Word: wife
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...abstinence because we see life in many forms, and are forced by our experience into this position. I never took a pledge but once. I had been urging a poor drunken fellow not to drink again for a year, showing him the misery which his habits brought to his wife and children. He answered, "It is all very well for you to talk. Mr. Hale, who can take your glass of wine whenever you like. It is easy for you to tell a poor devil like me that I must not drink a glass of rum when I feel...
...paintings of Nicholas Sever and Sarah Warren Sever, his wife, have been placed in the hallway of Sever...
...death of Mr. Hart, late janitor of the Weld Boat House, has left a family, consisting of a wife and four children, the eldest only six years, destitute...
...because the very principle is true. Christ said, "If you would rightly understand spiritual crises be able to understand common things." Parables were addressed to the will and not to the understanding. An example of Christ's parables is as follows: David, who was all powerful, had seized the wife of one of his officers just to show that he had power. The Lord sent Nathan to David to speak as follows: There were two men, one rich and the other poor. The rich man owned large flocks while the poor man had only one small ewe lamb...
...Roman father was the sole head of the family and the wife and children were under his charge. The sons and daughters never attained an age at which they were free from the power of the father. When the sons married their wives and children also came into the power of the father and so on, the descendants always being under the power of the oldest male of the family, who controlled all the affairs and who owned all the property and slaves and had the power of life and death over the children. This, as may be seen...