The Life of Cornelia Connelly, 1809-1879: Foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus

Sampul Depan
Longmans, Green and Company, 1924 - 260 halaman
Cornelia Connelly, née Cornelia Augusta Peacock, (born Jan. 15, 1809, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.--died April 18, 1879, St. Leonards, Sussex, Eng.), Roman Catholic abbess who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and became the subject of an acrimonious ecclesiastical controversy.

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Halaman 168 - ... you may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does...
Halaman 237 - Shall own thee there, and all in one Weave a constellation Of crowns, with which the King, thy spouse, Shall build up thy triumphant brows. All thy old woes shall now smile on thee, And thy pains sit bright upon thee; All thy sorrows here shall shine, All thy sufferings be divine; Tears shall take comfort and turn gems, And wrongs repent to diadems.
Halaman 23 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, ' or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Halaman 155 - Everything was taught us in the inverse ratio of its true importance. At the bottom of the scale were Morals and Religion, and at the top were Music and Dancing...
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Halaman 154 - Since erudition in women is a new thing and a reproach to the sloth of men, many will gladly assail it, and impute to literature what is really the fault of nature, thinking from the vices of the learned to get their own ignorance esteemed as virtue. On the other hand, if a woman (and this I desire and hope with you as their teacher for all my daughters) to eminent virtue...
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