The Moral Instructor, Or, Culture of the Heart, Affections, and Intellect, While Learning to Read, Volume 3 |
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... become easy ; and it will confer a vast increase of power over the attention , and of fluency of expression , upon the pupil . The teacher should also endeavor to catch the spirit of the questions , so as to be able to apply a similar ...
... become easy ; and it will confer a vast increase of power over the attention , and of fluency of expression , upon the pupil . The teacher should also endeavor to catch the spirit of the questions , so as to be able to apply a similar ...
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... become better children by reading them ? Do you love and obey your father and mother better than you did before ? Have you learnt to be gentle and kind to animals ? Are you more ready to forgive your broth- ers and sisters , or your ...
... become better children by reading them ? Do you love and obey your father and mother better than you did before ? Have you learnt to be gentle and kind to animals ? Are you more ready to forgive your broth- ers and sisters , or your ...
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... becoming wicked men . 61. In the evening , the boys were called into the parlor , and , after they had been told what had been done , Mr. Elton warned them of the danger of lying about it , and so mak- ing the affair worse . 62. Frank ...
... becoming wicked men . 61. In the evening , the boys were called into the parlor , and , after they had been told what had been done , Mr. Elton warned them of the danger of lying about it , and so mak- ing the affair worse . 62. Frank ...
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... . No , I would much rather observe their good qualities , so that I might imitate and acquire them . We ought to be faultless ourselves , before we become nice in observing the faults of others . Besides , don't 42 THE MORAL INSTRUCTOR .
... . No , I would much rather observe their good qualities , so that I might imitate and acquire them . We ought to be faultless ourselves , before we become nice in observing the faults of others . Besides , don't 42 THE MORAL INSTRUCTOR .
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... become worse ; it is difficult to become better . Fanny did not become bad all at once . She at first was only a little fond of scandal , and the taste for it became stronger and stronger every day . So it will be with you , if you do ...
... become worse ; it is difficult to become better . Fanny did not become bad all at once . She at first was only a little fond of scandal , and the taste for it became stronger and stronger every day . So it will be with you , if you do ...
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Page 80 - And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him ; but he refused to be comforted ; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning.
Page 45 - Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law : but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy : who art thou that judgest another?
Page 46 - And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; charity envieth not ; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily...
Page 115 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt : I am the Lord your God.
Page 77 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren : and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Page 79 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 45 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 33 - And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.
Page 83 - So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 64 - But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, which owed him a hundred pence : and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. And his fellow-servant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.