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What happy endings teach us in childhood
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How to be poor and happy
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Living with less for spiritual gain
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This is a MOOD
Adults might sometimes dismiss teenagers’ ‘moodiness’, but adolescence is a time of complex shifts in brain and body, which are intricately bound up with fluctuating feelings.
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The christian instructor, and monitor: or, a guide to parents and children, to masters and servants, in religion and the way to salvation. Containing A Serious Address to Parents and Masters. The great Things to be known, believed and practised in order to Eternal Happiness. Motives to improve Time. A Family Catechism. The Christian's daily Walk.
Date: M,DCC,XL,IV. [1744]- Books
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The christian instructor, and monitor: or, a guide: to parents and children, to masters and servants, in religion and the way of salvation. Containing A Serious Address to Parents and Masters. The great Things to be known, believed and practised in order to Eternal Happiness. Motives to improve Time. A Family Catechism. The Christian's Daily Walk, &c.
Date: MDCCXLII. [1742]- Books
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A treatise on marriage. Being serious thoughts on the original design of that sacred institution, and the absolute Importance of its Solemnization between real Christians, for promoting mutual Happiness. To which are added scriptures on the education of children; containing Instructive Rules, deduced from Scripture and Experience, calculated to form their tender Minds, and train them up in the Paths of Duty. By W. Giles.
Giles, W. (William).Date: 1771- Books
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A present for an apprentice: or, a sure guide to gain both esteem and an estate; with rules for his conduct to his master, and in the world. Under the following Heads: Lying, Dishonesty, Fidelity, Temperance, Excess of all kinds, Government of the tongue, Other people's quarrels, Quarrels of one's own, Affability, Frugality, Industry, Value of time, Company, Friendship, Bonds and securities, Recrealions, Gaming, Company of women, Horse-Keeping, Proper persons to deal with, Suspicion, Resentment, Complacency, Tempers and faces of men, Irresolution and indolence, Caution in setting up, Great rents, Fine shops, Servants, Choice of a wife, Happiness after marriage, Domestick quarrels, House keeping, Education of children, Politicks, Religion. By a late Lord Mayor of London.
Barnard, John, Sir, 1685-1764.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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A candid historical account of the Hospital for the reception of exposed and deserted young children; representing the present plan of it as productive of many evils, and not adapted to the Genius and Happiness of this Nation. Shewing, on the other hand, the great importance of the establishment, if put under proper regulations, as the most effectual Means of preserving the Lives of a great Number of such Infants as have perished within the Bills of Mortality. With a proposal for carrying a new design into execution. To which is added, a letter from a country gentleman to a Governor of the Hospital: Containing Many Observations relating to Foundlings born, educated, or employed, in the Country; collected from real Facts: With his Opinion concerning the Amendments necessary.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LIX. [1759]