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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... leave behind , with the heart - consoling thought , that you do not leave them without having tried to do them good ; and thank God that through his grace you hope you may be reckoned among those who have endeavoured to follow the Lamb ...
... leave behind , with the heart - consoling thought , that you do not leave them without having tried to do them good ; and thank God that through his grace you hope you may be reckoned among those who have endeavoured to follow the Lamb ...
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... leave your sons to the direction of a faithful and affectionate partner , and come with me to view for a few minutes the subject which common custom and language denomi nates " Female Education . " Not that we suppose , or that any who ...
... leave your sons to the direction of a faithful and affectionate partner , and come with me to view for a few minutes the subject which common custom and language denomi nates " Female Education . " Not that we suppose , or that any who ...
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... leave a languishing mother at home , and go away , decked in all the frippery of folly and extravagance , to weep at fiction in the thea- tre ! Says the moralizing Cowper , " I would not number on my list of friends " ( Tho ' grac'd ...
... leave a languishing mother at home , and go away , decked in all the frippery of folly and extravagance , to weep at fiction in the thea- tre ! Says the moralizing Cowper , " I would not number on my list of friends " ( Tho ' grac'd ...
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... leave school by the time you are 16 or 17 years old . I hope you will go till you are 20. Young ladies show their weakness in nothing more , than in being ashamed to learn . How would you like to teach a school when you are old enough ...
... leave school by the time you are 16 or 17 years old . I hope you will go till you are 20. Young ladies show their weakness in nothing more , than in being ashamed to learn . How would you like to teach a school when you are old enough ...
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... leaving the conspicuous , important stations of the holy office , to men of less opportunities and consequence , and more ordinary address . I would not even name these accomplished tri- fles , with any other wish than that they may be ...
... leaving the conspicuous , important stations of the holy office , to men of less opportunities and consequence , and more ordinary address . I would not even name these accomplished tri- fles , with any other wish than that they may be ...
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Popular passages
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.