The Female Disciple of the First Three Centuries of the Christian Era; Her Trials and Her Mission |
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... society was abused by the stronger sex , as a means to enslave and tyrannise over the weaker . The practice of polygamy and the facility of divorce became at once the bane of domestic happiness manners . and the cause of an universal ...
... society was abused by the stronger sex , as a means to enslave and tyrannise over the weaker . The practice of polygamy and the facility of divorce became at once the bane of domestic happiness manners . and the cause of an universal ...
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... society and not the individual , civil aggrandisement and not moral principle , mind and intellect , but not the heart and the affections , which stood foremost and alone in the social system of the legislator and philosopher . Indeed ...
... society and not the individual , civil aggrandisement and not moral principle , mind and intellect , but not the heart and the affections , which stood foremost and alone in the social system of the legislator and philosopher . Indeed ...
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... society of men ; still the Roman husbands were very incommu- nicative ; and it seems to have been an under- stood , if not a written law , that women should avoid all inquisitiveness , and speak only in the presence of their husbands ...
... society of men ; still the Roman husbands were very incommu- nicative ; and it seems to have been an under- stood , if not a written law , that women should avoid all inquisitiveness , and speak only in the presence of their husbands ...
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... society . Metella , the wife of Sylla , was divorced on an equally tri- vial plea . It seems that she was so unfor- tunate as to be seized with a dangerous ill- ness in the midst of the series of magnificent fêtes in honour of Hercules ...
... society . Metella , the wife of Sylla , was divorced on an equally tri- vial plea . It seems that she was so unfor- tunate as to be seized with a dangerous ill- ness in the midst of the series of magnificent fêtes in honour of Hercules ...
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... society , and all the bonds of domestic life , were on the eve of disruption . Yet had the outward machinery of paganism never been maintained with more costly splen- dour ; holocausts flamed upon the altars , and human victims were ...
... society , and all the bonds of domestic life , were on the eve of disruption . Yet had the outward machinery of paganism never been maintained with more costly splen- dour ; holocausts flamed upon the altars , and human victims were ...
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Page 158 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 132 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible ; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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Page 218 - Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
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Page 49 - God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light...
Page 185 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
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Page 218 - The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things ; that they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.