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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... every mark of attention , than when they were your equals ; left they afcribe your negligence to pride , and confider it as an infult offered to their fituation . " Lady Lady Mary . If any of my friends , my AND SINCERITY . 15.
... every mark of attention , than when they were your equals ; left they afcribe your negligence to pride , and confider it as an infult offered to their fituation . " Lady Lady Mary . If any of my friends , my AND SINCERITY . 15.
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... equal objects of his care , Each individual the undoubted heir Of future blifs , prepar'd with mighty love , For all the righteous , in the realms above ! * TUESDAY . On Orthography , and the Practical Use of AND SINCERITY . 19.
... equal objects of his care , Each individual the undoubted heir Of future blifs , prepar'd with mighty love , For all the righteous , in the realms above ! * TUESDAY . On Orthography , and the Practical Use of AND SINCERITY . 19.
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... equal propriety be applied to the Masculine and Feminine Gender ? Mentoria . You are perfectly right , as to the general idea . I fhall enumerate a few particular in- ftances ; which I hope , will enable you to form a competent ...
... equal propriety be applied to the Masculine and Feminine Gender ? Mentoria . You are perfectly right , as to the general idea . I fhall enumerate a few particular in- ftances ; which I hope , will enable you to form a competent ...
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... equal propriety to a flowing river . Lady Mary . I fhall alfo tell them what leffons we learn ; and enquire whether they are taught the fame . Mentoria . I am pleased , my dear Lady Mary , to find you are defirous to form a degree of ...
... equal propriety to a flowing river . Lady Mary . I fhall alfo tell them what leffons we learn ; and enquire whether they are taught the fame . Mentoria . I am pleased , my dear Lady Mary , to find you are defirous to form a degree of ...
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... equal advantage of exporting fuch commodities , which the foil or manufactures bring to perfection . I fhall not attempt to enumerate the particular Islands , but content myself with informing you , they are found in greatest abundance ...
... equal advantage of exporting fuch commodities , which the foil or manufactures bring to perfection . I fhall not attempt to enumerate the particular Islands , but content myself with informing you , they are found in greatest abundance ...
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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.