Woman, as She Was, Is, and Should beS. W. Benedict, 1849 - 208 pages |
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... Waste- fulness of sin , 13 22 7236 30 CHAPTER II . THE INSPIRED MODEL . SECT . 1. DESCRIPTION OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN ; Probable Occasion of the Poem ; Elucidation ; Structure ; Impor- tance of such a character ; Customs among the Greeks ...
... Waste- fulness of sin , 13 22 7236 30 CHAPTER II . THE INSPIRED MODEL . SECT . 1. DESCRIPTION OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN ; Probable Occasion of the Poem ; Elucidation ; Structure ; Impor- tance of such a character ; Customs among the Greeks ...
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... waste her time , her talents , and property , in the most trifling pursuits , as though exemption from toil were exemption from the penalty of sin . She seems not to entertain one exalted thought , one true aspiration for duty . If she ...
... waste her time , her talents , and property , in the most trifling pursuits , as though exemption from toil were exemption from the penalty of sin . She seems not to entertain one exalted thought , one true aspiration for duty . If she ...
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... wastes is not her own . God never put it into her hands for such a purpose . He made her to become a mother , and fitted her to discharge that high and holy office ; and think you He will receive a substitute , hired with money which he ...
... wastes is not her own . God never put it into her hands for such a purpose . He made her to become a mother , and fitted her to discharge that high and holy office ; and think you He will receive a substitute , hired with money which he ...
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... work and eat their own bread . " We see here , that , so far from giving sanction to any man or woman to waste their property , by applying it to their own selfish gratification , God requires of them CONFORMITY TO THE WORLD . 35.
... work and eat their own bread . " We see here , that , so far from giving sanction to any man or woman to waste their property , by applying it to their own selfish gratification , God requires of them CONFORMITY TO THE WORLD . 35.
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... waste of anything . He will have no need to wrong his neighbors to gratify her demands . She will incite him , if a prince , to no predatory wars , that she may become a partaker of the spoil ; she will not demand the sacrifice of the ...
... waste of anything . He will have no need to wrong his neighbors to gratify her demands . She will incite him , if a prince , to no predatory wars , that she may become a partaker of the spoil ; she will not demand the sacrifice of the ...
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Page 105 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 135 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 14 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 13 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone ; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 103 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Page 35 - Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread.
Page 46 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives, while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 155 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Page 155 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 176 - Therefore let no man glory in men ; for all things are yours, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.