Woman, as She Was, Is, and Should beS. W. Benedict, 1849 - 208 pages |
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... young . No , she will not learn , even from the strong pleadings of nature's instinct . It costs her labor , her attention , her thought , her self - denial , her abstinence from fashionable pleasures ; and she will not deny herself ...
... young . No , she will not learn , even from the strong pleadings of nature's instinct . It costs her labor , her attention , her thought , her self - denial , her abstinence from fashionable pleasures ; and she will not deny herself ...
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... young child ? ” I While she refuses obedience to these laws of God , while she suffers her child to draw its nourishment from the bosom of one who owes it no maternal regard , whose eye cannot look with the instinctive prophecy of a ...
... young child ? ” I While she refuses obedience to these laws of God , while she suffers her child to draw its nourishment from the bosom of one who owes it no maternal regard , whose eye cannot look with the instinctive prophecy of a ...
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eye cannot look with the instinctive prophecy of a mother into its young heart , and discern the very depths of its in- fant spirit , how can she ask God to render it a pure and holy being , worthy of the ultimate destiny of a soul cre ...
eye cannot look with the instinctive prophecy of a mother into its young heart , and discern the very depths of its in- fant spirit , how can she ask God to render it a pure and holy being , worthy of the ultimate destiny of a soul cre ...
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... young men , and one of the asses , that I may run to the man of God , and come again . And he said , Wherefore wilt thou go to him to - day ? it is neither new moon , nor Sabbath . And she said , It shall be well . " The whole account ...
... young men , and one of the asses , that I may run to the man of God , and come again . And he said , Wherefore wilt thou go to him to - day ? it is neither new moon , nor Sabbath . And she said , It shall be well . " The whole account ...
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... young lady of singular beauty , intelligence , and piety ; and admirably fitted to be the companion of such a man as President Edwards . Their union , which was a remarkably happy one , and the fruits of which were eleven children ...
... young lady of singular beauty , intelligence , and piety ; and admirably fitted to be the companion of such a man as President Edwards . Their union , which was a remarkably happy one , and the fruits of which were eleven children ...
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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.