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... once and for ever renounce all hope of staying the progress of juvenile depravity , under the well founded suspicion , that no human power is able to cope with the rapidly increasing cause of that evil - the manufactures of the land ...
... once and for ever renounce all hope of staying the progress of juvenile depravity , under the well founded suspicion , that no human power is able to cope with the rapidly increasing cause of that evil - the manufactures of the land ...
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... once get used there . Once get used there indeed , and you are life ruined . I was an only child , and haven't a friend in the world . I have heard several girls say how they would like to get out of the life , and out of the place ...
... once get used there . Once get used there indeed , and you are life ruined . I was an only child , and haven't a friend in the world . I have heard several girls say how they would like to get out of the life , and out of the place ...
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... Once inured to the hard- ships of a street life , the coster girl acquires so strong a relish for it , that nothing short of absolute compulsion will cause her to adopt another . It is by the aid of these little precocious creatures ...
... Once inured to the hard- ships of a street life , the coster girl acquires so strong a relish for it , that nothing short of absolute compulsion will cause her to adopt another . It is by the aid of these little precocious creatures ...
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... once established made the more agonizing by the application of human agency . So soon as the little urchin can lisp the cry " puir wean , " or its tiny limbs carry its stinted body , it is thrown out of its dirty den into the streets ...
... once established made the more agonizing by the application of human agency . So soon as the little urchin can lisp the cry " puir wean , " or its tiny limbs carry its stinted body , it is thrown out of its dirty den into the streets ...
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... once more to their moral and physical con- Wretched- dition , we shall beg the reader to accompany us , in the ensuing chapters , to the more pleasing task of considering the duty of society to rescue these unhappy portions of the ...
... once more to their moral and physical con- Wretched- dition , we shall beg the reader to accompany us , in the ensuing chapters , to the more pleasing task of considering the duty of society to rescue these unhappy portions of the ...
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Page 75 - And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Page 277 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 76 - And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt : I am the Lord your God.
Page 69 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle...
Page 81 - ... that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 292 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Page 50 - Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you ; and I will not be burdensome to you : for I seek not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Page 73 - For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Page 256 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 299 - Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment; and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: 30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.