The Christian Father's Present to His Children, Volume 2Jonathan Leavitt, 1827 |
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... racter , rushing upon his ruin . All the evils that can waste his property , corrupt his morals , blast his reputation , impair his health , embitter his life , and destroy his soul , lurk in the purlieus of a theatre . Vice , in every ...
... racter , rushing upon his ruin . All the evils that can waste his property , corrupt his morals , blast his reputation , impair his health , embitter his life , and destroy his soul , lurk in the purlieus of a theatre . Vice , in every ...
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... racter , and thus enlarges the sphere of our use- fulness . On the subject of accomplishments , then , my views are sufficiently explicit . The greater part of them I by no means condemn . Custom has rendered them necessary , religion ...
... racter , and thus enlarges the sphere of our use- fulness . On the subject of accomplishments , then , my views are sufficiently explicit . The greater part of them I by no means condemn . Custom has rendered them necessary , religion ...
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... racter , I very urgently recommend the perusal of Mrs. Hannah More's " Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education : " for al- though this work is more particularly intended for mothers , it may be read with immense ad- vantage ...
... racter , I very urgently recommend the perusal of Mrs. Hannah More's " Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education : " for al- though this work is more particularly intended for mothers , it may be read with immense ad- vantage ...
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... racter before they admire it ; remembering that , to borrow an allusion from chymistry , a deadly poison may be held in solution by the most beautifully - coloured liquid which the eye can be- hold . 5. An extreme dread of singularity ...
... racter before they admire it ; remembering that , to borrow an allusion from chymistry , a deadly poison may be held in solution by the most beautifully - coloured liquid which the eye can be- hold . 5. An extreme dread of singularity ...
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... racter , nor opposed to any of the lawful possess- ions of the present world . But the question to be decided is , What is the chief end of man ? Now the definition which I would give of this is as follows : " It must be an object ...
... racter , nor opposed to any of the lawful possess- ions of the present world . But the question to be decided is , What is the chief end of man ? Now the definition which I would give of this is as follows : " It must be an object ...
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Page 51 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 24 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 68 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 117 - O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord...
Page 69 - Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the Lord's name is to be praised.
Page 153 - And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Page 67 - She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 126 - Whosoever, therefore, shall confess me before men, him will I confess before my Father which is in heaven ; but whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Page 44 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Page 153 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.