The Sacred Annual: A Gift for All SeasonsT. K. Collins, Jr., 1851 - 200 pages |
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... female character , and to have made their laws , and regulated their social institutions , in conformity to that low estimate . A despotism at once suspicious , capricious , and degrading was established , that rendered woman an abject ...
... female character , and to have made their laws , and regulated their social institutions , in conformity to that low estimate . A despotism at once suspicious , capricious , and degrading was established , that rendered woman an abject ...
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... female deities formed a part of the mythology of the people . A reference to facts , however , completely demonstrates the fallacy of this remark . The mythology of the Greeks and Ro- mans abounded with female deities , and yet the ...
... female deities formed a part of the mythology of the people . A reference to facts , however , completely demonstrates the fallacy of this remark . The mythology of the Greeks and Ro- mans abounded with female deities , and yet the ...
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... female dignity and purity consisted ; and even their female deities are embodiments of the passions rather than of the virtues . So true it is , that wherever woman is treated with injus- tice , national advancement is retarded , and ...
... female dignity and purity consisted ; and even their female deities are embodiments of the passions rather than of the virtues . So true it is , that wherever woman is treated with injus- tice , national advancement is retarded , and ...
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... female infants as votive offerings to sanguinary gods ; the immolation of the wife and female slaves on the funeral pyre of the husband , that he may have attendants to minister to him in a future state of existence - all attest the ...
... female infants as votive offerings to sanguinary gods ; the immolation of the wife and female slaves on the funeral pyre of the husband , that he may have attendants to minister to him in a future state of existence - all attest the ...
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... female name , attest the estimate formed of her spiritual and intellectual character . The reaction of this injustice on the national interests , collectively , is manifest . The manners are dull , the habits indolent , a lethargic ...
... female name , attest the estimate formed of her spiritual and intellectual character . The reaction of this injustice on the national interests , collectively , is manifest . The manners are dull , the habits indolent , a lethargic ...
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Page 171 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
Page 76 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 64 - But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.
Page 168 - Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist : notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
Page 95 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 170 - Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself ? He said. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Page 173 - And the king was sorry : nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
Page 149 - Now learn a parable of the fig tree ; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh : so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Page 63 - And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.
Page 169 - To give light to them that sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.