Infant Education; Or Remarks on the Importance of Educating the Infant Poor, from the Age of Eighteen Months to Seven Years: With an Account of the Spitalfields' Infant School, and the System of Instruction There Adopted. To which is Added, the Latest Improvements, and a List of Schools Already Established, in England

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Simpkin, 1825 - 288 pages

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Page 15 - Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.
Page 112 - JESUS answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 107 - And he told it to his father, and to his brethren : and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed ? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth ? And his brethren envied him ; but his father observed the saying.
Page 118 - Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, "O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.
Page 108 - And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.
Page 118 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Page 111 - And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them ; and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived : And Israel said, It is enough ; Joseph my son is yet alive : I will go and see him before I die.
Page 215 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 211 - The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Page 211 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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