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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... less anxious on this account than yourself . Her trials are very great . To you does she look , under God , for direction . And who knows , but your long ex- perience may be the means of guiding her affectionate zeal in the channel to ...
... less anxious on this account than yourself . Her trials are very great . To you does she look , under God , for direction . And who knows , but your long ex- perience may be the means of guiding her affectionate zeal in the channel to ...
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... less with equal severity ? espe- cially to treat trivial faults like heinous crimes ? to cease correcting at any time be- fore penitence and cheerful obedience is ef- fected ? ever to give a command which is un- reasonable ? to give one ...
... less with equal severity ? espe- cially to treat trivial faults like heinous crimes ? to cease correcting at any time be- fore penitence and cheerful obedience is ef- fected ? ever to give a command which is un- reasonable ? to give one ...
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... I might almost say all her years , to the fine arts , and English grammar , rhetoric , and geography , might doubt- less receive more real advantage , as to mental ' D improvement , from a single rule in arithme- tic , 37.
... I might almost say all her years , to the fine arts , and English grammar , rhetoric , and geography , might doubt- less receive more real advantage , as to mental ' D improvement , from a single rule in arithme- tic , 37.
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... less than the wandering mendicant . But , " the one thing needful , " I think I hear you say , is none of these . Madam , the all important subject of RELIGION , has not yet been mentioned ; which so far from being excluded from a ...
... less than the wandering mendicant . But , " the one thing needful , " I think I hear you say , is none of these . Madam , the all important subject of RELIGION , has not yet been mentioned ; which so far from being excluded from a ...
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... less happy than when in his society , may with much reason be sus- pected that her love and obedience are not sincere , though she may compliment him ever so much while absent , and shed many tears for his safe return . Neither smiles ...
... less happy than when in his society , may with much reason be sus- pected that her love and obedience are not sincere , though she may compliment him ever so much while absent , and shed many tears for his safe return . Neither smiles ...
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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.