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... numerous trials , and in fact to " die daily . " Hitherto , however , no attempt seems to have been made to delineate this position of the female convert in the primitive ages , though we have not been left without light on this highly ...
... numerous trials , and in fact to " die daily . " Hitherto , however , no attempt seems to have been made to delineate this position of the female convert in the primitive ages , though we have not been left without light on this highly ...
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... numerous , that the Emperor , under pretence of employing them in the wars , sent above four thousand to Sar- dinia , and ordered the rest to renounce their religion , or depart from Italy . They were again banished in the reign of the ...
... numerous , that the Emperor , under pretence of employing them in the wars , sent above four thousand to Sar- dinia , and ordered the rest to renounce their religion , or depart from Italy . They were again banished in the reign of the ...
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... numerous instances of this sin- gular species of power . What was , if pos- sible , still more arbitrary , the wife , even if the mother of a large family , was , no less than her children , under the despotic control of her husband ...
... numerous instances of this sin- gular species of power . What was , if pos- sible , still more arbitrary , the wife , even if the mother of a large family , was , no less than her children , under the despotic control of her husband ...
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... numerous and painful proofs of the cruelty and contempt with which this unhappy class of our fellow creatures were treated by their heathen masters ; even a Roman matron is represented by Juvenal as exclaiming , " O madman ! is a slave ...
... numerous and painful proofs of the cruelty and contempt with which this unhappy class of our fellow creatures were treated by their heathen masters ; even a Roman matron is represented by Juvenal as exclaiming , " O madman ! is a slave ...
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... numerous superstitious rites , such as auspices and sacrifices to Juno , which invariably accompanied pagan nuptials . This would undoubtedly be the first and most ex- plicit stipulation required by the Christian parent , for it was a ...
... numerous superstitious rites , such as auspices and sacrifices to Juno , which invariably accompanied pagan nuptials . This would undoubtedly be the first and most ex- plicit stipulation required by the Christian parent , for it was a ...
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Page 158 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 132 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible ; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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Page 218 - Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
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Page 49 - God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light...
Page 185 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
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Page 218 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.