 | Mrs. Hughs (Mary) - 1828 - 242 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that arc good ; and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Children - 1833 - 242 pages
...mixed with industry, is good for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...eye. Let my children be husbandmen and housewives ; like Abraham and the holy Ancients, who pleased God and obtained a good report. Such employment is... | |
 | Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1836 - 262 pages
...and gives him life, as well as learning." And in his parting instructions to his wife, he enjoins : " Let my children be husbandmen, and housewives; it is industrious, healthy, honest, and of good report. This leads to consider the works of God, and diverts the mind from being • William Penn also... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1841 - 390 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses' or ships, measuring! surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1841 - 496 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 766 pages
...and gives him life as well as learning." And in his parting instructions to his wife he enjoins, " Let my children be husbandmen and housewives : it is industrious, healthy, honest, and of good report. This leads to consider the works of God, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the... | |
 | 1853 - 730 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Bible - 1846 - 396 pages
...too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, Burveying, dialling, navigation ; but agriculture is especially...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
 | Joseph Barker - Pioneers - 1847 - 332 pages
...mixed with industry whichiagood for the body and mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with 16S the vain arts and inventions... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying,...leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of... | |
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I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialling, navigation ; but agriculture is especially in my eye : let my children be husbandmen and housewives ; it is industrious, healthy, honest and of good... 
