The Bible and Spade; Or, Captain Brenton's Account of the Children's Friend Society, EtcJ. Nisbet & Company, 1837 - 106 pages |
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... effects of famine , from civil dissensions , insecurity of property , and consequent want of cultivation , that they hunted men for food . If such a state of society should ever occur again , it would not assuredly be from over ...
... effects of famine , from civil dissensions , insecurity of property , and consequent want of cultivation , that they hunted men for food . If such a state of society should ever occur again , it would not assuredly be from over ...
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... pear , it is nothing when compared to the moral effect produced on the minds and habits of the children , who coming , as it were , wild from the hot - beds of vice and lawless indulgence , CHILDREN'S FRIEND SOCIETY . 33.
... pear , it is nothing when compared to the moral effect produced on the minds and habits of the children , who coming , as it were , wild from the hot - beds of vice and lawless indulgence , CHILDREN'S FRIEND SOCIETY . 33.
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... effect , and in the form and manner hereafter stated , being an abstract from the ship books . ( See Appendix A. ) All service in the Navy to be rewarded after the rate of £ 1 per annum pension above six years ; nothing under , except ...
... effect , and in the form and manner hereafter stated , being an abstract from the ship books . ( See Appendix A. ) All service in the Navy to be rewarded after the rate of £ 1 per annum pension above six years ; nothing under , except ...
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... effects already pro- duced by the efforts of the Society . Extract from the South African Commercial Adver- tiser , of the 25th July , 1834 . We feel much pleasure at being able to inform our fellow colonists that the scheme for ...
... effects already pro- duced by the efforts of the Society . Extract from the South African Commercial Adver- tiser , of the 25th July , 1834 . We feel much pleasure at being able to inform our fellow colonists that the scheme for ...
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... effects have re- sulted . Youths who were found to be utterly immoveable by severity of demeanour and corporal punishment , have in many instances . been shaken and completely subdued by kindness and sympathy . When the first divisions ...
... effects have re- sulted . Youths who were found to be utterly immoveable by severity of demeanour and corporal punishment , have in many instances . been shaken and completely subdued by kindness and sympathy . When the first divisions ...
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The Bible and Spade: Or Captain Brenton's Account of the Children's Friend ... Edward Pelham Brenton No preview available - 2009 |
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allowed apprentices Asylum attention boys Brenton brother Cape Town Captain CHAP Cherry Hill Farm chil child Children's Friend Society Chiswick clothes colonies commissioners Committee of Management dear DUCHESS OF KENT duty Earl of Euston Ewan Christian expense FANNY FORSHER father felons female Forsher Fredericton gentlemen George Wilson give Greenwich Hospital guardians Hackney Wick hand happy honour hope indenture instruction Iron Park Hall James Juvenile Emigrants kind King's knew labour Lady Leicestershire letter Lord magistrate Mary-le-bone ment mind moral mother navy never officer orphan parents parish person prisons punishment received ROYAL NAVY ruin Samuel Bailey sent servants ship Simpson Sir Frederick Williamson soon squire thee thing Thornton thou thought tion Tom Wilson took unhappy unto vice week William Wilson workhouse young youth
Popular passages
Page 120 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 124 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. " Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
Page 117 - These six things doth the Lord hate: Yea, seven are an abomination unto him : A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Page 123 - The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Page 125 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 124 - For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low...
Page 118 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 122 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Page 118 - The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
Page 125 - Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness : for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall see God. 9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.