Meliora, Volumes 9-10Partridge and Company, 1866 |
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... interest to the work . Another feature that will not fail to attract attention , is the literary character of many of these foreign charities . Some have their printing presses , and issue a cheap literature for their own use and that ...
... interest to the work . Another feature that will not fail to attract attention , is the literary character of many of these foreign charities . Some have their printing presses , and issue a cheap literature for their own use and that ...
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... interest of old servants and inmates , and knit all scattered workers into loving unity and power . The hint they give to us is a useful one , and well deserves consideration . We can scarcely say as much for some of the methods ...
... interest of old servants and inmates , and knit all scattered workers into loving unity and power . The hint they give to us is a useful one , and well deserves consideration . We can scarcely say as much for some of the methods ...
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... interest in maintaining the rules and regulations of his family , however multifarious these may be , and however cumbrous they may seem to be to those who stand outside . Such a thing as clannishness , however , is kept out with might ...
... interest in maintaining the rules and regulations of his family , however multifarious these may be , and however cumbrous they may seem to be to those who stand outside . Such a thing as clannishness , however , is kept out with might ...
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... interests are often involved . It will also be found that great and suddenly - arising causes , such as any of those before enumerated , insult , treachery , deliberate ingratitude or in- justice , or a direct conflict of principles ...
... interests are often involved . It will also be found that great and suddenly - arising causes , such as any of those before enumerated , insult , treachery , deliberate ingratitude or in- justice , or a direct conflict of principles ...
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... interest and sympathy may well be awakened by the consideration that every day makes addi- tions to the number of ... interest , must be better than toy - making and pastime , that the mind may be kept healthfully active and in a state ...
... interest and sympathy may well be awakened by the consideration that every day makes addi- tions to the number of ... interest , must be better than toy - making and pastime , that the mind may be kept healthfully active and in a state ...
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Page 102 - Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
Page 355 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 198 - These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise.
Page 283 - ... sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the approaching reformation, others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 198 - The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
Page 198 - That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.
Page 102 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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