The English matron, by the author of 'The English gentlewoman'.

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Страница 141 - ... to the actions of a man that which the soul is to the body, or form to its matter, or the root to the tree, or the sun to the world, or the fountain to a river, or the base to a pillar : for without these the body is a dead trunk, the matter is sluggish, the tree is a block, the world is darkness, the river is quickly dry, the pillar rushes into flatness and ruin ; and the action is sinful, or unprofitable and vain.
Страница 157 - Some hours after he asked for me ; and when it was told him I was gone, he seemed to be troubled, and said, " Has my friend left me ? then I shall die shortly.
Страница 55 - She never crosseth her husband in the springtide of his unger, but stays till it be ebbing water. And then mildly she argues the matter, not so much to condemn him, as to acquit herself.
Страница 266 - It is not consistent with the plan of this work to enter at length into questions of temperament and just intonation.
Страница 22 - The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan.
Страница 119 - Give, looking for nothing again, that is, without consideration of future advantages : give to children, to old men, to the unthankful, and the dying, and to those you shall never see again ; for else your alms or courtesy is not charity, but traffic and merchandise : and be sure that you omit not to relieve the needs of your enemy and the injurious : for so possibly you may win him to yourself; but do you intend the winning him to God.
Страница 153 - Washington was to relinquish the happiness of his home to act a conspicuous part on the great theatre of the world.

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