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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... greatest care , and nicest skill , To take the good , and to reject the ill . By her example taught , enrich thy mind , Improve kind nature's gifts , by fense refin'd ; Be thou the honey - comb in whom may dwell Each mental fweet , nor ...
... greatest care , and nicest skill , To take the good , and to reject the ill . By her example taught , enrich thy mind , Improve kind nature's gifts , by fense refin'd ; Be thou the honey - comb in whom may dwell Each mental fweet , nor ...
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... greatest abundance in the West Indies ; many of which are so small , as to be the private pro- perty of a few persons . Lady Mary . I never knew before that England was an Island and always thought every thing we ate , drank , or wore ...
... greatest abundance in the West Indies ; many of which are so small , as to be the private pro- perty of a few persons . Lady Mary . I never knew before that England was an Island and always thought every thing we ate , drank , or wore ...
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... greatest merit : notwithstanding , the whole country derived its name from Americus Vefputius ; and as names of places are usually feminine , it was called America . Lady Mary . I think that was extremely unjuft : I should think it very ...
... greatest merit : notwithstanding , the whole country derived its name from Americus Vefputius ; and as names of places are usually feminine , it was called America . Lady Mary . I think that was extremely unjuft : I should think it very ...
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... greatest part of Norway , Sweden , Den- mark , Poland , Ruffia , the Leffer Afia , Na- tolia , Greece , Judea or Palestine , Affyria , and the chief part of the Greater Afia , viz . Arme- nia , Perfia , part of India , of great Tartary ...
... greatest part of Norway , Sweden , Den- mark , Poland , Ruffia , the Leffer Afia , Na- tolia , Greece , Judea or Palestine , Affyria , and the chief part of the Greater Afia , viz . Arme- nia , Perfia , part of India , of great Tartary ...
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... greatest part of Tartary , the points of Norway and Swedeland , the heart of Lapland and Finland , the uttermoft part of America , and the bounds of Europe . The boisterous winds , and rough feas , prevent the countries being well known ...
... greatest part of Tartary , the points of Norway and Swedeland , the heart of Lapland and Finland , the uttermoft part of America , and the bounds of Europe . The boisterous winds , and rough feas , prevent the countries being well known ...
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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.