The Early Choice; a Book for DaughtersT. Nelson and Sons, 1855 - 320 pages |
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... Religion - Sarah Martin , the Prisoner's Friend - Weak Things confounding the Mighty Page 150 173 CHAPTER XI . Olympia Morata - The Scholar - Sowing in Tears - The Early 191 CHAPTER XII . The Woman of the World , Madame de Stael - The ...
... Religion - Sarah Martin , the Prisoner's Friend - Weak Things confounding the Mighty Page 150 173 CHAPTER XI . Olympia Morata - The Scholar - Sowing in Tears - The Early 191 CHAPTER XII . The Woman of the World , Madame de Stael - The ...
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... religious truth — with a heart more open , a con- science more quick - little addicted to the subtleties of reasoning , but more prompt in intuitive percep- tion - woman receives through the medium of the heart what man regards too ...
... religious truth — with a heart more open , a con- science more quick - little addicted to the subtleties of reasoning , but more prompt in intuitive percep- tion - woman receives through the medium of the heart what man regards too ...
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... religion of the Saviour inspires . Let us trace the stages of that discipline as a model . When Laura entered upon her new sphere , she was much bewildered by the novelty of all that she felt . No attempt at formal training was made ...
... religion of the Saviour inspires . Let us trace the stages of that discipline as a model . When Laura entered upon her new sphere , she was much bewildered by the novelty of all that she felt . No attempt at formal training was made ...
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... religion drawn from the pure fountain - head - the Word of God , as the Holy Spirit guides to the truth . By religion of that type , the heart will be at once purified and ex- panded . Woman will learn to act in the spirit of her who ...
... religion drawn from the pure fountain - head - the Word of God , as the Holy Spirit guides to the truth . By religion of that type , the heart will be at once purified and ex- panded . Woman will learn to act in the spirit of her who ...
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... religion were gradually made known ; and the boy , heretofore so dark , and piteous , and defective , awoke to a new world - he became a remarkable manifestation of the power of grace . It was pains and prayer rewarded- it was another ...
... religion were gradually made known ; and the boy , heretofore so dark , and piteous , and defective , awoke to a new world - he became a remarkable manifestation of the power of grace . It was pains and prayer rewarded- it was another ...
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Page 116 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 241 - The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
Page 190 - Verily, I say unto you, wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she has done shall be spoken of, for a memorial of her.
Page 200 - esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Egypt.
Page 244 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 80 - How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command.
Page 28 - ... at once her countenance lighted up with a human expression. It was no longer a dog or parrot ; it was an immortal spirit eagerly seizing upon a new link of union with other spirits...
Page 15 - * such as become those that profess godliness," find record in the Book of Life. Sisters, are not our rights sufficiently comprehensive, the sanctuary of home, the throne of the heart, the moulding of the whole mass of mind, in its first formation ? Have we not power enough in all realms of sorrow and suffering, over all forms of want and ignorance, amid all ministries of love, from the cradle-dream to the sealing of the sepulchre...
Page 206 - Brother, fear not; greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world.
Page 64 - Tis reason's voice obey'd his glories crown: To give lost reason life, he pour'd his own. Believe, and show the reason of a man ; Believe, and taste the pleasure of a God; Believe, and look with triumph on the tomb.