The Mother-tongue: Or, Methodical Instruction in the Mother-tongue in Schools and FamiliesJ.W. Parker, 1747 - 282 pages |
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... give it will be to state what originally led me to take this step . Having heard , while at Geneva , in the autumn of 1844 , of the remarkable success which had attended the system pursued by the Père Girard in the schools under his ...
... give it will be to state what originally led me to take this step . Having heard , while at Geneva , in the autumn of 1844 , of the remarkable success which had attended the system pursued by the Père Girard in the schools under his ...
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... give to the Developement of the Mind Exercises in Composition Detached Compositions Composition Exercises in Syntax PAGE 71 71 73 76 78 80 83 84 85 86 88 88 89 91 92 94 95 95 96 98 CHAPTER IV . Answer to Objections which have been , or ...
... give to the Developement of the Mind Exercises in Composition Detached Compositions Composition Exercises in Syntax PAGE 71 71 73 76 78 80 83 84 85 86 88 88 89 91 92 94 95 95 96 98 CHAPTER IV . Answer to Objections which have been , or ...
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... give us light and warmth ; to those flowers so various and so beautiful which gladden our eyes ; to those plants which supply the nourishing bread that we eat , and to the trees from which we gather cher- ries , and apples , and pears ...
... give us light and warmth ; to those flowers so various and so beautiful which gladden our eyes ; to those plants which supply the nourishing bread that we eat , and to the trees from which we gather cher- ries , and apples , and pears ...
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... give life to his children , in order afterwards to slay them ? Is it to be feared that the idea of spiritual truth having been implanted in childhood will afterwards go astray ? Is there not rather much more reason to fear that ...
... give life to his children , in order afterwards to slay them ? Is it to be feared that the idea of spiritual truth having been implanted in childhood will afterwards go astray ? Is there not rather much more reason to fear that ...
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... give the preference to the former . The same rigid morality would require that the idea of virtue should alone be our motive , and that divine authority should not be referred to : but here there is an evident fallacy . The Father on ...
... give the preference to the former . The same rigid morality would require that the idea of virtue should alone be our motive , and that divine authority should not be referred to : but here there is an evident fallacy . The Father on ...
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Page 238 - Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Page 161 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my Gospel.
Page 174 - ... that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 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 193 - And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 241 - Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; Thou hast put all things under his feet : All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, And whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
Page 210 - And now I say unto. you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone : for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Page 241 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands : and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 208 - An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign ; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Page 208 - The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ?
Page 250 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.