The Mother's Assistant, Young Lady's Friend and Family ManualStore & Pratt, 1851 |
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... passing over it , all , all have left an indelible imprint . Though now we see them not , they wait but for the touch of recollection to bring them back to our full consciousness . The soul will be a book of judgment to itself , opened ...
... passing over it , all , all have left an indelible imprint . Though now we see them not , they wait but for the touch of recollection to bring them back to our full consciousness . The soul will be a book of judgment to itself , opened ...
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... passed through the little side entry . She thrust her head into the sitting - room , with an impatient ex- pression , as much as to say , " Pray , do n't stop me on any account , I am on business of the utmost importance ! " - - ' Ah ...
... passed through the little side entry . She thrust her head into the sitting - room , with an impatient ex- pression , as much as to say , " Pray , do n't stop me on any account , I am on business of the utmost importance ! " - - ' Ah ...
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... passed on , and Sara grew impatient of the long silence which followed the departure of her poem ; it created ... Passing by the nur- sery - door , which was half open , " O , I'm so lonely , " said Fanny , leaning over the bed and ...
... passed on , and Sara grew impatient of the long silence which followed the departure of her poem ; it created ... Passing by the nur- sery - door , which was half open , " O , I'm so lonely , " said Fanny , leaning over the bed and ...
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... passing through my mind , which were these : You are a professor of religion , a church member , and yet put yourself into a towering passion with your chil- dren . Perhaps a " still , small voice " said the same thing to her , for she ...
... passing through my mind , which were these : You are a professor of religion , a church member , and yet put yourself into a towering passion with your chil- dren . Perhaps a " still , small voice " said the same thing to her , for she ...
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... passing her arm around Willie , who had dropped his head upon the table , Aunt Debby said in a low , serious voice , " I should like , when father prays to- night , that he would ask God to judge between the poor widow and these cruel ...
... passing her arm around Willie , who had dropped his head upon the table , Aunt Debby said in a low , serious voice , " I should like , when father prays to- night , that he would ask God to judge between the poor widow and these cruel ...
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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.