 | Benjamin Peirce - 1833 - 518 pages
...there were only two things that she desired God to give him, grace and learning. " Child," said she, "if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee." Among her instructions to him, as he grew up, she particularly inculcated the lesson of... | |
 | American education society - 1837 - 450 pages
...there were only two things that she desired God to give him, grace and learning. "Child," said she, "if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all thy mother ever asked for thee." Among her instructions to him, as he grew up, she particularly inculcated... | |
 | New England - 1847 - 300 pages
...requisite learning and ability to accomplish something for God in the world. "My child," said she, " if God make thee a good Christian, and a good scholar, thou wilt have all that thy mother ever asked for thee." She earnestly VOL. v. 4 inculcated upon him the... | |
 | Enoch Pond - Governors - 1847 - 304 pages
...requisite learning and ability to accomplish something for God in the world. " My child," said she, " if God make thee a good Christian, and a good scholar, thou wilt have all that thy mother ever asked for thee." She earnestly VOL. v. 4 inculcated upon him the... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Domestic education - 1850 - 356 pages
...character the first thing in our parental supplications. " Child," was her devoted address to him, " if God make thee a Good Christian and a Good Scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee." The Christian character, gentleness, obedience, tractableness toward God and man at home,... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - New England - 1862 - 742 pages
...love God, and learning, that might accomplish him to do service for God." Child, she said to him, " if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all, that even thy mother asked for thee." Her frequent maxim to him was, " Seest thou a man diligent in business,... | |
 | John Langdon Sibley, Clifford Kenyon Shipton - Boston (Mass.) - 1873 - 658 pages
...there were only two things that she desired God to give him, Grace and Learning. "Child" said she, "// GOD make thee a Good Christian and a Good Scholar, thou hast all that ever thy tilother Asked for thee. . . . She mightily Inculcated the Lesson of Diligence upon him, and... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1890 - 664 pages
...order of nobility among them. " Child," said a high-spirited New England matron to her little boy, " if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee." The praise of studiousness was a eulogium warm enough even for the rhetoric of an epitaph.... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 332 pages
...order of nobility among them. " Child," said a high-spirited New England matron to her little boy, " if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee." The praise of studiousness was a eulogium warm enough even for the rhetoric of an epitaph.... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1878 - 670 pages
...order of nobility among them. " Child," said a high-spirited New England matron to her little boy, " if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee." The praise of studiousness was a eulogium warm enough even for the rhetoric of an epitaph.... | |
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The learned class were indeed an order of nobility among them. " Child," said a high-spirited New England matron to her little boy, " if God make thee a good Christian and a good scholar, thou hast all that thy mother ever asked for thee. 
