The Mother at Home: Or, The Principles of Maternal Duty Familiarly IllustratedReligious Tract Society, 1835 - 177 pàgines |
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The Mother at Home; or, the principles of maternal duty, familiarly ... John Stevens Cabot ABBOTT Visualització completa - 1856 |
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The Mother at Home: Or, The Principles of Maternal Duty John Stevens Cabot Abbott Visualització de fragments - 1972 |
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Pàgina 141 - What I've committed to His hands, Till the decisive hour. 4 Then will He own my worthless name Before His Father's face, And in the New Jerusalem Appoint my soul a place.
Pàgina 140 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on His breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
Pàgina 140 - A FRIEND THAT STICKETH CLOSEB THAN A UKOT1I EH. — Prov. 10 : 24. 1 ONE there is, above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend ; His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end.
Pàgina 124 - I in the burying place may see Graves shorter there than I; From death's arrest no age is free, Young children too may die; My God, may such an awful sight, Awakening be to me! Oh! that by early Grace I might For death prepared be.
Pàgina 138 - A definite idea is introduced to the youthful mind, when you speak of Him who took little children in his arms and blessed them.
Pàgina 104 - It seemed, in short, as if nothing was more vexatious to one of these officers than to discover things so correct as to afford him no good opportunity for finding fault ; while to the other, the necessity of censuring really appeared a punishment to himself. " Under the one, accordingly, we all worked with cheerfulness, from a conviction that nothing we did in a proper way would miss approbation. " But our duty under the other, being performed in fear, seldom went on with much spirit. We had no personal...
Pàgina 9 - They were greatly surprised and delighted, on finding that, out of one hundred and twenty students, more than a hundred had been blessed by a mother's prayers, and directed by a mother's counsels to the Saviour.
Pàgina 102 - ... way on principle. The attention of the other officer, on the contrary, appeared to be directed chiefly to those points which he could approve of. For instance, he would stop as he went along, from time to time, and say to the first lieutenant, ' Now, these ropes are very nicely arranged ; this mode of stowing the men's bags and mess kids is just as I wish to see it...
Pàgina 44 - What letter is that my son?' said his mother. 'A,' said John. He was evidently perfectly subdued. The rest of the children were sitting by, and they saw the contest, and they saw where was the victory; and John learned a lesson which he never forgot; he learned never again to wage such an unequal warfare — he learned that it was the safest and happiest course for him to obey.
Pàgina 101 - But let a mother approve of her child's conduct wherever she can; let her show that his good behaviour makes her sincerely happy ; let her reward him for his efforts to please by smiles and affection. In this way she will cherish in her child's heart some of the noblest and most desirable feelings of our nature.