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... CHILDREN , 14 CHAPTER III . THE COMMON SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY , 30 CHAPTER IV . SABBATH - SCHOOLS , 49 CHAPTER V. 66 THE BOYS ' MEETING , " 58 CHAPTER VI . ADOPTED CHILDREN , 73 b PAGE CHAPTER VII . COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS , 82 CHAPTER VIII.
... CHILDREN , 14 CHAPTER III . THE COMMON SCHOOLS AND THE ACADEMY , 30 CHAPTER IV . SABBATH - SCHOOLS , 49 CHAPTER V. 66 THE BOYS ' MEETING , " 58 CHAPTER VI . ADOPTED CHILDREN , 73 b PAGE CHAPTER VII . COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS , 82 CHAPTER VIII.
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Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. CHAPTER II . THE CHILDREN . OUR ancestors are the root of the tree , our aged the trunk , our youths the branches , and our children . the coronal of leaves and blossoms - and who that anticipates the future ...
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. CHAPTER II . THE CHILDREN . OUR ancestors are the root of the tree , our aged the trunk , our youths the branches , and our children . the coronal of leaves and blossoms - and who that anticipates the future ...
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... child . The little citizen seems to feel at a surprisingly early age that he has a part to act on the stage of the ... children are not at home , you will be shewn their pictures or told their histories ; or , if the arrow of death has ...
... child . The little citizen seems to feel at a surprisingly early age that he has a part to act on the stage of the ... children are not at home , you will be shewn their pictures or told their histories ; or , if the arrow of death has ...
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... , and the leading youth adjusts himself to stand at a window , without visible direction from the ladies . I have also seen a child , a year older at B most , according to the rule of politeness and consid- THE CHILDREN . 17.
... , and the leading youth adjusts himself to stand at a window , without visible direction from the ladies . I have also seen a child , a year older at B most , according to the rule of politeness and consid- THE CHILDREN . 17.
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... children would have been guided and paid for . There is no air of as- sumption in the doing of such small services . seems natural , and expected by the seniors . A bright little fellow , it may be about nine years old , was asked in my ...
... children would have been guided and paid for . There is no air of as- sumption in the doing of such small services . seems natural , and expected by the seniors . A bright little fellow , it may be about nine years old , was asked in my ...
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Page 118 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his trouble;" but this ought to be, and might be, the experience of every praying heart, were it not for lurking unbelief. In some of our Scottish prayer-meetings, I have felt a degree of distraction of purpose, and want of
Page 79 - orphans, in their Asylum at New York— " Uncle Sam * is rich enough To give us all a farm." The facility with which enough, and more than enough, is found to satisfy every hungry mouth on a farm, gives wonderful scope to the benevolent sentiment. Compassion needs but to well up at its
Page 147 - shining hair ; She is leaving the home of her childhood's mirth, She hath bid farewell to her father's hearth; Her place is now by another's side— Bring flowers for the locks of the fair young bride!" Then was wheeled in a table with the mighty cake, which is as much a " chieftain" at an American as at a British wedding. From it the groomsmen procured their
Page 318 - Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him;" or, " That thou bear no sin for him." Let us turn from this desolate landscape, and gladly survey a new scene which begins to open