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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... never done but very little , if any good in the world ; and now it is all over with me . Others , happy souls , who have the day before them , may be useful by their exertions ; but I am even now groping in the twilight of that " night ...
... never done but very little , if any good in the world ; and now it is all over with me . Others , happy souls , who have the day before them , may be useful by their exertions ; but I am even now groping in the twilight of that " night ...
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... never found in the human breast , previous to a genuine repentance of sin , and a saving faith in the Saviour of sinners . If you have ever , then , done a single good action in all your life , you are ready to disclaim all merit of ...
... never found in the human breast , previous to a genuine repentance of sin , and a saving faith in the Saviour of sinners . If you have ever , then , done a single good action in all your life , you are ready to disclaim all merit of ...
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... never be forgotten , as long as humanity suffers , or the Redeemer's kingdom endures ! Nor will all the property you are pleased to bequeath to the cause of religion , be thrown away or lost . How much good the legacy of Mrs. Norris has ...
... never be forgotten , as long as humanity suffers , or the Redeemer's kingdom endures ! Nor will all the property you are pleased to bequeath to the cause of religion , be thrown away or lost . How much good the legacy of Mrs. Norris has ...
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... never refuse 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 ...
... never refuse 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 ...
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... never give . Do what he may , he can never exercise a single feeling , or think a single thought , for his child . In the government of children , of whatever age or sex , I have often thought that two max- ims , when blended together ...
... never give . Do what he may , he can never exercise a single feeling , or think a single thought , for his child . In the government of children , of whatever age or sex , I have often thought that two max- ims , when blended together ...
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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.