Cottage comforts, with hints for promoting them1841 - 80 páginas |
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... till , goes the way to ruin and misery . If a person surrounded with plenty yields to such temptations , what may they not be led to , when pinched with want , and surrounded by a starving family ? And if a child does not hold sacred ...
... till , goes the way to ruin and misery . If a person surrounded with plenty yields to such temptations , what may they not be led to , when pinched with want , and surrounded by a starving family ? And if a child does not hold sacred ...
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... till she almost believed it herself , and often uttered falsehoods before she was aware of them . 66 : At length , in an evil hour for him , a labouring man in the neighbourhood became acquainted with her , not at first with any ...
... till she almost believed it herself , and often uttered falsehoods before she was aware of them . 66 : At length , in an evil hour for him , a labouring man in the neighbourhood became acquainted with her , not at first with any ...
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... till he ought to be opening his shop shutters ; and then hurries down , slip - shod , unwashed , and hardly awake - who does nothing but what he is compelled to do , and retreats from duty the earliest possible moment , to yawn , or ...
... till he ought to be opening his shop shutters ; and then hurries down , slip - shod , unwashed , and hardly awake - who does nothing but what he is compelled to do , and retreats from duty the earliest possible moment , to yawn , or ...
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... till he had got on his way again . He returned to search for his bag , but could hear no tidings of it . Well , ' says he , ' my soup will be the thinner , but I will boil a slice of bread with it , and that will do it some good at ...
... till he had got on his way again . He returned to search for his bag , but could hear no tidings of it . Well , ' says he , ' my soup will be the thinner , but I will boil a slice of bread with it , and that will do it some good at ...
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... till he has attained what the opinion of his own class around him has deemed decent and fitting . The higher this scale of public opinion is kept , the better and the happier will the people be . It is widely different in different ...
... till he has attained what the opinion of his own class around him has deemed decent and fitting . The higher this scale of public opinion is kept , the better and the happier will the people be . It is widely different in different ...
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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.