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... parents , our children , and our fellow men . It teaches us how to live and how to die . It points the finally impenitent to their awful doom - it arms the Christian in panoply complete- snatches from death its poisoned sting , from the ...
... parents , our children , and our fellow men . It teaches us how to live and how to die . It points the finally impenitent to their awful doom - it arms the Christian in panoply complete- snatches from death its poisoned sting , from the ...
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... parents to their children , en- hanced by the arduous and protracted care , necessary to sustain and bring them up . The mother , who is worthy of that endearing name , finds a new impetus to urge her on to the fulfilment of every duty ...
... parents to their children , en- hanced by the arduous and protracted care , necessary to sustain and bring them up . The mother , who is worthy of that endearing name , finds a new impetus to urge her on to the fulfilment of every duty ...
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... parents , but this feeling should be judiciously suppress- ed , at least , until the children arrive at their majority ; and by some discreet fathers , is first exhibited in their wills . The education of children should commence in the ...
... parents , but this feeling should be judiciously suppress- ed , at least , until the children arrive at their majority ; and by some discreet fathers , is first exhibited in their wills . The education of children should commence in the ...
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... parents , their teach- ers , their fellows , their country , and their God . Treat their inquisitiveness with patience and encouragement , and manifest a pleasure in their disposition to learn the reason of things . It is the germ of ...
... parents , their teach- ers , their fellows , their country , and their God . Treat their inquisitiveness with patience and encouragement , and manifest a pleasure in their disposition to learn the reason of things . It is the germ of ...
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... parents teach it by practising deception on their children , which cannot long be concealed . In other instances , parents make promises to their children , only to break them , and thus inculcate this ill habit . Some parents wink and ...
... parents teach it by practising deception on their children , which cannot long be concealed . In other instances , parents make promises to their children , only to break them , and thus inculcate this ill habit . Some parents wink and ...
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