Mothers of the Wise and Good

Jabez Burns

Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850 - Mothers - 288 pages

Contents

• Mother of Alfred the Great: 21
• Winifride Mother of Bishop Hall: 27
• Rev O Heywood and his Mother 83: 35
• Dr Samuel Johnson and his Mother: 46
• Mrs Savage and her Children: 54
• Dr Doddridge and his Mother: 65
• Mrs H Woodd and her Son: 72
• Sir W Jones and his Mother: 76
• Rev E D Jackson and his Mother: 82
• Rev John Newton and his Mother: 88
• Mrs Chase and her Children: 95
• Oberlin and his Mother: 103
• Mrs Berry and her Children: 109
• Rev J Belfrage and his Mother: 115
• Rev Richard Cecil and his Mother: 121
• Dr Buchanan and his Mother 184: 134
• Rev Dr Dwight and his Mother: 141
• Baron Cuvier and his Mother: 147
• Mother of Lucretia and Margaret Davidson: 162
• Lines to my Mother: 168
• Miss Jane Taylor and her Mother: 175
• Rev Theophilus Lessey and his Mother: 182
• STRIKING INCIDENTS AND BRIEF ACCOUNTS: 189
• Rev Dr Annesley and Mrs Hutchinson: 195
• A Jackson and his Mother: 201
• The Power of a Mother: 208
• Rev Dr Waugh and his Mother: 214
• The Mother in the Closet: 222
• The Blind Girl to her Mother: 225
• On the Qualifications Essential c: 234
• The Mothers Charge: 250
• A Mothers Privilege: 257
• Power of Maternal Piety: 263
• Method of imparting Scriptural Knowledge: 269
• Infant Education: 276
• Early Religious Impressions c: 283

Popular passages

Page 85 - This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.‎

Page 235 - He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall; but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.‎

Page 282 - God, and ye are not your own? Ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.‎

Page 250 - Well done, good and faithful servants, enter ye into the joy of your Lord.‎

Page 119 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.‎

Page 231 - My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden; for, behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.‎

Page 48 - Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one...‎

Page 271 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.‎

Page 230 - ... the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Mothers of the Wise and Good
• Author: Jabez Burns
• Edition: 3
• Publisher: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850
• Original from: the New York Public Library
• Digitized: Feb 10, 2007
• Length: 288 pages