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Updated: June 29, 2025
But they must not be the refuge of a rebellious heart, for they are as nothing unless accompanied by obedience obedience, obedience, the finest adornment of the great saints!" Pierre listened thunderstruck, overcome. He forgot himself to think of the apostle of kindliness and tolerance upon whose head he had drawn this all-powerful anger.
'But I do, father, I'm afraid. I often wish I could wear pretty-coloured ribbons round my throat like the squire's daughters. 'It's but natural, minister! said his wife; 'I'm not above liking a silk gown better than a cotton one myself! 'The love of dress is a temptation and a snare, said he, gravely. 'The true adornment is a meek and quiet spirit.
The point of view adopted was that appearance did not matter, that it was waste of time to consider the adornment of the outer woman.
I can't tell you how he did it; I can't repeat what he said; but it was inner adornment, you know; 'all glorious within, I remember he said; and without a word more about what he started with, he made one feel that there is no real adornment but that kind, nor any other worth a thought.
Whenever that is the case, it is most reverential to look another way; but the mood disposes one to minute investigation, and I took advantage of it to examine the intricate and multitudinous adornment that was lavished on the exterior wall of this great church.
But art and literature embody ideas only; and, as Ozanam says so well: "Beneath the current of ideas which dispute the empire of the world, lies that world itself such as labor has made it, with that treasure of wealth and visible adornment which render it worthy of being the transient sojourn-place of immortal souls.
Do not be afraid to educate your women as women; teach them a woman's business, that they be modest, that they may know how to manage their house and look after their family; the grand toilet will soon disappear, and they will be more tastefully dressed. Growing girls perceive at once that all this outside adornment is not enough unless they have charms of their own.
Temperly had 'known enough' to select, for the adornment of her walls, half a dozen immensely valuable specimens of contemporary French art. Her choice of other objects had been equally enlightened, and he remembered what Dora had said to him five years before that her mother wished them to have the best.
There alone in this great continent did men develop an architecture which, not only in massiveness but in wealth of architectural detail and sculptural adornment, vies with that of early Egypt or Chaldea. There alone did the art of writing develop.
That reconstitution of the family, which Rousseau and others among his contemporaries rightly sought after as one of the most pressing needs of the time, was essentially impossible, so long as the typical woman was the adornment of a semi-philosophic seraglio, a sort of compromise between the frowzy ideal of an English bourgeois and the impertinent ideal of a Parisian gallant.
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