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... hundred tatter- demalions would enter your door , in spite of the temptation of a dry seat and warm stove , if you give it such an opprobrious name . Benevolence is ingenious . It will not be balked by any obstacle that can be managed ...
... hundred tatter- demalions would enter your door , in spite of the temptation of a dry seat and warm stove , if you give it such an opprobrious name . Benevolence is ingenious . It will not be balked by any obstacle that can be managed ...
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... hundred creatures full of grimace , restlessness , trick , and temper , ready to fly to buffets , if but their neighbours touch them . A good man , with fire in his eye and zeal in his heart , tells them a little of Him who made and pre ...
... hundred creatures full of grimace , restlessness , trick , and temper , ready to fly to buffets , if but their neighbours touch them . A good man , with fire in his eye and zeal in his heart , tells them a little of Him who made and pre ...
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... hundred tired or failed to do by the adopted , as they would have done by their own , it was but one in the hundred . In the city of Boston we found two excellent sisters , who , not being able to gratify their benevo- lence by assuming ...
... hundred tired or failed to do by the adopted , as they would have done by their own , it was but one in the hundred . In the city of Boston we found two excellent sisters , who , not being able to gratify their benevo- lence by assuming ...
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... hundred and twenty . That these suffice for the wants of so wide a dominion , or that they are all equally sound in principle , or suc- cessful in teaching , cannot be said ; yet the zeal and energy which has raised so many seminaries ...
... hundred and twenty . That these suffice for the wants of so wide a dominion , or that they are all equally sound in principle , or suc- cessful in teaching , cannot be said ; yet the zeal and energy which has raised so many seminaries ...
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... hundred young men , is the scene where this novel plan seems to have most prospered . But in Illinois , Indiana , and New York , plans nearly similar are pursued with varying success . Many reasons concur to make this a most suitable ...
... hundred young men , is the scene where this novel plan seems to have most prospered . But in Illinois , Indiana , and New York , plans nearly similar are pursued with varying success . Many reasons concur to make this a most suitable ...
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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