The Mother's Assistant, Young Lady's Friend and Family ManualStore & Pratt, 1851 |
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... bear on the young con- science and heart ; where sinful passions are promptly met by a strong repressing hand ; where a wholesome discipline fol- lows quickly and firmly , yet kindly , upon the footsteps of the wanderer ; where ...
... bear on the young con- science and heart ; where sinful passions are promptly met by a strong repressing hand ; where a wholesome discipline fol- lows quickly and firmly , yet kindly , upon the footsteps of the wanderer ; where ...
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... Bear nobly on , and yield not to despair . Sow the good seed , and after years may tell , That not in vain on the heart's soil it fell . Mother , hope ever- toil with brave heart on , The looked - for goal shall sure at last be won ...
... Bear nobly on , and yield not to despair . Sow the good seed , and after years may tell , That not in vain on the heart's soil it fell . Mother , hope ever- toil with brave heart on , The looked - for goal shall sure at last be won ...
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... bear a few knotty , crabbed apples , so sour as to disclaim all relationship to Eden's gar- den apples ; but knotty , sour , and crabbed as they were , they were all the fruit which Roxy had ; and the rusty - looking old black cat that ...
... bear a few knotty , crabbed apples , so sour as to disclaim all relationship to Eden's gar- den apples ; but knotty , sour , and crabbed as they were , they were all the fruit which Roxy had ; and the rusty - looking old black cat that ...
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... bears with it more . " The sudden images of vanished things , The shadows of the past , which come and go , As o'er the deep , the long unburied things , Which a storm's working to the surface brings . " We recall the days of our ...
... bears with it more . " The sudden images of vanished things , The shadows of the past , which come and go , As o'er the deep , the long unburied things , Which a storm's working to the surface brings . " We recall the days of our ...
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... bear them along . Hence , persons are led astray and bewildered by them . So youthful minds are lured astray by pleasure's roseate hues , by honor's glittering bauble , or fiction's fleecy form . Be- ware of meteor lights , reader ...
... bear them along . Hence , persons are led astray and bewildered by them . So youthful minds are lured astray by pleasure's roseate hues , by honor's glittering bauble , or fiction's fleecy form . Be- ware of meteor lights , reader ...
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Page 143 - Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Page 6 - Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Page 64 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 13 - And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it.
Page 189 - And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him...
Page 187 - For home he had not: home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.
Page 118 - Oh! there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude.
Page 187 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 15 - How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips ! Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it, Though filled with the nectar that Jupiter sips.