The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... thus , my dear S. A. , the character is too generally formed by the plastic influence of things seen and temporal , and formed exclusively for an earthly existence , while things unseen and eternal are left out of view , 6 DEDICATION .
... thus , my dear S. A. , the character is too generally formed by the plastic influence of things seen and temporal , and formed exclusively for an earthly existence , while things unseen and eternal are left out of view , 6 DEDICATION .
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... eternal are left out of view , and God is not in all their thoughts . Hence , Jehovah , in great mercy , sometimes darkens the whole scene by affliction , that in the bitterness of disappointment they may turn from the vain shadows of ...
... eternal are left out of view , and God is not in all their thoughts . Hence , Jehovah , in great mercy , sometimes darkens the whole scene by affliction , that in the bitterness of disappointment they may turn from the vain shadows of ...
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... eternal weight of glory . " To that glory CLEMENTINE CUVIER has departed ; and do think what heaven must be , where there are millions similar to her . What would earth be if its inhabitants were all as holy , as humane , as intelligent ...
... eternal weight of glory . " To that glory CLEMENTINE CUVIER has departed ; and do think what heaven must be , where there are millions similar to her . What would earth be if its inhabitants were all as holy , as humane , as intelligent ...
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... death , and her heart was prepared for hea- ven . Writing , about the period of her seizure , to an absent friend , she said- " What sweetness there is in the thought of that eternal life — of that state of rest 42 MEMOIR OF.
... death , and her heart was prepared for hea- ven . Writing , about the period of her seizure , to an absent friend , she said- " What sweetness there is in the thought of that eternal life — of that state of rest 42 MEMOIR OF.
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... eternal life — of that state of rest and love ! Then we shall comprehend those delightful words of our Saviour , ' I go to prepare a place for you , that where I am ye may be also . " [ When her complaint was fully confirm- ed and those ...
... eternal life — of that state of rest and love ! Then we shall comprehend those delightful words of our Saviour , ' I go to prepare a place for you , that where I am ye may be also . " [ When her complaint was fully confirm- ed and those ...
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