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Page 22
... 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.
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... and to see teachers using all manner of adroit flatteries and timid
expostulations , with a view to obtain a slender influence over the pupils , leads
one to look out anxiously for ultimate results . Natural quickness enables persons
to discern ...
... and to see teachers using all manner of adroit flatteries and timid
expostulations , with a view to obtain a slender influence over the pupils , leads
one to look out anxiously for ultimate results . Natural quickness enables persons
to discern ...
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Prayerful teaching accompanied by the earnest eloquence of a full heart , and the
original illustrations of a yearning spirit , never passes unrequited on this side the
Atlantic or on that - in the wilderness on this side the Jordan , or on the ...
Prayerful teaching accompanied by the earnest eloquence of a full heart , and the
original illustrations of a yearning spirit , never passes unrequited on this side the
Atlantic or on that - in the wilderness on this side the Jordan , or on the ...
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... will not , read the Scriptures , the Holy Book , and all teaching founded on it ,
are sparingly used in the Common Schools . How this comports with the order of
a country calling itself Christian , and essentially Christian in most of its
institutions ...
... will not , read the Scriptures , the Holy Book , and all teaching founded on it ,
are sparingly used in the Common Schools . How this comports with the order of
a country calling itself Christian , and essentially Christian in most of its
institutions ...
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This is optional , and , judging by delicate admonitions in the reports , it would
appear is omitted by some teachers . . If reading the Scriptures were steadily
observed , it could not be said that some classes , after learning to read , pass on
to ...
This is optional , and , judging by delicate admonitions in the reports , it would
appear is omitted by some teachers . . If reading the Scriptures were steadily
observed , it could not be said that some classes , after learning to read , pass on
to ...
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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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