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Page 47 - Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child ; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Page 149 - THE last duty of parents to their children is that of giving them an education suitable to their station in life : a duty pointed out by reason, and of far the greatest importance of any.
Page 47 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Page 96 - Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.
Page 128 - And Jesus answered and said. Verily I say unto you. There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's...
Page 47 - For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Page 47 - Withhold not correction from the child; for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell,
Page 100 - Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.
Page 143 - Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it ? 10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand.
Page 138 - We bid,' said Pest and Famine, ' We bid for life* and limb ; Fever and pain and squalor Their bright young eyes shall dim. When children grow too many, We'll nurse them as our own, And hide them in secret places Where none may hear their moan.