Joseph Livesey: a life-story and its lessons, Σελίδα 101

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"Home Words" Pub. Office, 1882 - 61 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 18 - She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed ; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Σελίδα 7 - Self-reliance and self-denial will teach a man to drink out of his own cistern, and eat his own sweet bread, and to learn and labor truly to get his living, and carefully to expend the good things committed to his trust.
Σελίδα 11 - ... orphan relative with them. They took a house at a rental of £5 per annum, and here the looms were set up. In a short time the old grandmother died, and, as their means would not allow them to keep a housekeeper or other servant, young Joe had to discharge the domestic duties. He says : " From necessity I became pretty proficient in all kinds of labour connected with domestic life ; and I have never regretted this : for in speaking to the poor during my visitations I have found my early experience...

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