Lectures to Young Ladies: Comprising Outlines and Applications of the Different Branches of Female Education, for the Use of Female Schools, and Private LibrariesCarter, Hendee & Company, 1833 - 308 pages |
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Page 157 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Page 226 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 22 - Not every one that saith, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Page 25 - To the weak he became as weak, that he might gain the weak : and was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some.
Page 265 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Page 294 - AT summer eve, when Heaven's ethereal bow Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below. Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, "Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky ? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear More sweet than all the landscape smiling near ?— 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Page 106 - The Pythagorean scale of numbers' was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents, new name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments.
Page 157 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 30 - When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee...
Page 32 - Oh that I had wings like a dove ! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
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| Title | Lectures to Young Ladies: Comprising Outlines and Applications of the Different Branches of Female Education, for the Use of Female Schools, and Private Libraries |
| Author | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps |
| Publisher | Carter, Hendee & Company, 1833 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Jun 2007 |
| Length | 308 pages |
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