The Young Woman's Friend, Or, The Duties, Trials, Loves, and Hopes of WomanWentworth, 1857 - 250 pages |
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... bound of her treachery . Duties of wives . intercourse of husbands and wives . to obey . Importance of understanding the conjugal relation . Sources of evil . 168 CHAPTER X. PROPRIETIES OF MARRIED LIFE . SARAI AND HAGAR CONTENTS . 9.
... bound of her treachery . Duties of wives . intercourse of husbands and wives . to obey . Importance of understanding the conjugal relation . Sources of evil . 168 CHAPTER X. PROPRIETIES OF MARRIED LIFE . SARAI AND HAGAR CONTENTS . 9.
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... bound fully to execute . Let loose from his hand , his daughter wandered upon the mountains , bewailing her fate , and preparing herself for her sad sacrifice . When the time had expired , she returned to her father , who did unto her ...
... bound fully to execute . Let loose from his hand , his daughter wandered upon the mountains , bewailing her fate , and preparing herself for her sad sacrifice . When the time had expired , she returned to her father , who did unto her ...
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... bound up in the heart of a child ; ' and that we must ever , like watchful husbandmen , be on our guard against it . " 6 How beautiful was the conduct of Jephthah's daughter , and what devotion to her father did she show when she said ...
... bound up in the heart of a child ; ' and that we must ever , like watchful husbandmen , be on our guard against it . " 6 How beautiful was the conduct of Jephthah's daughter , and what devotion to her father did she show when she said ...
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... bound to double circumspection . Not only her own happiness , but the honor of her hus- band and the welfare of her children , are bound up in her deportment . We hear little more of Rachel , after Jacob's return from the country of ...
... bound to double circumspection . Not only her own happiness , but the honor of her hus- band and the welfare of her children , are bound up in her deportment . We hear little more of Rachel , after Jacob's return from the country of ...
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... her child with Eli , to be trained for God , and returned to her home , to pray still for him . Almost all the history of Hannah is bound up in these few transactions . She appears to us not as a warrior 108 THE YOUNG WOMAN'S FRIEND .
... her child with Eli , to be trained for God , and returned to her home , to pray still for him . Almost all the history of Hannah is bound up in these few transactions . She appears to us not as a warrior 108 THE YOUNG WOMAN'S FRIEND .
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Abigail Abraham adorn altar beautiful behold blessing Boaz bosom bound called cast character child Christ Christian countenance daugh daughter death deeds Delilah drunkard drunkard's wife duty earth Esau father feelings female Florence Nightingale flowers friends girl give grace grief Hagar hand happy hath heard heart heaven holy hope husband influence intemperance Isaac Jacob Jephthah John Bunyan Laban lady LAURA GREENWOOD live look Lord marriage married mind Moab moral Nabal Nahor Naomi ness never night noble Orpah parents person Philistines piety pleasure poor prayer Queen of Sheba Rachel REBECCA EATON Rebekah religion religious Roselle Ruth Samson Sarai says sisters of charity society sorrow soul speak spirit tears tender thee thing thou Timnath tion told took true unto VALLEY OF SOREK virtues voice weep wives woman women words young youth
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Page 113 - Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gavest me, though unfelt, a kiss ; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ; Ah, that maternal smile, it answers yes...
Page 147 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE, AND LIVE.
Page 71 - And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place. And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye ? And they said, Of Haran are we. And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him. And he said unto them, Is he well ? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
Page 18 - As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd up and lost, from succour far...
Page 91 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 108 - For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him : therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Page 47 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Page 19 - Queen of this universe ! do not believe Those rigid threats of death : ye shall not die : How should you?
Page 24 - Man for the field and woman for the hearth : Man for the sword and for the needle she : Man with the head and woman with the heart: Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion.
Page 151 - Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal : for as his name is, so is he ; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him : but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.