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... suffered to grow by numbers , they make the spirit peevish , and the society troublesome , and the affections loose and uneasy by an habitual aversation . Some men are more vexed with a fly than with a wound ; and when the gnats disturb ...
... suffered to grow by numbers , they make the spirit peevish , and the society troublesome , and the affections loose and uneasy by an habitual aversation . Some men are more vexed with a fly than with a wound ; and when the gnats disturb ...
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... that man wants a name , and I know of none sufficiently emphatic , who denies his sympathy to a suffering woman , whose only sympat sin is a broken constitution , and whose calamity is A HELP TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS . 25.
... that man wants a name , and I know of none sufficiently emphatic , who denies his sympathy to a suffering woman , whose only sympat sin is a broken constitution , and whose calamity is A HELP TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS . 25.
Page 60
... suffer reason to come down and talk with us in the cool of the evening . Such , then , is the love on which marriage should be contracted ; love to the whole person ; love to the mind , and heart , and manners , as well as to the ...
... suffer reason to come down and talk with us in the cool of the evening . Such , then , is the love on which marriage should be contracted ; love to the whole person ; love to the mind , and heart , and manners , as well as to the ...
Page 79
... for their children , are not ashamed to beg it in our Sunday and charity schools . No man should suffer his family to be , in this respect , behind the age in which they live . To grudge the money spent A HELP TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS . 79.
... for their children , are not ashamed to beg it in our Sunday and charity schools . No man should suffer his family to be , in this respect , behind the age in which they live . To grudge the money spent A HELP TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS . 79.
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... suffer neither a favourite servant , nor a kind aunt , nor a doating grandpapa , to come between you and the welfare of your children . 4. Bring up your children with low notions of the im- portance of riches and worldly show , and of ...
... suffer neither a favourite servant , nor a kind aunt , nor a doating grandpapa , to come between you and the welfare of your children . 4. Bring up your children with low notions of the im- portance of riches and worldly show , and of ...
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Page 72 - And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 22 - He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward ; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
Page 140 - Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honour thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Page 40 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived ; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression ; notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety.
Page 26 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 24 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 32 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Page 41 - 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 159 - And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
Page 116 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!