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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... 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 this way to hold yet ...
... 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 this way to hold yet ...
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... kind , permit me to ask a few such questions as you have frequently put to yourself , in or- der to ascertain the propriety of your claim to the title of one who " looks well to the ways of her household . " ' Do I really de- sire my ...
... kind , permit me to ask a few such questions as you have frequently put to yourself , in or- der to ascertain the propriety of your claim to the title of one who " looks well to the ways of her household . " ' Do I really de- sire my ...
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... kind , will a young lady be effectu- ally cured , as soon as made to realize - not , as Dean Swift says , " That after all , she knows no more than a common school boy ; " for this may not be true : but that after all she has learnt or ...
... kind , will a young lady be effectu- ally cured , as soon as made to realize - not , as Dean Swift says , " That after all , she knows no more than a common school boy ; " for this may not be true : but that after all she has learnt or ...
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... kind and affectionate husband , and then speak of those greater obligations due to the public minis- ter , who holds the near and dear relation of husband . We so much oftener see what is wrong than what is right , I will first tell ...
... kind and affectionate husband , and then speak of those greater obligations due to the public minis- ter , who holds the near and dear relation of husband . We so much oftener see what is wrong than what is right , I will first tell ...
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... kind of colleague with her husband , and who , rather than fre- quent parties , visits the sick , the fatherless , and the widow ; instructs children , converses with sinners , and is literally a ' help - meet . Mrs. D-- also ; what an ...
... kind of colleague with her husband , and who , rather than fre- quent parties , visits the sick , the fatherless , and the widow ; instructs children , converses with sinners , and is literally a ' help - meet . Mrs. D-- also ; what an ...
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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.