Magdalen Facts: No. 1, JanuaryThe Author, 1832 - 104 pages |
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... courses of conduct , to occupy the places their deaths shall vacate ? Even now , subjects are daily supplying the ranks in which disease and murder are making daily havoc . So it has been for centuries . Shall it continue for centuries ...
... courses of conduct , to occupy the places their deaths shall vacate ? Even now , subjects are daily supplying the ranks in which disease and murder are making daily havoc . So it has been for centuries . Shall it continue for centuries ...
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... courses of con- duct , ask yourselves whether she has a father , a mother , a hus- band , a brother , or a child susceptible of feeling the reproach you are about to impose and to deepen on them . Make the case your own . Suppose her to ...
... courses of con- duct , ask yourselves whether she has a father , a mother , a hus- band , a brother , or a child susceptible of feeling the reproach you are about to impose and to deepen on them . Make the case your own . Suppose her to ...
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... course very limited , and her health requiring daily medical attention , she was returned to the hospital , and died there of a consumption induced by a profligate life , fulfilling that scripture , " The wicked shall not live out half ...
... course very limited , and her health requiring daily medical attention , she was returned to the hospital , and died there of a consumption induced by a profligate life , fulfilling that scripture , " The wicked shall not live out half ...
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... course of life . So much positive evil has been traced to these sources , that the managers deem it incumbent to suggest to the members of the society , whether application ought not to be made to competent au- thority to have them ...
... course of life . So much positive evil has been traced to these sources , that the managers deem it incumbent to suggest to the members of the society , whether application ought not to be made to competent au- thority to have them ...
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... course no man preached to them on this subject . Thou- sands are treading in their steps , and the vice stalks abroad in the land ; and where are the pulpits that utter the curses of the Lord against those who are addicted to ...
... course no man preached to them on this subject . Thou- sands are treading in their steps , and the vice stalks abroad in the land ; and where are the pulpits that utter the curses of the Lord against those who are addicted to ...
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Popular passages
Page 7 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 25 - Wash you, make you clean: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 9 - These six things doth the Lord hate: Yea, seven are an abomination unto him : A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Page 1 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 31 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it : but I found none.
Page 103 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...
Page 8 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 8 - Keep my commandments, and live ; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister;" and call understanding thy kinswoman : that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Page 30 - As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Page 103 - Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven ; for she loved much : but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.