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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... conversations , practical utility , you recol lect , used to be our proposed object . Many subjects , of course , of this nature , were suc- cessively brought up and canvassed . But it is almost always the case with me , ( I wish to ...
... conversations , practical utility , you recol lect , used to be our proposed object . Many subjects , of course , of this nature , were suc- cessively brought up and canvassed . But it is almost always the case with me , ( I wish to ...
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... conversation , we must be careful not to disgust by our impertinence , or shut their mouths by our reserve , and their hearts by our forbidding formality . This genuine politeness , however , is more an internal prin- ciple , than any ...
... conversation , we must be careful not to disgust by our impertinence , or shut their mouths by our reserve , and their hearts by our forbidding formality . This genuine politeness , however , is more an internal prin- ciple , than any ...
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... conversation . But if expressed in words , they would I think amount to nearly this ; active industry is the sole preserver of health , the great steward of livelihood , the protector of innocence , the saviour of virtue , the discarder ...
... conversation . But if expressed in words , they would I think amount to nearly this ; active industry is the sole preserver of health , the great steward of livelihood , the protector of innocence , the saviour of virtue , the discarder ...
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... conversation , and join in her fervent prayers . On every Saturday after- noon , the little girls meet with her also , for the same purpose . I doubt not she has , or will have , many spiritual children among these interesting groups of ...
... conversation , and join in her fervent prayers . On every Saturday after- noon , the little girls meet with her also , for the same purpose . I doubt not she has , or will have , many spiritual children among these interesting groups of ...
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... conversation . She told me how she pitied and how she prayed for her master's family . I thought to myself , did the great and honourable of this world know how much they were the objects of the despised Chris- tian's pity , and the ...
... conversation . She told me how she pitied and how she prayed for her master's family . I thought to myself , did the great and honourable of this world know how much they were the objects of the despised Chris- tian's pity , and the ...
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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.