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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... hours , with which a kind Providence once favoured me in your family , you will not think it strange that I am disposed , even at this late hour and great distance , to " cast one long- ing , lingering , look behind ; " and contrive in ...
... hours , with which a kind Providence once favoured me in your family , you will not think it strange that I am disposed , even at this late hour and great distance , to " cast one long- ing , lingering , look behind ; " and contrive in ...
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... hour after such fatigue as he suffered the day before . Mr. R-- has been up to the meat market al- ready , and is charged with selecting the poor- est piece on purpose , and paying the highest price that ever was . But now , as he has ...
... hour after such fatigue as he suffered the day before . Mr. R-- has been up to the meat market al- ready , and is charged with selecting the poor- est piece on purpose , and paying the highest price that ever was . But now , as he has ...
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... hour ago ; and every time her husband comes in , I should think she tried to mortify and pain him , did I not know ... hours , and feels in a pleasanter mood , she manifests no hearty desire to entertain this nearest of all relatives ...
... hour ago ; and every time her husband comes in , I should think she tried to mortify and pain him , did I not know ... hours , and feels in a pleasanter mood , she manifests no hearty desire to entertain this nearest of all relatives ...
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... hours in play and small talk . I see now the ten thousand advantages to be de- rived from being Christians when we are little children . Were I to live my life over again with my present feelings , I think I would di- rect my very first ...
... hours in play and small talk . I see now the ten thousand advantages to be de- rived from being Christians when we are little children . Were I to live my life over again with my present feelings , I think I would di- rect my very first ...
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... hour should , generally speaking , have its particular em- ployments . For instance , retire and rise at such an hour ; pass such an hour in your se- cret chamber , reading the Book of books , and communing with your own heart , and ...
... hour should , generally speaking , have its particular em- ployments . For instance , retire and rise at such an hour ; pass such an hour in your se- cret chamber , reading the Book of books , and communing with your own heart , and ...
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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.