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... mean Christian principle . " The Americans are by nature frank , brave , cordial , hospitable , and affectionate cultivation and refinement seem but to enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm , and it is the 12 INTRODUCTORY .
... mean Christian principle . " The Americans are by nature frank , brave , cordial , hospitable , and affectionate cultivation and refinement seem but to enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm , and it is the 12 INTRODUCTORY .
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... means of adding to both the strength and beauty of the full - grown man ? Children's diseases are hasty , and come with a fell swoop , desolating cities and hearts - O how deso- lating ! Who can compute the pungency of the parents ...
... means of adding to both the strength and beauty of the full - grown man ? Children's diseases are hasty , and come with a fell swoop , desolating cities and hearts - O how deso- lating ! Who can compute the pungency of the parents ...
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... means of just parental discipline - and it is certain that he will render the more healthful obedience to the laws of his country , and more reverential observance of the laws of God , by his being accustomed to observe the laws of his ...
... means of just parental discipline - and it is certain that he will render the more healthful obedience to the laws of his country , and more reverential observance of the laws of God , by his being accustomed to observe the laws of his ...
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... means of education . this department it is very pleasant to adopt the language at which one is apt to smile when you hear its mistaken application on some other sub- jects , and to say gladly , that " no country in the world " has a ...
... means of education . this department it is very pleasant to adopt the language at which one is apt to smile when you hear its mistaken application on some other sub- jects , and to say gladly , that " no country in the world " has a ...
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... mean schools for the common people , but schools common to and suited for all . The basis of edu- cation is satisfactory so far as it goes ; but while for the multitude this is as much as their destined occupations permit them to reach ...
... mean schools for the common people , but schools common to and suited for all . The basis of edu- cation is satisfactory so far as it goes ; but while for the multitude this is as much as their destined occupations permit them to reach ...
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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