A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical Beauties for Young Ladies, Intended to Lead the Female Mind to the Love and Practice of Moral Goodness. Designed Principally for the Use of Ladies' Schools

Mrs. Pilkington (Mary)

T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, 1799 - 240 Seiten

Inhalt

• III: 1
• IV: 23
• V: 44
• VI: 61
• VII: 76
• VIII: 92
• IX: 103
• X: 113
• XI: 120
• XII: 134
• XIII: 146
• XIV: 155
• XV: 170
• XVI: 180
• XVII: 185
• XVIII: 198
• XIX: 215
• XX: 227

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 210 - Brest, and many of them died, because they were not used to live in a jail; but, for my part, it was nothing to me, for I was seasoned. One night...

Seite 212 - ... a privateer, I should have been entitled to clothing and maintenance during the rest of my life ; but that was not my chance : one man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and another with a wooden ladle. However, blessed be God ! I enjoy good health, and have no enemy in this world, that I know of, but the French and the justice of peace.

Seite 209 - I hoped to be set on shore, and to have the pleasure of spending my money ; but the government wanted men, and so I was pressed for a sailor before ever I could set foot on shore.

Seite 205 - I was able to handle a mallet ; and here I lived an easy kind of a life for five years, I only wrought ten hours in the day, and had my meat and drink provided for my labour.

Seite 203 - The misfortunes of the great are held up to engage our attention ; are enlarged upon in tones of declamation ; and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers...

Seite 231 - The hour of my death now approaching, I cannot choose but, out of the love I bear you, advise you of your soul's health, which you ought to prefer before all considerations of the world or flesh whatsoever: for which yet you have cast me into many calamities, and yourself into many troubles. But I forgive you all, and pray God to do so likewise.

Seite 208 - I was very happy in this manner for some time, till one evening, coming home from work, two men knocked me down, and then desired me to stand. They belonged to a press-gang...

Seite 207 - People may say this and that of being in jail, but, for my part, I found Newgate as agreeable a place as ever I was in in all my life. I had my belly-full to eat and drink, and did no work at all.

Seite 210 - I had still, however, my forty pounds, and that was some comfort to me under every beating ; and the money I might have had to this day, but that our ship was taken by the French, and so I lost all.

Seite 205 - I lived an easy kind of life for five years. I only wrought ten hours in the day, and had my meat and drink provided for my labour. It is true, I was not...

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical Beauties for Young Ladies, Intended to Lead the Female Mind to the Love and Practice of Moral Goodness. Designed Principally for the Use of Ladies' Schools
• Autor: Mrs. Pilkington (Mary)
• Illustriert von: Thomas Bewick
• Ausgabe: 2
• Verlag: T. Maiden, Sherbourne-Lane, 1799
• Original von: Oxford University
• Digitalisiert: 2. Aug. 2007
• Länge: 240 Seiten