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... thought it better to send him out to learn a trade at a distance , than to let him idle about at home ; for Jack always preferred bird's - nesting and marbles to any other employment ; he would trifle away half the day , when his father ...
... thought it better to send him out to learn a trade at a distance , than to let him idle about at home ; for Jack always preferred bird's - nesting and marbles to any other employment ; he would trifle away half the day , when his father ...
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... thought only of the gains and advantages of the present day , and never took the future into the account . His wife managed him entirely , and , as she was really notable , he did not trouble his head about any thing farther . If she ...
... thought only of the gains and advantages of the present day , and never took the future into the account . His wife managed him entirely , and , as she was really notable , he did not trouble his head about any thing farther . If she ...
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... thought it would make Jack a gentleman , and set him above his brothers . Farmer Brown still hoped , that though Jack was likely to make but an idle and ignorant farmer , yet he might make no bad tradesman , when he should be removed ...
... thought it would make Jack a gentleman , and set him above his brothers . Farmer Brown still hoped , that though Jack was likely to make but an idle and ignorant farmer , yet he might make no bad tradesman , when he should be removed ...
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... thought was a saving of time , as it prevented their hindering their work on the Saturday . These shame- ful ... thoughts in his mind , and praying that the day might come when his conscience might be delivered from this grievous burden ...
... thought was a saving of time , as it prevented their hindering their work on the Saturday . These shame- ful ... thoughts in his mind , and praying that the day might come when his conscience might be delivered from this grievous burden ...
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... thought himself as accountable for their behaviour as if they had been his children . He was very kind to them , and had a cheerful merry way of talking to them ; so that the lads , who had seen too much of swearing , reprobate masters ...
... thought himself as accountable for their behaviour as if they had been his children . He was very kind to them , and had a cheerful merry way of talking to them ; so that the lads , who had seen too much of swearing , reprobate masters ...
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Page 296 - A new commandment give I unto you, that ye love one another.
Page 321 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 224 - Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour ; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Page 73 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Page 87 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 359 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause or cure!
Page 85 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 121 - They did promise and vow three things in my name. First, that I should renounce the devil and all his works, the pomps and vanities of this wicked world, and all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
Page 143 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 132 - When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.