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If she were acting like she had some home-training the long campaign would be a benifit for who ever wins.
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There is an immense collection of fiction written by Jews for Jews in the early twentieth century, in which the relaxation of this immemorial close home-training and the clash of the old and modernizing generations is described.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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She became indignant at the indecent attitudes she was called upon to assume, but noticing a score of young women, many of them from the best homes in the town, all yielding to the vulgar embrace, she cast aside that spirit of modesty which had been the development of years of home-training, and setting her face against nature's protective warnings, gave herself, as did the others, to this prolonged embrace set to music.
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The neglect of home-training seems to arise out of an existing-prejudice against it.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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Complete and entire reform in our system of home-training of our boys and girls will go far to relieve youthful Negroes of just censure for ill-breeding.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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For the home-training includes not only manners and mind, but character.
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Religion is its first want, -- the one thing needful, the chief concern; and should, therefore, be the first object of attention in home-training.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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It is intended to excite interest in the religious elements of family life, and to show that the development of individual character and happiness in the church and state, in time and in eternity, starts with, and depends upon, home-training and nurture.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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Our purpose here is simply to state this as a part of home-training.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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It is possible that their home-training negatives that.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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