A Gift for MothersR.B. Seeley, 1833 - 288 pages |
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... brought under subjection , it would no longer have the dominion . Satan would tempt , but his fiery darts would be met by the shield of faith ; death would still con- tinue his ravages , but his visits would be those of a friend and not ...
... brought under subjection , it would no longer have the dominion . Satan would tempt , but his fiery darts would be met by the shield of faith ; death would still con- tinue his ravages , but his visits would be those of a friend and not ...
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... brought to any form , but grown limbs will not bow . There is none in the world so likely as you to be instruments of their eternal good . You have advantages which none other has ; the interests you have in their affections , your ...
... brought to any form , but grown limbs will not bow . There is none in the world so likely as you to be instruments of their eternal good . You have advantages which none other has ; the interests you have in their affections , your ...
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... brought them forth , may have fixed a dagger in the heart of a friend , doomed there to rankle for ever ! And yet anger being a passion which quickly vents itself , and is then annihilated , is less generally obnoxious than peevishness ...
... brought them forth , may have fixed a dagger in the heart of a friend , doomed there to rankle for ever ! And yet anger being a passion which quickly vents itself , and is then annihilated , is less generally obnoxious than peevishness ...
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... no very accurate judgment can pre- viously be formed , are yet predestined to this universality of accomplishments . This comprehensive maxim , thus almost uni- versally brought into 86 ON CRAMPING THE MINDS OF CHILDREN .
... no very accurate judgment can pre- viously be formed , are yet predestined to this universality of accomplishments . This comprehensive maxim , thus almost uni- versally brought into 86 ON CRAMPING THE MINDS OF CHILDREN .
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Mary Atkinson Maurice. This comprehensive maxim , thus almost uni- versally brought into practice , at once weakens the general powers of the mind , by drawing off its strength , into too great a variety of directions , and cuts up time ...
Mary Atkinson Maurice. This comprehensive maxim , thus almost uni- versally brought into practice , at once weakens the general powers of the mind , by drawing off its strength , into too great a variety of directions , and cuts up time ...
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Page 190 - I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus: Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke : turn thou me, and I shall be turned, for thou art the Lord my God.
Page 146 - And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they and their children, and their children's children, for ever ; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
Page 177 - The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear the Lord, both small and great. The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Page 150 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Page 185 - Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Page 152 - Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee/ and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father...
Page 197 - And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him : for whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.
Page 146 - Thus saith the LORD, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night...
Page 148 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Page 157 - And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.