A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School

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Harper & Bros., 1856 - Всего страниц: 369

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Стр. 182 - Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand...
Стр. 182 - Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him : because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Стр. 28 - There are people in Europe who, confounding together the different characteristics of the sexes, would make of man and woman .\ beings not only equal but alike. They would give to both the same functions, impose on both the same duties, and grant to both the same rights : they would mix them in all things — their occupations, their pleasures, their business.
Стр. 32 - I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position ; and if I were asked, now that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply — to the superiority of their women.
Стр. 35 - If the men of our time were led by attentive observation and by sincere reflection to acknowledge that the gradual and progressive development of social equality is at once the past and future of their history, this solitary truth would confer the sacred character of a Divine decree upon the change. To attempt to check democracy would be in that case to resist the will of God...
Стр. 32 - As for myself, I do not hesitate to avow, that, although the women of the United States are confined within the narrow circle of domestic life, and their situation is, in some respects, one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen woman occupying a loftier position...
Стр. 166 - In doing this, let a woman remember that, though " what we shall eat, and what we shall drink, and wherewithal we shall be clothed...
Стр. 36 - ... as a thousand tyrants are more to be dreaded than one>> It is equally conceded, that the formation of the moral and intellectual character of the young is committed mainly to the female hand.
Стр. 28 - It may readily be conceived, that by thus attempting to make one sex equal to the other, both are degraded ; and from so preposterous a medley of the works of nature, nothing could ever result but weak men and disorderly women.
Стр. 29 - America, who often exhibit a masculine strength of understanding and a manly energy, generally preserve great delicacy of personal appearance and always retain the manners of women, although they sometimes show that they have the hearts and minds of men.

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