The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... the fixedness of her intelligent countenance , the attitude of her fine form , and the suffu- sion of her beautiful eyes , that her whole heart was occupied and engaged with the truths and facts CLEMENTINE CUVIER . 31.
... the fixedness of her intelligent countenance , the attitude of her fine form , and the suffu- sion of her beautiful eyes , that her whole heart was occupied and engaged with the truths and facts CLEMENTINE CUVIER . 31.
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... truths and facts to which she listened with breathless eagerness . Clementine was a member of a committee of twelve ladies , who superintended the Female School of the Lutheran Church ; and she not only attended with regularity the ...
... truths and facts to which she listened with breathless eagerness . Clementine was a member of a committee of twelve ladies , who superintended the Female School of the Lutheran Church ; and she not only attended with regularity the ...
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... application of mind , both her own religious state , and the doc- trines that were presented to her faith . Buck's Christian Experience , Scott's Force of Truth , Gregory's Evidences , Appia's Christian Life , 34 MEMOIR OF.
... application of mind , both her own religious state , and the doc- trines that were presented to her faith . Buck's Christian Experience , Scott's Force of Truth , Gregory's Evidences , Appia's Christian Life , 34 MEMOIR OF.
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... Truth , Gregory's Evidences , Appia's Christian Life , and especially Chalmers ' publications , were read with delight ; and that they met both her taste and her wants was evident from the numerous extracts that she made of those ...
... Truth , Gregory's Evidences , Appia's Christian Life , and especially Chalmers ' publications , were read with delight ; and that they met both her taste and her wants was evident from the numerous extracts that she made of those ...
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... truth . When I compare the calm and the peace which the smallest and most imperceptible grain of faith gives to the soul , with all that the world alone can give of joy , or happiness , or glory , I feel that the least in the kingdom of ...
... truth . When I compare the calm and the peace which the smallest and most imperceptible grain of faith gives to the soul , with all that the world alone can give of joy , or happiness , or glory , I feel that the least in the kingdom of ...
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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.