What a young wife ought to knowVir Publishing Company, 1901 - 292 pages |
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Page 71 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 139 - She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 119 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 141 - And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, art thou the man that spakest unto the woman ? and he said, I am. And Manoah said, now let thy words come to pass, how shall we order the child ') and how shall we do unto him...
Page 136 - ... appearance of a man of great abilities in undistinguished families. Mr. Darwin maintains, in the theory of Pangenesis, that the gemmules of innumerable qualities, derived from ancestral sources, circulate in the blood and propagate themselves, generation after generation, still in the state of gemmules, but fail in developing themselves into cells, because other antagonistic gemmules are prepotent and overmaster them, in the struggle for points of attachment. Hence there is a vastly larger number...
Page 135 - As the sun, Ere it is risen, sometimes paints its image In the atmosphere, so often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events, And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Page 136 - I conclude that each generation has enormous power over the natural gifts of those that follow, and maintain that it is a duty we owe to humanity to investigate the range of that power, and to exercise it in a way that, without being unwise towards ourselves, shall be most advantageous to future inhabitants of the earth.
Page 37 - I wish there were such an ambition for the most perfect national health as there is for national renown in war, or in art or commerce.
Page 286 - Eve — God created man with power similar to his creative power — The purity of parentage. PART II The manner in which the reproductive organs are injured in boys by abuse — Comparative anatomy, or points of resemblance between bodies of birds, animals and man — Man the only animal with a perfect hand — With the hand he constructs, builds and blesses — With the hand he smites, slays and injures others, and degrades himself. PART...