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... . Wonderful Power of Sympathy . So much for the reality of this principle ; and it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent and the magnitude of the influence it exerts in forming the character and shaping 122 GENTLE MEASURES .
... . Wonderful Power of Sympathy . So much for the reality of this principle ; and it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent and the magnitude of the influence it exerts in forming the character and shaping 122 GENTLE MEASURES .
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... reality or the extent of the danger in any particular case . The farmer's daughters , however , who laugh at her , know the cow in question perfectly well . They have milked her , and fed her , and tied her up to her manger a hundred ...
... reality or the extent of the danger in any particular case . The farmer's daughters , however , who laugh at her , know the cow in question perfectly well . They have milked her , and fed her , and tied her up to her manger a hundred ...
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... reality , she might do it in such a way as only to be taking the part of a suf- fering boy against his pain . It would seem that the true and proper course for a mother to take with a child in such a case would be to soothe and calm his ...
... reality , she might do it in such a way as only to be taking the part of a suf- fering boy against his pain . It would seem that the true and proper course for a mother to take with a child in such a case would be to soothe and calm his ...
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... reality . His ideas in respect to the philos- ophy of the transaction are , of course , exceedingly vague ; but so far as he forms any idea , it is that his mother's words are the expression of some mysterious but unreason- able ...
... reality . His ideas in respect to the philos- ophy of the transaction are , of course , exceedingly vague ; but so far as he forms any idea , it is that his mother's words are the expression of some mysterious but unreason- able ...
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... reality was the tallest . Now there was nothing wrong in his feeling a pride and pleasure in the thought that he was physically superior to his cousin , and though it was foolish for him to insist him- self on this superiority in a ...
... reality was the tallest . Now there was nothing wrong in his feeling a pride and pleasure in the thought that he was physically superior to his cousin , and though it was foolish for him to insist him- self on this superiority in a ...
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