Anna Laetitia Barbauld - The works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1825)

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But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

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Englishmen are said to love their laws; — that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

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It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

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You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun....

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The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

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And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

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Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

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