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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... true happiness himself , who is not possessed of a dispo- sition to wish and strive for the greatest possible happiness of others , to the utmost extent of his knowledge and abilities . But all are not thus . And even of those who are ...
... true happiness himself , who is not possessed of a dispo- sition to wish and strive for the greatest possible happiness of others , to the utmost extent of his knowledge and abilities . But all are not thus . And even of those who are ...
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... true happiness , they must be enabled to form habits of self - denial ? Am I therefore convinced of the importance of re- straining them , and correcting them when wrong ? And do I practise according to all these convictions ? Is it ...
... true happiness , they must be enabled to form habits of self - denial ? Am I therefore convinced of the importance of re- straining them , and correcting them when wrong ? And do I practise according to all these convictions ? Is it ...
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... common school boy ; " for this may not be true : but that after all she has learnt or can learn here , she actually knows nothing at all to perfection , not even how a single abroad . And by no one thing , perhaps , 39.
... common school boy ; " for this may not be true : but that after all she has learnt or can learn here , she actually knows nothing at all to perfection , not even how a single abroad . And by no one thing , perhaps , 39.
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... true wisdom , proclaims the nature and end of all genuine instruction . Are children necessita- ted to acquire easy manners by a proper de- gree of intercourse with the world ? Beware , ' she whispers , lest you follow its bad exam ...
... true wisdom , proclaims the nature and end of all genuine instruction . Are children necessita- ted to acquire easy manners by a proper de- gree of intercourse with the world ? Beware , ' she whispers , lest you follow its bad exam ...
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... true worth of their money - viz . just as much as it does of good in the world , and no more ; -which indeed , after all , is not theirs ; but is due , a great part of it , to their brethren in distress , and all of it to their Heavenly ...
... true worth of their money - viz . just as much as it does of good in the world , and no more ; -which indeed , after all , is not theirs ; but is due , a great part of it , to their brethren in distress , and all of it to their Heavenly ...
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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.