The ladies calling, by the author of The whole duty of man. [Another]

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Página 9 - If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee; and be bold, it will not burst thee.
Página 60 - The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Página 160 - Wild as herfelf ) thinks fhe does but walk abroad with her Gaoler. But the Right of the Parent is fo undoubted, that we find GOD Himfelf gives way to it, and will not fuffer the moft Holy Pretence, no, not that of a Vow to Invade it, as we fee in Numb.
Página 153 - ... innocently, they can fcarce fall upon any more hazardous. Indeed, 'tis very difficult to imagine, what vaft mifchief is done to the World, by the falfe notions and images of things; particularly of Love and Honour, thofe nobleft concerns of human life, reprefented in their Mirrours. But when we confider upon what principles the Duellifts and...
Página 141 - Great men, and judges, and potentates, shall be honoured; yet is there none of them greater than he that feareth the Lord.
Página 214 - Cant. 8. 6. and therefore when it is pure and genuine, cannot be extinguifh'd by it, but burns like the Funeral Lamps of old even in Vaults and Charnel-houfes. The Conjugal love tranfplanted into the grave, (as into a finer mould) improves into Piety, and lays a kind of facred Obligation upon the Widow, to perform all Offices of RefpecT: and Kindnefs which his Remains are capable of. 2. Now thofe Remains are of three forts, his Body, his Memory, and his Children.
Página 37 - Sex, whofe paffions being naturally the more impetuous, ought to be the more ftridly guarded, and kept under the fevere difcipline of Reafon : for where 'tis otherwife, where a Woman has no guide but her Will, and her Will is nothing but her humour : the event is fure to be fatal to her felf, and often to others alfo.
Página 220 - As to the other part of her Obligation, the managing of their Fortune, there is the fame Rule for her as for all other Perfbns that have a Truft, viq.
Página 144 - Paul's judgment, in refpeft of excellence alfb, i Cor. 7. And indeed, fhe that preferves her felf in that ftate upon the account he mentions, ver. 34. that jhe may care for the things that are of the Lord9 that Jbe may be holy both in body and in @>iritt deferves a great deal of veneration, as making one of the neareft approaches to the Angelical State.
Página 10 - I make no doubt but this Age has arriv'd to as compendious arts of this kind, as induftrious vice can fuggeft, and we have but too many inftances of early proficients in this learning ; yet I dare appeal even to the forwardeft of them, whether at firft they could not with more eafe have kept their vertue than loft it. Certainly fuch are -the Horrours and...

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