The Genius and Design of the Domestic Constitution, with Its Untransferable Obligations and Peculiar Advantages |
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... feel no disappointment , though he should hear both philosophy and ethics say , it is not in us — or human sagacity , it is not in me ; for , after all , perhaps he may find it within the narrow compass of a single human dwelling ...
... feel no disappointment , though he should hear both philosophy and ethics say , it is not in us — or human sagacity , it is not in me ; for , after all , perhaps he may find it within the narrow compass of a single human dwelling ...
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... feeling increasing tenderness for it . This beautiful and affecting arrangement of our Creator , the civil and sacred character , united at once in the very constitution of a family , and in the person of its head , gives rise to some ...
... feeling increasing tenderness for it . This beautiful and affecting arrangement of our Creator , the civil and sacred character , united at once in the very constitution of a family , and in the person of its head , gives rise to some ...
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... feeling her care , and the greatest as not exempted from her power , " must direct us here . This law is generally divided into two tables ; and these have been summed up , by the lawgiver him- 22 DOMESTIC CONNEXIONS .
... feeling her care , and the greatest as not exempted from her power , " must direct us here . This law is generally divided into two tables ; and these have been summed up , by the lawgiver him- 22 DOMESTIC CONNEXIONS .
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... the reader have consulted the able and in- teresting chronology of Hales , and feel partial to it ; then , extended though the period seem , he will find , that still there was from Adam even to Noah only DOMESTIC CONNEXIONS . 29.
... the reader have consulted the able and in- teresting chronology of Hales , and feel partial to it ; then , extended though the period seem , he will find , that still there was from Adam even to Noah only DOMESTIC CONNEXIONS . 29.
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... feeling of this passage is manifest . Here we see a father who thought not for himself alone ; who , when he could go no further than a peradventure , waited not , like Eli , till God should send a message to threaten him for the sins ...
... feeling of this passage is manifest . Here we see a father who thought not for himself alone ; who , when he could go no further than a peradventure , waited not , like Eli , till God should send a message to threaten him for the sins ...
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