The Mother's Assistant, Young Lady's Friend and Family ManualStore & Pratt, 1851 |
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... heard her voice behind the house , calling for water for her lye - tub . I went to the back window ; but she was now in front of the house getting wood . All this time she had kept up a kind of running con- versation with me . I had an ...
... heard her voice behind the house , calling for water for her lye - tub . I went to the back window ; but she was now in front of the house getting wood . All this time she had kept up a kind of running con- versation with me . I had an ...
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... heard Abby in the kitchen getting supper , and warbling like a bird . Willie came into the room . for a piece of cord , which was cheerfully furnished from his mother's work - basket ; then he wanted to borrow her scissors , which were ...
... heard Abby in the kitchen getting supper , and warbling like a bird . Willie came into the room . for a piece of cord , which was cheerfully furnished from his mother's work - basket ; then he wanted to borrow her scissors , which were ...
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... heard of her darling , she was dead ! Then the mother had nothing to love but her boy ; for about this time some unfeeling creditors drove them from the beautiful cottage , and they were obliged to live in a gloomy hut , where they had ...
... heard of her darling , she was dead ! Then the mother had nothing to love but her boy ; for about this time some unfeeling creditors drove them from the beautiful cottage , and they were obliged to live in a gloomy hut , where they had ...
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... heard on that holy morn , Told waiting seraph bands the Son of God was born ! The Prince of Heaven ! where rests the infant now ? In pomp , in glory did He come to earth ? What jewelled crown awaits His regal brow , What place renowned ...
... heard on that holy morn , Told waiting seraph bands the Son of God was born ! The Prince of Heaven ! where rests the infant now ? In pomp , in glory did He come to earth ? What jewelled crown awaits His regal brow , What place renowned ...
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... heard the door open suddenly , and as suddenly shut , upon which she found deposited in her entry , by an unknown hand , a basket crowded with articles of food , which had all the sweetness of manna to her . Many days elapsed before the ...
... heard the door open suddenly , and as suddenly shut , upon which she found deposited in her entry , by an unknown hand , a basket crowded with articles of food , which had all the sweetness of manna to her . Many days elapsed before the ...
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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.