The International Congress of Women of 1899, Volume 7Ishbel Gordon Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair T. F. Unwin, 1900 - Child labor |
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Page 137 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Page 137 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 144 - Wellington is supposed to have said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Page 74 - That the father and grandfather, and the mother and grandmother, and the children of every poor, old, blind, lame and impotent person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability shall at their own charges relieve and maintain every such poor person in that manner, and according to that rate as by the Justices of the Peace of that county where such sufficient persons dwell, or the greater number of them, at their general Quarter Sessions, shall be assessed...
Page 134 - All the world is around me. All that ever stirred human hearts, or fired the imagination, is harmlessly here. My library shelves are the avenues of time.
Page 8 - What other end should we seek for these women, not only for their own sakes but for the sake of society, in whose interest they were imprisoned ? They must learn to do right because it is right ; to make a right decision when they are free to make a wrong one ; to stand steadfast when they are released from restraint and confronted with temptation. A prisoner who obeys because she is afraid to disobey, can be trusted as far as the arm of authority can reach, and no farther. One who obeys because...
Page 60 - Self -reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Page 239 - The plume hunter had discovered the colony, and a few shattered nests were all that was left to tell of the once populous colony. The few surviving tenants, if there were any, had fled in terror to the recesses of wilder swamps. Wearily I descended from the tree, to find among the leaves and mould the crumbling bones of the slaughtered birds.
Page 127 - One love implied the other, for if a man loved not his brother, whom he had seen, how could he love God, whom he had not seen?
Page 12 - The good principle in the hearts of many abandoned persons may be compared to the few remaining sparks of a nearly extinguished fire. By means of the utmost care and attention, united with the most gentle treatment, these may yet be fanned into a flame; but under the operation of a rough and violent hand they will presently disappear and be lost forever.