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And thus , as each child obtains a seat at the family table at meals as early as
they can be trusted in an elevated chair , they are used to ask for and to receive
all manner of varieties of food . Breakfasts , like all other meals in a country richly
...
And thus , as each child obtains a seat at the family table at meals as early as
they can be trusted in an elevated chair , they are used to ask for and to receive
all manner of varieties of food . Breakfasts , like all other meals in a country richly
...
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... their new - found hopes , mingle their sweet smiles and tears with your
sympathiesand precious it is to hear of little disciples , taught early by the Great
Teacher , who never made a soul too young to receive His influences , speaking
words of.
... their new - found hopes , mingle their sweet smiles and tears with your
sympathiesand precious it is to hear of little disciples , taught early by the Great
Teacher , who never made a soul too young to receive His influences , speaking
words of.
Page 23
too young to receive His influences , speaking words of resignation , of love , and
peace , to the weeping parents whom they are about to leave , and of hope and
joy of the welcoming Lord whose presence they are about to enter . On listening ...
too young to receive His influences , speaking words of resignation , of love , and
peace , to the weeping parents whom they are about to leave , and of hope and
joy of the welcoming Lord whose presence they are about to enter . On listening ...
Page 31
... and in consequence the Free Acadeiny has recently sprung up in the city of
New York , which receives youth who have attained all that the common school
offers , and who wish to advance to classical , mathematical , and scientific
studies .
... and in consequence the Free Acadeiny has recently sprung up in the city of
New York , which receives youth who have attained all that the common school
offers , and who wish to advance to classical , mathematical , and scientific
studies .
Page 74
Even when children are adopted in England , instances are to be seen of reserve
among common acquaintances to admit them , and receive them as they would
the children of the family — a piece of injustice , and want of sympathy with a ...
Even when children are adopted in England , instances are to be seen of reserve
among common acquaintances to admit them , and receive them as they would
the children of the family — a piece of injustice , and want of sympathy with a ...
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Page 116 - 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 77 - 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 145 - 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 316 - 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
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| Title | America as I Found it America as I Found it, Mary Grey Lundie Duncan Collections speciales |
| Author | Mary Grey Lundie Duncan |
| Publisher | J. Nisbet and Company, 1852 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 380 pages |
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