... founded. It grew out of an increasing sense of the importance of the duties of women, and of the need that her work should be well done. Hence the ...
... of woman, is the question of her equality with man for if woman be inferior to man, so should be her education. Some might be disposed to reverse ...
... over four thousand years were needed to prepare the human mind for the coming of Christ and it was reserved for Christ fully to declare what place the ...
... that it should be the same to a much greater extent than most persons are willing to concede. Up to a certain point, the education of men is much the ...
... is,-and too little importance attaches to the study of the Hebrew and the Christian Scriptures,-the fountain whence the ever-enlarging river of our ...
... works on science, philosophy, medicine, jurisprudence, and theology, and all legal documents, state papers, and treaties, were done in Latin when ...
... by different nations, will or can be lost. Truth once known can never be hidden. The results of each generation and century, pass on into the ...
... the under-graduate learns in his college course, which he should not be glad that his wife should know as well as himself. Surely a liberal education ...
... The signs point both ways on the whole, the prospect is hopeful and cheering: but we must either go back or go on we must become either more Asiatic ...
... parties, as they might properly be called, have large possessions, so that the disposal of property does not often arise, the evil is less. ...
... corruption, are those laws of divorce which, in several of our States, practically tend to make marriage a contract dissoluble at the will of the ...
... it is that of man also. The destruction of the family is likewise the destruction of the State. The family is the foundation stone on which the ...
... He will finally bring it to pass. That ideal of woman which we would fain behold realized, is His ideal. He ordained that the place of woman should ...
... spirit of the first divine word as to woman-It is not good for man to be alone-it is here written She shall do him good and not evil all the ...
... reasons I have called the attention of the general audience, there are inwrought characteristics, the excellence of which I would, in this hour of parting, ...
... vulgar errors, that a lady is a person who does nothing. Such a person would be good for nothing, and miserable indeed. Work, however, is of many kinds ...
... have occasioned. Friendships broken, causeless enmities, opportunities for doing good and getting good thrown away, too often teach us-too late to ...
... hope, and more fervently pray, that she may everywhere carry with her the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great ...
... youth. The fashion of this world passeth away:-lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt. Set your ...
... dowry. The elder's wife. Whose wife was she? The one-legged dancers. How one woman kept her husband. Esther Wynn's love-letters.Helen Hunt Jackson ...