Letters on the Improvement of the Mind: Addressed to a Young Lady ...J. Walter, 1778 |
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Strana 106 - ... forget what is due to the elder part of the company, nor, by whispering and laughing apart, give them cause to suspect, what is too often true, that they themselves are the subjects of your mirth. It is so shocking an outrage against society, to talk of or laugh at any person in his own presence, that one would think it could only be committed by the vulgar. I am sorry, however, to say that...
Strana 8 - Whatever faults he may have they will generally be treated with lenity. He will find an advocate in every human heart. His errors will be lamented rather than abhorred; and his virtues will be viewed in the fairest point of light. His good...
Strana 116 - ... body and improving the carriage, the second by opening a large field of entertainment and improvement for the mind. I believe there are more agreeable books of female literature in French than in any other language...
Strana 67 - ... have known one of these procrastinators disoblige and gradually lose very valuable friends, by delaying to write to them so long, that, having no good excuse to offer, she could not get courage enough to write at all, and dropped their correspondence entirely. The neatness and order of your house and furniture is a part of economy which will greatly affect your appearance and character, and to which you must yourself give attention...
Strana 71 - It is with a family, as with a commonwealth ; the more numerous and luxurious it becomes, the more difficult it is to govern it properly.— Though the great are placed above the little attentions and employments to which...
Strana 223 - It is not from want of capacity that so many women are such trifling insipid companions, so ill qualified for the friendship and conversation of a- sensible man, or for the task of governing and instructing a family ; it is much oftener from the neglect of exercising the talents...
Strana 108 - ... as that of ridicule. The natural effects of years, which all hope to attain, and the infirmities of the body, which none can prevent, are surely, of all others, the most improper objects of mirth. There are subjects enough that are innocent, and on which you may freely indulge the vivacity of your spirits ; for I would not condemn you to perpetual seriousness...
Strana 82 - Shall not the dew assuage the heat? so is a word better than a gift. Lo, is not a word better than a gift? but both are with a gracious man.
Strana 10 - who knoweth whereof we are made," and of what we are capable. It is true, we are not all equally happy in our dispositions; but human virtue consists in cherishing and cultivating every good inclination, and in checking and subduing every propensity to evil. If you had been born with a bad temper, it might have been made a good one, at least with regard to its outward effects, by education, reason, and principle : and, though you are so happy as to have a good one while young, do not suppose it will...
Strana 5 - Within the circle of her own family and dependants lies her sphere of action — the scene of almost all those tasks and trials, which must determine her character, and her fate, here and hereafter. Reflect, for a moment, how much the happiness of her husband, children, and servants, must depend on her temper, and you will see that the greatest good or evil, which she ever may have in her power to do, may arise from her correcting or indulging its infirmities.