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Page 59
... wife . On the contrary , they have masters for singing , music , dancing , French , & c .; are encouraged to avoid house- work , and to consider it filthy and degrading to do it ; and are brought up wholly ignorant and averse to what ...
... wife . On the contrary , they have masters for singing , music , dancing , French , & c .; are encouraged to avoid house- work , and to consider it filthy and degrading to do it ; and are brought up wholly ignorant and averse to what ...
Page 60
... wife or daughter . They are precarious and uncertain occupations , with licentious and sensual exposures . They cost much valuable time , and are seldom blended with the fireside employments of home . Few women have composed one bar of ...
... wife or daughter . They are precarious and uncertain occupations , with licentious and sensual exposures . They cost much valuable time , and are seldom blended with the fireside employments of home . Few women have composed one bar of ...
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... wives with their recollection of the virtues of their own mothers ; and that propensities at variance with these just and virtuous attributes of the female character will be shunned . That every discreet man , in pursuit of a wife ...
... wives with their recollection of the virtues of their own mothers ; and that propensities at variance with these just and virtuous attributes of the female character will be shunned . That every discreet man , in pursuit of a wife ...
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... wife and pious mother . Every girl should be well tried , and carefully disciplined in all these essential elements of her destiny , without which mar- riage is a perjury , and married life is a fraud ; with which it is honorable in all ...
... wife and pious mother . Every girl should be well tried , and carefully disciplined in all these essential elements of her destiny , without which mar- riage is a perjury , and married life is a fraud ; with which it is honorable in all ...
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... wife and children . No one can ask excuse , or claim ignorance of this plain rule of common law , acknowledged by all the world . An omnibus - boy will chide the impertinent obtrusion of a passenger by the rebuke , " That man don't want ...
... wife and children . No one can ask excuse , or claim ignorance of this plain rule of common law , acknowledged by all the world . An omnibus - boy will chide the impertinent obtrusion of a passenger by the rebuke , " That man don't want ...
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