Magdalen Facts: No. 1, JanuaryThe Author, 1832 - 104 pages |
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Page 19
... happy . My mother was a very pious woman ; but my father , unfortunately , was a Deist . In child- hood I seldom saw an unhappy hour ; indulged in every little foolish extravagance my vain heart could wish . Idolized by my parents ...
... happy . My mother was a very pious woman ; but my father , unfortunately , was a Deist . In child- hood I seldom saw an unhappy hour ; indulged in every little foolish extravagance my vain heart could wish . Idolized by my parents ...
Page 20
... happy , and thought it would always last . All my affection and love was centred in those two dear beings . Often I sat and listened in rap- ture ( as he hung over our little one , ) to his protestations , and that he ne'er would ...
... happy , and thought it would always last . All my affection and love was centred in those two dear beings . Often I sat and listened in rap- ture ( as he hung over our little one , ) to his protestations , and that he ne'er would ...
Page 43
... happy art of re- trieving it with dignity . Having committed herself , that commit- ment often becomes the first link in a series of actions that stains the character and blasts the fairest prospects that ever opened to the eye of youth ...
... happy art of re- trieving it with dignity . Having committed herself , that commit- ment often becomes the first link in a series of actions that stains the character and blasts the fairest prospects that ever opened to the eye of youth ...
Page 45
... happy in the consciousness of right , being seduced by the deceiving arts of a villain , and after passing through the variety of scenes which are usually the routine of such unfortunates , at length reduced to the utmost misery ...
... happy in the consciousness of right , being seduced by the deceiving arts of a villain , and after passing through the variety of scenes which are usually the routine of such unfortunates , at length reduced to the utmost misery ...
Page 49
... happy female almost naked and perishing on a truss of straw , who had just strength enough to tell him she was turned out by an inhu- man landlord in that state , and to beg his charitable assistance not to let her die in the street ...
... happy female almost naked and perishing on a truss of straw , who had just strength enough to tell him she was turned out by an inhu- man landlord in that state , and to beg his charitable assistance not to let her die in the street ...
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Anti-Magdalen asked atheistical attention Bellevue benevolent blood brothels brother called cause character charity child Christ Christian committee crime Daily Sentinel daugh daughters debauchees degraded desire disgrace door entered evil eyes father feelings Five Points furnished Genius of Temperance gentleman girl goeth guilty hand happy hath heart hope hospital house of refuge infamous institution irreligion J. R. MCDOWALL Jesus keeper labors lady laudanum licentiousness live look Lord Magdalen asylum Magdalen report marriage matron meeting mind misery moral mother Newburgh night night room pain parents persons pleasure preaching prison procuress prostitution received reform replied rescue ruin sabbath sabbath school saith seducer sins sisters soul stranger street Sunday mail Tammany Hall tears thee thine things thou hast thought tion told unto vice vicious virtue virtuous wicked woman women York Magdalen Society young
Popular passages
Page 7 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 25 - Wash you, make you clean: put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Page 9 - These six things doth the Lord hate: Yea, seven are an abomination unto him : A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Page 1 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 31 - And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it : but I found none.
Page 103 - Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the LORD, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the LORD Almighty...
Page 8 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain ; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 8 - Keep my commandments, and live ; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister;" and call understanding thy kinswoman : that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Page 30 - As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you. Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.
Page 103 - Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven ; for she loved much : but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.