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Guidance

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Guidance
See also Counsel.
Analects, The
emphasize human relationships, the golden rule, and usefulness to the state and society. [Chin. Lit.: The Analects of Confucius in Benét, 33]
Anthony, Mr.
gave guidance to supplicants on radio show. [Am. Radio: “Ask Mr. Anthony” in Buxton, 99]
Baloo
bear who teaches Mowgli jungle law. [Br. Lit.: The Jungle Books]
Dear Abby
column of moral or psychological advice; syndicated since 1956. [Pop. Culture: Payton, 185]
Deborah
under her aegis, Barak routed the Canaanites. [O.T.: Judges 4:4–10]
Dix, Dorothea
(1870–1951) syndicated columnist who gave advice to the lovelorn. [Am. Pop. Culture: Misc.]
Dooley, Mr
. Irish saloonkeeper in Chicago who sagely and humorously dispenses folk philosophy. [Am. Humor: Hart, 240]
lamp
Word of God showing the way. [Christian Symbolism: O.T.: Psalms 119:105]
Landers, Ann
(1918—) syndicated columnist who gives advice on personal problems. [Pop. Culture: Misc.]
Mentor
Odysseus’s friend and advisor. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]
Ten Commandments
God’s precepts for man’s life. [O.T.: Exodus 20:3–17; Deuteronomy 5:7–21]

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Moreover, the rain (which falls at stated intervals) coming always from the North, is an additional assistance; and in the towns we have the guidance of the houses, which of course have their side-walls running for the most part North and South, so that the roofs may keep off the rain from the North.
Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
If before going to the d'Urbervilles' she had vigorously moved under the guidance of sundry gnomic texts and phrases known to her and to the world in general, no doubt she would never have been imposed on.
 
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