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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... instruction , that I doubt not many engaged in the busy , anxious , dissipating scenes , which middle age almost unavoidably brings with it , are at times tempted to over- look their own peculiar blessings , and your many and peculiar ...
... instruction , that I doubt not many engaged in the busy , anxious , dissipating scenes , which middle age almost unavoidably brings with it , are at times tempted to over- look their own peculiar blessings , and your many and peculiar ...
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... instructions , warnings , and admo- nitions , you will give them , relative to their duty to each other , their parents , and the world . How pleasing to you must be the employment of teaching their young ideas how to shoot , ' of ...
... instructions , warnings , and admo- nitions , you will give them , relative to their duty to each other , their parents , and the world . How pleasing to you must be the employment of teaching their young ideas how to shoot , ' of ...
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... instruction , from whatever source it may come , nor fail to put into practice that which is practical . Permit me , then , dear Madam , to call your attention to the subject of family government , then to that of instruction , as these ...
... instruction , from whatever source it may come , nor fail to put into practice that which is practical . Permit me , then , dear Madam , to call your attention to the subject of family government , then to that of instruction , as these ...
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... instruction ; to which if more diligent and prayerful attention were given by every pa- rent , family government in general would be far different from what it now is . Here you find our two maxims , fully inculcated , and ex- emplified ...
... instruction ; to which if more diligent and prayerful attention were given by every pa- rent , family government in general would be far different from what it now is . Here you find our two maxims , fully inculcated , and ex- emplified ...
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... instruction , to which I proposed briefly to call your attention , by any means confined to the school - room ... instruction . But while children continue to be depraved , rational be- ings , so long must their education be a conti ...
... instruction , to which I proposed briefly to call your attention , by any means confined to the school - room ... instruction . But while children continue to be depraved , rational be- ings , so long must their education be a conti ...
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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.