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... season , and method of doing or leaving un- done . This is a valuable quality in a servant or apprentice ; when they can judge , without being continually told , -what is suitable to their circumstances and situation - what is most for ...
... season , and method of doing or leaving un- done . This is a valuable quality in a servant or apprentice ; when they can judge , without being continually told , -what is suitable to their circumstances and situation - what is most for ...
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... season , or one that is sur- rounded with thick woods . Agues , rheumatisms , and fevers are often occasioned thereby . 38. Water is a most essential accommodation . In some country places , great inconvenience and loss of time are occa ...
... season , or one that is sur- rounded with thick woods . Agues , rheumatisms , and fevers are often occasioned thereby . 38. Water is a most essential accommodation . In some country places , great inconvenience and loss of time are occa ...
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... season of the year . Coals are generally one - fourth dearer in winter than in summer ; in a severe winter a third ; and some- times even more than that . It is a moderate calculation , that one - eighth is saved by purchasing a stock ...
... season of the year . Coals are generally one - fourth dearer in winter than in summer ; in a severe winter a third ; and some- times even more than that . It is a moderate calculation , that one - eighth is saved by purchasing a stock ...
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... season , and at the best hand , a large quantity of coals , to be sold to the labour- ing classes , during the winter season , at cost price ; this is a cheap and effectual method of doing good , and where it is afforded , I should by ...
... season , and at the best hand , a large quantity of coals , to be sold to the labour- ing classes , during the winter season , at cost price ; this is a cheap and effectual method of doing good , and where it is afforded , I should by ...
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... seasons are made to provide for rent , clothing , and sickness , and to lay in a good stock of fuel , beer , flour , food for the pig , soap , & c . , and to leave the regular earn- ings to furnish the supply of food . Besides , it is ...
... seasons are made to provide for rent , clothing , and sickness , and to lay in a good stock of fuel , beer , flour , food for the pig , soap , & c . , and to leave the regular earn- ings to furnish the supply of food . Besides , it is ...
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Página 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 231 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; not with eye-service, as menpleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart...
Página 231 - Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
Página 88 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Página 228 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Página 11 - I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.
Página 231 - How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against my God ?
Página 207 - The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets.
Página 20 - I'll try if I can get it. Upon this he set down his basket in the road, and began to climb up the tree. He had half ascended, when, casting a look at his basket, he saw a dog with his nose in it, ferreting out the piece of kid's flesh.
Página 4 - HONESTY THE BEST POLICY. A NOBLEMAN travelling in Scotland, about six years ago, was asked for alms in the High street of Edinburgh, by a little ragged boy. He said he had no change ; upon which the boy offered to procure it. His lordship, in order to get rid of his importunity, gave him a piece of silver, and the boy conceiving it was to be changed, ran off for that purpose.