The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... lived at the Jardin des Plantes for nearly forty years , surrounded by the objects which engrossed so great a portion of his thoughts , and there received every Saturday the men of science of Paris , and all others who visited that ...
... lived at the Jardin des Plantes for nearly forty years , surrounded by the objects which engrossed so great a portion of his thoughts , and there received every Saturday the men of science of Paris , and all others who visited that ...
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... lived and triumphed in her breast . [ The last hours ( September 25 ) which this heavenly - minded young woman spent on earth , were even more remarkable than any of her preceding days . The night had been passed in delirium ; it still ...
... lived and triumphed in her breast . [ The last hours ( September 25 ) which this heavenly - minded young woman spent on earth , were even more remarkable than any of her preceding days . The night had been passed in delirium ; it still ...
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... lived amidst the applause of all the rarest mind on earth at the time . Yet she found the world a broken cistern , and turned at last to religion as the only foun- tain that could satisfy the cravings after happiness which are felt ...
... lived amidst the applause of all the rarest mind on earth at the time . Yet she found the world a broken cistern , and turned at last to religion as the only foun- tain that could satisfy the cravings after happiness which are felt ...
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... lived not to diffuse the knowledge she had acquired . The care of her parents , the skill of her teach- ers , and her own assiduity , to prepare her for her station , were all bestowed on the culture of a flower , that was only for a ...
... lived not to diffuse the knowledge she had acquired . The care of her parents , the skill of her teach- ers , and her own assiduity , to prepare her for her station , were all bestowed on the culture of a flower , that was only for a ...
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... lived in vain . She saw every thing that was desirable in the world before her , but was permitted to touch nothing . The lovely vision of a happy life on earth illumined her path , but vanished as she gazed upon it : and but for her ...
... lived in vain . She saw every thing that was desirable in the world before her , but was permitted to touch nothing . The lovely vision of a happy life on earth illumined her path , but vanished as she gazed upon it : and but for her ...
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Page 106 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 81 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Page 9 - ... our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory...
Page 111 - FATHER, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me where I am : that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
Page 66 - Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat ; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread ? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Page 84 - Christ, unto all and upon all them that believe : for there is no difference ; for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus : whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness . . . that he might be just, and the justifier of him that believeth in Jesus.
Page 83 - Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Page 85 - Except a man be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
Page 83 - For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Page 183 - Bodily exercise profiteth but little ;" but of the latter sort, he added, "but godliness is profitable to all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come :" and this indeed is our exactest measure.