool ar peliese is e yourself chilly the quiet comployine be the fire 1000 edures of colleet that Remember , pen without e.
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Page 3 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 27 - ... life's highest prize her latest hour ; That hour, so late, is nimble in approach, That, like a post, comes on in full career : How swift the shuttle flies, that weaves thy shroud ! Where is the fable of thy former years ? Thrown down the gulf of time > as far from thee As they had ne'er been thine ; the day in hand, Like a bird struggling to get loose, is going...
Page 42 - Take care of small things, and great things will take care of themselves.
Page 29 - Never remain engaged in a favourite employment longer than the duties of the day will allow; and recollect that there is often more true diligence in leaving off than in beginning. Refrain, too, from taking up a book, or even a newspaper, merely because it happens to lie before you, though unattended by any circumstance to render it interesting, as it induces a desultory mode of reading, and enervates the mind.
Page 20 - Acquire a habit of folding or rolling up. Many a fine print or drawing has been ruined, many a cloak crumpled, and many a shawl trailed on the floor, for want of this timely neatness...
Page 18 - ... no time is so completely lost as in hunting for lost things ; but that is so much saved, which has been employed in providing a place for every article, and by that means enabled you to find it readily even in the dark. The necessity of a neat arrangement of letters, papers, and accounts, to...