The Women of the ScripturesLindsay and Blakiston, 1848 - 240 pages |
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... youth , and their sons in old age . " The parental despotism vested in the male parent consigns the daughter to a new master of his election , without regard to her choice . Enduring the caprices of the new tyrant with a patience which ...
... youth , and their sons in old age . " The parental despotism vested in the male parent consigns the daughter to a new master of his election , without regard to her choice . Enduring the caprices of the new tyrant with a patience which ...
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... youth in the truths of the Gospel , he forfeits the heavenly pleasure which she derives from an employment which angels might envy . If he disregards this duty as if it were beneath his manhood , he reflects upon the wisdom of Him who ...
... youth in the truths of the Gospel , he forfeits the heavenly pleasure which she derives from an employment which angels might envy . If he disregards this duty as if it were beneath his manhood , he reflects upon the wisdom of Him who ...
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... youth thus vowed by his mother to the Lord anointed the son of Jesse - Jesse from whom sprung the righteous branch , the Desire of the Nations . Time would fail us to dilate upon all , or even to enumerate them : - the Shunamite whose ...
... youth thus vowed by his mother to the Lord anointed the son of Jesse - Jesse from whom sprung the righteous branch , the Desire of the Nations . Time would fail us to dilate upon all , or even to enumerate them : - the Shunamite whose ...
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... youth - no apparent necessity for our no ties we have formed no duties we have left unfulfilled no convenient season for which we may be waiting nothing on earth can delay the hour in which it is decreed that we must die . God's ...
... youth - no apparent necessity for our no ties we have formed no duties we have left unfulfilled no convenient season for which we may be waiting nothing on earth can delay the hour in which it is decreed that we must die . God's ...
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... youth , the period in which the character is commonly formed and the future course directed . If these are favourable to knowledge and virtue , then the acquisition of these excellen- cies is not so much a matter of surprise , nor even ...
... youth , the period in which the character is commonly formed and the future course directed . If these are favourable to knowledge and virtue , then the acquisition of these excellen- cies is not so much a matter of surprise , nor even ...
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Popular passages
Page 122 - 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 ought but death part thee
Page 222 - And they say unto her, Woman, why weepest thou ? She saith unto them, Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.
Page 222 - And as they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail' And they came and held him by the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.
Page 102 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 162 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law : and if I perish, I perish.
Page 59 - Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great ; and thou shalt be a blessing : And I will bless them that bless thee : and curse him that curseth thee : and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Page 222 - Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not ; for I am not yet ascended to my Father ; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father ; and to my God and your God.
Page 113 - Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Page 66 - And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Page 22 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shall thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel.