Social evils, and their remedy, Volume 3Smith, Elder and Company, 1835 - Great Britain |
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... poor widow Barnes , the most indigent shop - keeper in the whole parish , a widow with a large family , or that thrifty couple the Alfords , to buy or sell on the Christian Sabbath . " Tis the law of the land , what the Levitical law ...
... poor widow Barnes , the most indigent shop - keeper in the whole parish , a widow with a large family , or that thrifty couple the Alfords , to buy or sell on the Christian Sabbath . " Tis the law of the land , what the Levitical law ...
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... poor labouring people , who cannot get paid by their masters till late on the Saturday evening , and they have no account with me , for indeed I think it a bad plan to let them run into debt : they bring their money in their hands , and ...
... poor labouring people , who cannot get paid by their masters till late on the Saturday evening , and they have no account with me , for indeed I think it a bad plan to let them run into debt : they bring their money in their hands , and ...
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... poor fellows altogether , -you who have had more religious advantages than they , - than help them to do what is wrong before God and man . Another thing I must add , with all this outcry about labour- ing men who cannot get paid till ...
... poor fellows altogether , -you who have had more religious advantages than they , - than help them to do what is wrong before God and man . Another thing I must add , with all this outcry about labour- ing men who cannot get paid till ...
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... poor Mr. Withers was always obliged to hurry back to his house before sunset ; but they supposed every body would be astonished at the marriage : they wondered how it had happened that they had never heard of it , and what would Emily ...
... poor Mr. Withers was always obliged to hurry back to his house before sunset ; but they supposed every body would be astonished at the marriage : they wondered how it had happened that they had never heard of it , and what would Emily ...
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... poor boy only opened his eyes and then his mouth at her string of hurried questionings , and stared in her face . At length he said , " You've been and made me drop my marble , you shook me so , " and then he tried to escape , that he ...
... poor boy only opened his eyes and then his mouth at her string of hurried questionings , and stared in her face . At length he said , " You've been and made me drop my marble , you shook me so , " and then he tried to escape , that he ...
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Page 88 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh ! with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 64 - He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Page 46 - I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Page 66 - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Page 65 - But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 40 - Know the Lord ; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Page 67 - For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake.
Page 75 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God...
Page 66 - But ye have not so learned Christ ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus...
Page 68 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.