The English Woman's Journal, เล่มที่ 11

ปกหน้า
English Woman's Journal Company

จากด้านในหนังสือ

เนื้อหา

ฉบับอื่นๆ - ดูทั้งหมด

คำและวลีที่พบบ่อย

บทความที่เป็นที่นิยม

หน้า 383 - The keepers of the boarding-houses must give an account of the number, names, and employment of their boarders when required, and report the names of such as are guilty of any improper conduct, or are not in the regular habit of attending public worship.
หน้า 267 - WHEREAS it is expedient for the better advancement of religion and morality and the promotion of useful knowledge, to hold forth to all classes and denominations of Her Majesty's subjects resident in New South Wales, without any distinction whatsoever, an encouragement for pursuing a regular and liberal course of education ; and to ascertain by means of examination the persons who acquire proficiency in literature, science.
หน้า 34 - When the bride has fixed her choice, her hopes of matrimony are closed for life. With one husband, as with one life, one mind, one body, every woman is satisfied ; in him her happiness is centred ; her desires extend no further ; and the principle is not only an affection for her husband's person, but a reverence for the married state.
หน้า 246 - I was (this person concluded) in one of the principal offices at Poona during the last years of her administration, and know well what feelings were excited by the mere mention of her name. Among the princes of her own nation, it would have been looked upon as sacrilege to have become her enemy, or, indeed, not to have defended her against any hostile attempt. She was considered by all in the same light. The Nizam of the Dekkan and Tippoo Sultan granted her the same respect as the Paishwah ; and...
หน้า 167 - Hence, she loves nought else but thee. She has enough of every good in this present life, but she has despised it all for thee alone. She has shunned it all, because only she has not thee also.
หน้า 34 - Lest the wife should think her sex an exemption from the rigours of the severest virtue, and the toils of war, she is informed of her duty by the marriage ceremony, and thence she learns, that she is received by her husband to be his partner in toil and danger, to dare with him in war, and suffer with him in peace. The oxen yoked, the horse accoutred, and the arms given on the occasion, inculcate this lesson ; and thus she is prepared to live, and thus to die. These are the terms of their union :...
หน้า 36 - There is, in their opinion, something sacred in the female sex, and even the power of foreseeing future events. Their advice is, therefore, always heard ; they are frequently consulted, and their responses are deemed oracular. We have seen, in the reign of Vespasian, the famous Veleda revered as a divinity by her countrymen. Before her time, Aurinia and others were held in equal veneration ; but a veneration founded on sentiment and superstition, free from that servile adulation which pretends to...
หน้า 33 - ... of his rank and character. The bride brings no portion; she receives a dowry from her husband. In the presence of her parents and relations he makes a tender of part of his wealth; if accepted, the match is approved. In the choice of the presents, female vanity is not consulted. There are no frivolous trinkets to adorn the future bride. The whole fortune consists of oxen, a caparisoned horse, a shield, a spear, and a sword. She in return delivers a present of arms, and, by this exchange of gifts,...
หน้า 106 - This will be submitted at the end of every month to the Committee of the Nightingale Fund. At the end of a yenr those whom the Committee find to have passed satisfactorily through the course of instruction and training will be entered in the Register as certified Nurses, and will be recommended for employment accordingly.
หน้า 240 - God for every exercise of power ;" and in the full spirit of a pious and benevolent mind was wont to exclaim, when urged by her ministers to acts of extreme severity, " Let us, mortals, beware how we destroy the works of the Almighty.

บรรณานุกรม