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... toils beneath the waters , till reef joins reef , and islands spring up with golden fruitage and perennial verdure , so let the mother , " sitting down or walk- ing by the way , " in the nursery , the parlour , even from the death - bed ...
... toils beneath the waters , till reef joins reef , and islands spring up with golden fruitage and perennial verdure , so let the mother , " sitting down or walk- ing by the way , " in the nursery , the parlour , even from the death - bed ...
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... toil . I heard a lady , who had brought up a large family , say it was the " only period of a mother's perfect enjoyment . " At its expiration comes dentition , with a host of physical ills . The character begins to develope , and ...
... toil . I heard a lady , who had brought up a large family , say it was the " only period of a mother's perfect enjoyment . " At its expiration comes dentition , with a host of physical ills . The character begins to develope , and ...
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... toils , we struggle in vain . " Habit , if not resisted , " says St. Augus- tine , " becomes necessity . " The physical force of habit , is thus clearly illustrated by Dr. Combe : " A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated ...
... toils , we struggle in vain . " Habit , if not resisted , " says St. Augus- tine , " becomes necessity . " The physical force of habit , is thus clearly illustrated by Dr. Combe : " A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated ...
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... omnipotence of habit . For if the toiling atom beneath the waters is able to construct a reef which may make the proudest ship a wreck , shall we dare to look upon the slightest evil habit , and say it is 66 LETTERS TO MOTHERS .
... omnipotence of habit . For if the toiling atom beneath the waters is able to construct a reef which may make the proudest ship a wreck , shall we dare to look upon the slightest evil habit , and say it is 66 LETTERS TO MOTHERS .
Page 68
... the shrinking nerves require rest , and the demands of toil , and the claims upon painful thought , are perpetual . Efforts , which , to one in health 68 I FTTERS TO MOTHERS . LETTER VII LETTER VIIL ECONOMY EARLY CULTURE LETTER IX PAGE.
... the shrinking nerves require rest , and the demands of toil , and the claims upon painful thought , are perpetual . Efforts , which , to one in health 68 I FTTERS TO MOTHERS . LETTER VII LETTER VIIL ECONOMY EARLY CULTURE LETTER IX PAGE.
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Page 66 - For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Page 232 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God : I ant the Lord.
Page 251 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too...
Page 196 - Her cares," says her biographer, " extended .even to the animal creation ; while over her domestics she presided with the dispositions of a parent, providing for the improvement of their minds, the decency of their behaviour, and the propriety of their manners. She would have the skill and contrivance of every artificer used in her house, employed for the ease of her servants, and that they might suffer no inconvenience or hardship. Besides providing for the order, harmony, and peace of her family,...
Page 168 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Page 251 - I am come amongst you as you see at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
Page 293 - nay, it is my Saviour's shine. Now farewell world; welcome heaven. The day-star from on high hath visited my heart. Oh speak it when I am gone, and preach it at my funeral; God dealeth familiarly with man. I feel his mercy ; I see his majesty ; whether in the body, or out of the body I cannot tell, God knoweth ; but I see things that are unutterable.
Page 180 - Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken, not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.
Page 61 - Our time is like our money. When we change a guinea, the shillings escape as things of small account ; when we break a day by idleness in the morning, the rest of the hours lose their importance in our eye.