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... Advantages of Poverty , Jet forth by Examples , Acts of Oblivion , not fo prudential Affaffines deferve what they defign , Avarice , an unaccountable Vice , Arria's Love to Pætus , defcanted , Atheism , a flat Contradiction to Senfe ...
... Advantages of Poverty , Jet forth by Examples , Acts of Oblivion , not fo prudential Affaffines deferve what they defign , Avarice , an unaccountable Vice , Arria's Love to Pætus , defcanted , Atheism , a flat Contradiction to Senfe ...
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... Advantage of our youthful Edu- cation . Indeed every good Beginning of this Kind arifes from Nature ; the great Progrefs of it , from the Precepts of Reafon ; and the final Ac- complishment of it , from a right Ufe , Exercise and ...
... Advantage of our youthful Edu- cation . Indeed every good Beginning of this Kind arifes from Nature ; the great Progrefs of it , from the Precepts of Reafon ; and the final Ac- complishment of it , from a right Ufe , Exercise and ...
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... Advantages , as well as the Conveniency and Reasonableness , of providing proper Masters or Miftreffes to inftruct our Children betimes , Male or Female , and to fur- nish their growing Judgments with the moft fubftantial Principles of ...
... Advantages , as well as the Conveniency and Reasonableness , of providing proper Masters or Miftreffes to inftruct our Children betimes , Male or Female , and to fur- nish their growing Judgments with the moft fubftantial Principles of ...
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... Advantage , by their niceft Performances . But I cannot forbear men- tioning alfo this Author's own Rhetorick ; which can never be too often read and revolv'd by the brightest Genius's or beft Orators , who delight in the charming Art ...
... Advantage , by their niceft Performances . But I cannot forbear men- tioning alfo this Author's own Rhetorick ; which can never be too often read and revolv'd by the brightest Genius's or beft Orators , who delight in the charming Art ...
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... Advantage of it , were always abfolv'd by the Senate for making Reprifals , or revenging the Injury by Way of Satisfaction . The Egyp- tians alfo were very fevere in their Punishment of Adulterers , by cutting off the Woman's Nose , and ...
... Advantage of it , were always abfolv'd by the Senate for making Reprifals , or revenging the Injury by Way of Satisfaction . The Egyp- tians alfo were very fevere in their Punishment of Adulterers , by cutting off the Woman's Nose , and ...
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Page 359 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Page 313 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it.
Page 116 - By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
Page 366 - ... shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work : the virgins that be her fellows shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. With joy and gladness shall they be brought : and shall enter into the King's palace. Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children : whom thou mayest make princes in all lands. I will remember thy name from one generation to another : therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.
Page 11 - The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
Page 118 - I acknowledge ; but the foundation and root is obedience to the golden rule of " doing to others as you would be done by," and bearing the precept in mind in little things as well as in great ones.
Page 211 - He doth not forbid honest and moderate forecast and provision, as if it were not lawful for- Christians to deal in matters appertaining to the good estate of this life; for he hath said unto Timothy, 1 Tim. v. If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely, for them of his household, he denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.