The Child at Home: The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated - Couverture souple

Abbott, John S.

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ISBN 10 : 1444451367 ISBN 13 : 9781444451368

Editeur : ValdeBooks, 2024

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HOME TITLES GENRES AUTHORS LANGUAGES NEW TITLES RECOMMENDED POPULAR The Child at Home The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated Cover image for Download download author: John S.C. Abbott published: 1833 language: English wordcount: 43,880 / 125 pg flesch-kincaid reading ease: 71.3 loc category: LB downloads: 3,639 added to site: 2006.06.08 mnybks.net#: 13850 origin: gutenberg.org genre: Instructional Read Online in Browser Here This book is intended for the children of those families to which The Mother at Home has gone. It is prepared with the hope that it mayexert an influence upon the minds of the children, in exciting gratitude for their parents' love, and in forming characters whichshall ensure future usefulness and happiness. Show Excerpt became inured to its hardships. Constant intercourse with the most profligate and abandoned, gave strength and inveteracy to his sinful habits; and before the voyage had terminated, he was reckless of danger, and as hardened and unfeeling as the most depraved on board the ship. This boy commenced with disobedience in little things, and grew worse and worse, till he forsook his father and his mother, and was prepared for the abandonment of every virtue, and the commission of any crime. But the eye of God was upon him, following him wherever he went, and marking all his iniquities. An hour of retribution was approaching. It is not necessary for me to trace out to you his continued steps of progress in sin. When on shore, he passed his time in haunts of dissipation. And several years rolled on in this way, he growing more hardened, and his aged parents, in their loneliness, weeping over the ruin of their guilty and wandering son. One day an armed vessel sailed into one of the principal ports of the United

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• Éditeur: ValdeBooks
• Date d'édition: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1444451367
• ISBN 13: 9781444451368
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 86