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... expected by the seniors . A bright little fellow , it may be about nine years old , was asked in my hearing if he had been to Mr this morning . He said , " No , he thought it better not to go until his return from school . " I was a ...
... expected by the seniors . A bright little fellow , it may be about nine years old , was asked in my hearing if he had been to Mr this morning . He said , " No , he thought it better not to go until his return from school . " I was a ...
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... , I just want to see how it goes when it breaks . " " Well , Charles , if you must , you must , I suppose . " The watch was thrown , and , as was expected , flew into many pieces . Whether destruc- tiveness THE CHILDREN . 19.
... , I just want to see how it goes when it breaks . " " Well , Charles , if you must , you must , I suppose . " The watch was thrown , and , as was expected , flew into many pieces . Whether destruc- tiveness THE CHILDREN . 19.
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Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. expected , flew into many pieces . Whether destruc- tiveness was very large in the boy , or correctiveness very small in the parent , we leave each one to settle according to their fancy . The more rapid the ...
Mary Grey Lundie Duncan. expected , flew into many pieces . Whether destruc- tiveness was very large in the boy , or correctiveness very small in the parent , we leave each one to settle according to their fancy . The more rapid the ...
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... expects genuine freedom to use great plainness of speech , and that , in cases of this sort , the performance of duty demands it a painful evidence that in New York city , liberty is sliding gradually under an influence which domineers ...
... expects genuine freedom to use great plainness of speech , and that , in cases of this sort , the performance of duty demands it a painful evidence that in New York city , liberty is sliding gradually under an influence which domineers ...
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... expected of them . They are not treated as machines upon whom the teachers are to act , as they unfortunately sometimes are in England ; but as members of the community , who have a part to act themselves , and who are as much ...
... expected of them . They are not treated as machines upon whom the teachers are to act , as they unfortunately sometimes are in England ; but as members of the community , who have a part to act themselves , and who are as much ...
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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