The ladies calling, by the author of The whole duty of man. [Another]

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Página 231 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Página 245 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Página 39 - She openeth her Mouth with Wifdom, and in her Tongue is the Law of Kindnefs.
Página 164 - Wild as herfelf ) thinks fhe does but walk abroad with her Gaoler. But the Right of the Parent is fo undoubted, that we find GOD Himfelf gives way to it, and will not fuffer the moft Holy Pretence, no, not that of a Vow to Invade it, as we fee in Numb.
Página 240 - There is yet a third Particular wherein any great Difproportion is much to be avoided, and that is in Years. The Humours of Youth and Age differ fo widely, that there had need be a great deal of Skill to compofe the Difcord into a Harmony. When a young Woman marries an old Man, there are commonly...
Página 31 - ... to God's ! How does it enervate and enfeeble any calamity ! nay, indeed, it triumphs over it, and, by that conjunction with him that ordains it, may be faid to command even what it fuffers.
Página 33 - tis otherwife, where a Woman has no guide but her Will, and her Will is nothing but her humour : the event is fure to be fatal to her felf, and often to others alfo.
Página 151 - Every indecent curiofity, or impure fancy, is a deflowring of the mind, and every the leaft corruption of them, gives fome degrees of defilement to the body too. • For between the ftate of pure immaculate...
Página 60 - The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water; therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

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