Mentoria, Or, The Young Ladies Instructor: In Familiar Conversations on Moral and Entertaining Subjects : Calculated to Improve Young Minds, in the Essential, as Well as Ornamental, Parts of Female Education |
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... youth ; That unaffuming worth will ever find A warm reception , in a gen'rous mind ! Lady Mary . My dear Mentoria , I suppose you will now give give fome directions , how the different letters . are 30 ON ORTHOGRAPHY , AND.
... youth ; That unaffuming worth will ever find A warm reception , in a gen'rous mind ! Lady Mary . My dear Mentoria , I suppose you will now give give fome directions , how the different letters . are 30 ON ORTHOGRAPHY , AND.
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... suppose , you will now tell us what a Promontory is . Mentoria . A Promontory is a hill or point of land , which stretches itself over the fea ; and is often called a Cape . Lady Louifu . What is a Mountain , my good Mentoria ? I know ...
... suppose , you will now tell us what a Promontory is . Mentoria . A Promontory is a hill or point of land , which stretches itself over the fea ; and is often called a Cape . Lady Louifu . What is a Mountain , my good Mentoria ? I know ...
Page 135
... suppose , she was a woman of an amiable difpofition , and exemplary conduct ; as a lamb is an emblem of innocence . We are also to imagine , from the kind treatment beftowed on the lamb , that Uriah was a tender husband , and afforded ...
... suppose , she was a woman of an amiable difpofition , and exemplary conduct ; as a lamb is an emblem of innocence . We are also to imagine , from the kind treatment beftowed on the lamb , that Uriah was a tender husband , and afforded ...
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... suppose they are ftars , my dear Men- toria ? Mentoria . They are fixed ftars , because they always preferve the fame diftances , and are fituated in that part of the Heavens called the Zodiac , which is the space where the fun and ...
... suppose they are ftars , my dear Men- toria ? Mentoria . They are fixed ftars , because they always preferve the fame diftances , and are fituated in that part of the Heavens called the Zodiac , which is the space where the fun and ...
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... suppose . Mentoria . Not in the leaft , as Circumference means to go entirely round an object , and Diameter across it , which makes a very effential diffe- rence in the dimenfions . It may be useful to inform you , that Magnitude means ...
... suppose . Mentoria . Not in the leaft , as Circumference means to go entirely round an object , and Diameter across it , which makes a very effential diffe- rence in the dimenfions . It may be useful to inform you , that Magnitude means ...
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againſt alfo alſo Amulius attention becauſe beſt bleffings called caufe cauſe circumftance confequence confifts converfation courfe courſe darkneſs dear Lady Louifa dear Lady Mary dear Madam dear Mentoria defire deſerve duty earth endeavour Epicene exprefs faid fame fcience feem fenfe fentiments fervice feven fhall fhould fide fignifies fincerity firft fituation fome foon friends frigid zone ftate fubject fuch fuppofe greateſt hiftory hope houſe Induſtry inftance inftructions Lady Lady Louifa leaft leffon lefs Lord George Lycurgus Mark Antony means ment mind moft moſt muſt myſelf nature neceffary never notwithſtanding Numitor obfervations Parable perfons perform pleaſed pleaſure poffefs poffible praiſe Pray prefent produce puniſhment purpoſe purſue purſuits reafon requeſt reſpect Romulus ROMULUS and REMUS Ruffia ſenſe ſhall Spartan ſpeak ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion toria ufually underſtand uſeful virtue whilft whofe wiſh word yourſelf zone
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Page 133 - ... of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come unto him.
Page 90 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 204 - Let your light fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Page 63 - Father of light and life, thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 132 - And the LORD sent Nathan unto David. And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city ; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe...
Page 178 - Aries the Ram, Taurus the Bull, Gemini the Twins, Cancer the Crab, Leo the Lion, Virgo the Virgin, Libra the Balance, Scorpio the Scorpion, Sagittarius the Archer, Capricornus the Goat, Aquarius the Waterbearer, and Pisces the Fishes...
Page 124 - ... the ftranger that is within thy gates. For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day: wherefore the Lord bleffed the feventh day, and hallowed it.
Page 64 - Heavens ! what a goodly profpeft fpreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and fpires,, And glittering towns, and gilded dreams, till all The ftretching landfcape into fmoke decays!
Page 65 - What if lhe foot, ordain'd the duft to tread, Or hand, to toil, afpir'd to be the head ? What if the head, the eye. or ear, repin'd To ferve mere engines to the ruling mind? Juft as abfurd for any part to claim To be another, in this gen'ral frame: Juft as abfurd, to mourn the tafks or pains, The great directing MIND OF ALL Ordains.
Page 120 - Saint of England, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, St. David of Wales, St.