THE YOUNG MAIDEN.
by
A. B. MUZZEY,
Author of The Young Man's Friend, Sunday School Guide, &C
"Young Men, and Maidens; * * * Let them praise the name of the Lord."
Tenth Edition.
Boston Wm. Crosby & H. P. Nichols, 111 Washington Street 1848.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by A. B. Muzzey, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.
Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, Printers to the University.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.--The Capacities of Woman, page 5 Chapter II.--Female Influence, 30 Chapter III.--Female Education, 53 Chapter IV.--Home, 81 Chapter V.--Society, 107 Chapter VI.--Love, 136 Chapter VII.--Single Life, 151 Chapter VIII.--Reasons for Marriage, 163 Chapter IX.--Conditions of True Marriage, 191 Chapter X.--Society of Young Men, 205 Chapter XI.--First Love, 213 Chapter XII.--Conduct during Engagement, 222 Chapter XIII.--Trials of Woman, and her Solace, 237 Chapter XIV.--Encouragements, 255
DEDICATION.
TO THE YOUNG MAIDENS OF OUR FAVORED UNION, THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, BY THEIR FRIEND, THE AUTHOR.
THE YOUNG MAIDEN.
Chapter I.
THE CAPACITIES OF WOMAN.
The appropriate sphere of woman--how ascertained. By considering her Intellectual, Moral, and Physical Constitution; by a view of the Scripture teachings on this point; by a reference to History, observation, and experience. The women of Babylon. Patriotism of Phoenician women. Grecians and Romans. Modern Pagan Women. Occupations and Habits of Christian females friendly to improvement. State of Society, especially in this country, favorable. Effect of Chivalry on woman. The division of Duties between the sexes, and their Mutual Influence demand separate spheres. Woman should not engage in severe Physical toil. Milton's opinion. Nor in Political life. Plato's theory. Nor in promiscuous public Discussions. Home one part of her sphere. Private Beneficence. The Statue of ivory better than that of brass. Society requires Woman's presence. Lord Halifax's a good view of Female capacities.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: The Young Maiden by A. B. Muzzey
- 2: What are her Natural Capacities
- 3: Treated this sex with little respect
- 4: Fail to regard the sex with a consideration
- 5: India furnishes examples of conjugal devotedness
- 6: In sacred seclusion pursuing her domestic avocations
- 7: That the mutual influence of the sexes
- 8: Mingling with the opposite sex
- 9: Woman has duties appropriate to her sex
- 10: Ours wanteth your gentleness to soften
- 11: Sister of the distinguished astronomer
- 12: It is related of Alfred the Great
- 13: For what is essential to piety at home
- 14: Over the destinies of her country
- 15: Or any people more than ordinarily devout
- 16: Public charities were nearly unknown
- 17: She is distilling and must distill
- 18: Is one of various significations
- 19: Educate thyself as a human being
- 20: A refined intellect will not consent
- 21: And you strengthen the intellect
- 22: To become steeped in selfishness
- 23: For its invigorating influence
- 24: Let her be educated for self subsistence
- 25: Her intellect is cultivated too exclusively
- 26: To educate yourself in this talent
- 27: The address of Helena to Hermia
- 28: Polished after the similitude of a palace
- 29: The main motive is for fireside decorations
- 30: The filial relation is replete with moral incentives
- 31: For which Providence has qualified your sex
- 32: Wealth does not increase the filial obligations
- 33: Carriage with brother and sister
- 34: Who shall deny the sacred title of duty
- 35: She should be diligent and frugal
- 36: With what precious stones soever it may be adorned
- 37: Let her deep affections be developed by fireside fidelity
- 38: Of the present female character
- 39: For her attention to the neatness and beauty of her apparel
- 40: The little girl is a picture of bloom and buoyancy
- 41: One must feign an ignorance of every kind of employment
- 42: Departures from rectitude and purity
- 43: Know that if you are always ingenuous
- 44: The aristocracy of claiming attention
- 45: Thus highly are gentleness and modesty prized by the heathen
- 46: As unworthy your nature and your sex
- 47: As that of amusements and recreations
- 48: The opinion under consideration is egregiously erroneous
- 49: Who deem this sentiment a Weakness
- 50: In the formation of the marriage bond
- 51: To how many is love a theme for Jesting and Sport
- 52: When this topic is referred to
- 53: It is her duty to continue unmarried
- 54: For never permitting one of the opposite sex to address them
- 55: These traits we all prize in woman
- 56: Both of improvement and happiness
- 57: Better ten lives of singleness
- 58: Others marry to gratify their Friends
- 59: The parents may negotiate the marriage in person
- 60: As to pride themselves on external attractions alone
- 61: Who is subjected to gross and excessive flattery
- 62: Some are charmed by personal Bravery
- 63: The reverse of the practice in Persia
- 64: She is assuredly destitute of that chief grace of her sex
- 65: In which it was paradoxically asserted
- 66: For the gratification of an importunate lover
- 67: There is but one divine cement
- 68: Yet I by no means recommend the disregard of parental advice
- 69: Another condition of happy marriage
- 70: Sympathy between husband and wife
- 71: With this trait as the foundation
- 72: Franklin recommended early marriages
- 73: It may be needless to speak of the confirmed coquette
- 74: Had recommended this desirable medium
- 75: Save the existence of genuine love
- 76: Thou hast not loved Or if thou hast not sat
- 77: Will retain still a respect for her suitor
- 78: The ostensible purpose of their interviews is
- 79: In all wisdom and ingenuousness
- 80: To roll clouds over the sun of the matrimonial sky
- 81: Informing her of his mutilated condition
- 82: The Duration of an engagement should ordinarily be brief
- 83: In the bitterness of bereavement perhaps
- 84: Her extreme susceptibility of suffering
- 85: And wringing her hands for grief
- 86: Disappointed affection has a melancholy tale to relate
- 87: Deepest of all life's bereavements
- 88: And alive to the voices of kindred spirits
- 89: When piety presents its claims to the sterner sex
- 90: Female Societies for benevolent purposes
- 91: Will one thus nobly privileged
- 92: Prayer is our spiritual aliment