Practical Hints to Honest Hearts: On Some of the Many Ways and Means of Doing Good : in a Number of Letters to Sundry Females |
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... Providence , it may be resumed , and extended further than barely to the fe- male sex , many of whom have already , especially in this country , made rapid and unparalleled advances by their exertions in behalf of ruined man , towards ...
... Providence , it may be resumed , and extended further than barely to the fe- male sex , many of whom have already , especially in this country , made rapid and unparalleled advances by their exertions in behalf of ruined man , towards ...
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... Providence once favoured me in your family , you will not think it strange that I am disposed , even at this late hour and great distance , to " cast one long- ing , lingering , look behind ; " and contrive in this way to hold yet one ...
... Providence once favoured me in your family , you will not think it strange that I am disposed , even at this late hour and great distance , to " cast one long- ing , lingering , look behind ; " and contrive in this way to hold yet one ...
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... Providence has mark- ed out for any of them . They may not be destined to fill any very important station in this world ; they also may , some of them , fill the most important . Were you sure , that one of them , you know not which ...
... Providence has mark- ed out for any of them . They may not be destined to fill any very important station in this world ; they also may , some of them , fill the most important . Were you sure , that one of them , you know not which ...
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... Providence had lately placed you , Tell me every thing ; tell me how to discharge the duties of a WIFE , and of a Christian . This was not all ; you made me promise upon both of these points to be particular : and now I can't go back ...
... Providence had lately placed you , Tell me every thing ; tell me how to discharge the duties of a WIFE , and of a Christian . This was not all ; you made me promise upon both of these points to be particular : and now I can't go back ...
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... providence evidently open the door for you , and be afraid of moving one step before the cloud and pillar . " --- My friend , by prayer and fasting you will disco- ver the finger of Providence pointing the way in which you should go ...
... providence evidently open the door for you , and be afraid of moving one step before the cloud and pillar . " --- My friend , by prayer and fasting you will disco- ver the finger of Providence pointing the way in which you should go ...
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Page 132 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star. And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
Page 131 - And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Page 28 - ... foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him...
Page 41 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 28 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Page 15 - The path of the just is as the shining light which shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Page 160 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 92 - Pray ye the Lord of the Harvest, that He would send forth labourers into His harvest — from that moment, Prayer for this object has never ceased to be the Duty of every Christian.
Page 118 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Page 164 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name ; for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.