The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts. By the Author of The Whole Duty of Man, &cPrinted at the Theater, 1713 - 270 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 7
... Vertue , could have but half a Happiness , as failing on the part of their Wives . But waving thefe reflections , Ifball fix only on the Per- fonal Accomplishments of the Sex , and peculiarly that which is the most prin- cipal Endowment ...
... Vertue , could have but half a Happiness , as failing on the part of their Wives . But waving thefe reflections , Ifball fix only on the Per- fonal Accomplishments of the Sex , and peculiarly that which is the most prin- cipal Endowment ...
الصفحة 7
... Vertue , that tho ' the Philofo- pher made it one of his folemn acknow- ledgements to God , that he had made him a Man , not a Woman : yet I think Christian Women have now reason e- nough to invert that form , and to thank God that he ...
... Vertue , that tho ' the Philofo- pher made it one of his folemn acknow- ledgements to God , that he had made him a Man , not a Woman : yet I think Christian Women have now reason e- nough to invert that form , and to thank God that he ...
الصفحة 7
... Vertue and Piety , by what others have attain'd to . I fhall not fetch examples of Morality from heathen Women , because I am now upon an higher strain ; ( yet many fuch might be brought to the reproach of many Women , who pretending to ...
... Vertue and Piety , by what others have attain'd to . I fhall not fetch examples of Morality from heathen Women , because I am now upon an higher strain ; ( yet many fuch might be brought to the reproach of many Women , who pretending to ...
الصفحة 7
... with fome Specimen of ancient Vertue . Nay , to Speak an impartial truth , ' tis not to be denied , but the reputation of Reli gion is more kept up by Women than 1 Men Men , many of this Sex countenancing it by their The Preface .
... with fome Specimen of ancient Vertue . Nay , to Speak an impartial truth , ' tis not to be denied , but the reputation of Reli gion is more kept up by Women than 1 Men Men , many of this Sex countenancing it by their The Preface .
الصفحة 7
... Vertue which would be both their Pleasure and Re- ward . I cannot , I confefs , boaft any fuch Ef- fect of that , as fhould much infpirit the hopes of a new attempt ; yet fince we see in our pro- per fecular Concerns , Defeats do many ...
... Vertue which would be both their Pleasure and Re- ward . I cannot , I confefs , boaft any fuch Ef- fect of that , as fhould much infpirit the hopes of a new attempt ; yet fince we see in our pro- per fecular Concerns , Defeats do many ...
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الصفحة 239 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
الصفحة 202 - Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones : the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
الصفحة 43 - tis otherwife, where a Woman has no guide but her Will, and her Will is nothing but her humour : the event is fure to be fatal to her felf, arid often to others alfo. 12. AND the hazard of this renders that other reftraint of the Will, I mean that of obedience to Superiours, a very happy impofition; tho...
الصفحة 163 - ... innocently, they can fcarce fall upon any more hazardous. Indeed, 'tis very difficult to imagine, what vaft mifchief is done to the World, by the falfe notions and images of things; particularly of Love and Honour, thofe nobleft concerns of human life reprefented in their Mirrours. But when we confider upon what principles the...
الصفحة 41 - ... to God's ! How does it enervate and enfeeble any calamity ! nay, indeed, it triumphs over it, and, by that conjunction with him that ordains it, may be faid to command even what it fuffers.
الصفحة 172 - Wild as herfelf ) thinks fhe does but walk abroad with her Gaoler. But the Right of the Parent is fo undoubted, that we find GOD Himfelf gives way to it, and will not fuffer the moft Holy Pretence, no, not that of a Vow to Invade it, as we fee in Numb.
الصفحة 16 - Woman, a thing fbefiential and natural to the Sex, that every the leaft declination from it, is a proportionable receding from Woman-hood ; but the total abandoning it ranks them among Brutes, nay fets them as far beneath thofe, as an acquir'd vilenefs is below a native. I need make no collection of the verdicts, either of the Philofophers or Divines in the cafe, it being...
الصفحة 163 - Knights proftrate at her feet, fhe will probably be tempted to think it a fine thing ; and may reflect how much fhe lofes time, that has not yet fubdu'd one heart; and then her bufinefs will be to fpread her Nets, lay her Toils, to catch fome Body w-ho will more fatally infnare her.
الصفحة 231 - Ihe can. And indeed a Widow can no way better provide for her own Honour, than by this tendernefs of her Husband's.
الصفحة 231 - Proxies to receive the kindnefs of which himfelf is uncapable ; fo that the Children of a Widow may claim a double portion of the Mother's Love; one upon their native right, as hers; the other, as a bequeft in right of their dead Bather.