The young lady's book : a manual of elegant recreations, arts, sciences, and accomplishments / edited by distinguished professors.

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[1859?]
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    her cradle to her grave, a spirit of obedience and submission, plia- bility of temper, and humility of mind, are required from her; and the most highly-gifted cannot quit the path thus pointed out by habit, nature, and religion, without injury to her own character. Modesty, which may be termed the inherent virtue and native grace of woman-which she may be exhorted to retain, but will seldom be entreated to acquire—renders obedience, in general, easy and habitual to her, especially at that period of life, when she is placed under paternal care. There are, however, gay and buoyant spirits, haughty and self-willed minds, even among the softer sex, that are not otherwise ill-disposed, who feel obedience a difficult task, and are ready to question the wisdom, or analyse the riohts, of those in authority over them. To such I would urge this virtue as a religious duty, if they could not submit to it as a reasonable service. I would beseech them, as.em.ies ca e self-control and meekness, to obey, “for conscience sake, even where conscience itself did not utter the command, hitherto shalt thou go, but no further.” , Consideration is of the utmost value in that situation where the conduct of woman has its greatest utility and most valuab e influence—the domestic circle. It combines the powers of r eflec- tion with the sentiments of kindness, and saves from many an anxious1 hour, and wearisome labour, the parent who brnksfor you, the teacher who instructs you, the servant who to.lsTor you. It is a gentle and feminine virtue, unobtrusive, as. to appearance, but important in effect.. The threatenings o incIP’® , . _lthe the ruin caused by foolish expenditure, oi i e P jm_ temptations which might have misled an ignoiai ’ <■ •] prudent friend-the present aid that may save awretched family —may all be happily prevented or supplied by Cons^erataon It is the “still, small voice,” which can ^’^..^^ '^X^eficial the tide of human affairs, by an agency alike mild and beneficial, PT~ hTESed by the poet as the - first of vir tues and happily it is, like modesty, a pretty, genera one with the yomrn and artless, who cannot have so mixed w . in have learned deceit. Children are seldom disingenuous, but in some, extreme timidity produces this effect; the want c> oour g to o^vn their faults, or reveal their wishes ^hlr Such a cunniim in veiling the one, and procuring the other, »ucni a tendency calkfor°no little care from the instructor; and if her efforts have not wholly succeeded in clearing the sov iet the you