The Mother's Assistant, Young Lady's Friend and Family ManualStore & Pratt, 1851 |
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... scenes , and according to an established custom Fred roared out " Yes ! " But what a face , what a tone of voice for a penitent ! Mrs. Flint must have read in my excited visage the thoughts that were passing through my mind , which were ...
... scenes , and according to an established custom Fred roared out " Yes ! " But what a face , what a tone of voice for a penitent ! Mrs. Flint must have read in my excited visage the thoughts that were passing through my mind , which were ...
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... scene ; Sparkling beneath his feet , were seen to glide Tibereas ' waters , waveless and serene . Before Him lay the city and the plain , The rich green meadows , waving fields of grain ; While round Him there , on every side , were ...
... scene ; Sparkling beneath his feet , were seen to glide Tibereas ' waters , waveless and serene . Before Him lay the city and the plain , The rich green meadows , waving fields of grain ; While round Him there , on every side , were ...
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... scenes all heavenly and divine . Well might they come , their hearts with love all glowing , Well might they come , their eyes with tears all flowing , And humbly worship at the Saviour's shrine . As the worn traveller greets the desert ...
... scenes all heavenly and divine . Well might they come , their hearts with love all glowing , Well might they come , their eyes with tears all flowing , And humbly worship at the Saviour's shrine . As the worn traveller greets the desert ...
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... scene was before her . Her father was storm- ing because supper was not on the table , though it was half an hour before the usual time ; but he was going to spend the evening at the quarters of a travelling circus , and as he had only ...
... scene was before her . Her father was storm- ing because supper was not on the table , though it was half an hour before the usual time ; but he was going to spend the evening at the quarters of a travelling circus , and as he had only ...
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... scenes of this brief life ; if they would as earnestly and faithfully inculcate upon their minds the great truths of Christianity as they do the maxims of a false and fleeting world ; if they would but take as much pains to secure the ...
... scenes of this brief life ; if they would as earnestly and faithfully inculcate upon their minds the great truths of Christianity as they do the maxims of a false and fleeting world ; if they would but take as much pains to secure 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.