The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... 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 heaven , is a hundred times more blessed than the great- est and most elevated of the men of the world ...
... 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 heaven , is a hundred times more blessed than the great- est and most elevated of the men of the world ...
Page 42
... gives me an habitual peace and tranquillity which nothing else could inspire . " It was in the midst of the preparations for her nuptials , that she was attacked by the disease which soon brought her to the grave . So fatal a result was ...
... gives me an habitual peace and tranquillity which nothing else could inspire . " It was in the midst of the preparations for her nuptials , that she was attacked by the disease which soon brought her to the grave . So fatal a result was ...
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... give it me now ? " " No , my dear , " replied Clementine , " not now , I shall use it myself , and I wish to write something in it before I give it to you . " 66 After the first agitation occasioned by her death , her friend remembered ...
... give it me now ? " " No , my dear , " replied Clementine , " not now , I shall use it myself , and I wish to write something in it before I give it to you . " 66 After the first agitation occasioned by her death , her friend remembered ...
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... " With such a confes- sion did the man go off the stage of exist- ence , who of all the human race was the best qualified to give an opinion upon such a sub- 55 ject . If the possession of royalty , unbound- 54 VANITY OF REFLECTIONS. ...
... " With such a confes- sion did the man go off the stage of exist- ence , who of all the human race was the best qualified to give an opinion upon such a sub- 55 ject . If the possession of royalty , unbound- 54 VANITY OF REFLECTIONS. ...
Page 62
... give up the worship of the temple gods , but make no formal abjuration of them ! " How near akin to the experience of Solo- mon , the wisest and richest of men , as de- scribed in the book of Ecclesiastes , was that of the poor savage ...
... give up the worship of the temple gods , but make no formal abjuration of them ! " How near akin to the experience of Solo- mon , the wisest and richest of men , as de- scribed in the book of Ecclesiastes , was that of the poor savage ...
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