Manners: Or, Happy Homes and Good Society All the Year RoundJ. E. Tilton, 1868 - 377 pages |
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... Christian nation and every Jewish family in the world join us in this Thanksgiving , on the last Thursday in November ? - - The Anglo - Saxon peoples have another bond of unity , they represent home - life , in its highest ...
... Christian nation and every Jewish family in the world join us in this Thanksgiving , on the last Thursday in November ? - - The Anglo - Saxon peoples have another bond of unity , they represent home - life , in its highest ...
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... Christ was born . When " God sent forth His Son , made of a woman , " the power of moral ideas was re- vealed ; and American men have learned how to use them . Take a newspaper or book as an engine , place it in the homes of the people ...
... Christ was born . When " God sent forth His Son , made of a woman , " the power of moral ideas was re- vealed ; and American men have learned how to use them . Take a newspaper or book as an engine , place it in the homes of the people ...
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... Christ , has wrought in the condition of men and women ? Did you think , that , to this source we must look for all the blessed privileges we enjoy as a nation ? American insti- tutions are founded on Christ's Gospel of " peace on earth ...
... Christ , has wrought in the condition of men and women ? Did you think , that , to this source we must look for all the blessed privileges we enjoy as a nation ? American insti- tutions are founded on Christ's Gospel of " peace on earth ...
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... Christ's ministry of love in its national influences . The blessings it has brought to individual life , family enjoyments , social happiness , and human improvement , are as much beyond our powers of computation as the round of the ...
... Christ's ministry of love in its national influences . The blessings it has brought to individual life , family enjoyments , social happiness , and human improvement , are as much beyond our powers of computation as the round of the ...
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... Christian nation . One part of my plan is to set manners of good society . " — forth the " customs and There are in the words of Christ seven precepts for the guidance of life , which Americans should hold as rules of conduct and ...
... Christian nation . One part of my plan is to set manners of good society . " — forth the " customs and There are in the words of Christ seven precepts for the guidance of life , which Americans should hold as rules of conduct and ...
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Page 307 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 76 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry ; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
Page 225 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 76 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom ; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 331 - This day is holy unto the LORD your God ; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared : for this day is holy unto our Lord : neither be ye sorry ; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
Page 27 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Page 275 - When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
Page 76 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 154 - Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Page 25 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.