The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... heart not bowed or broken with the sorrows of this world . Halcyon season ! did the young know it . But , alas ! they do not consider this , and instead of remembering their Creator in the days of their youth , they put off the ...
... heart not bowed or broken with the sorrows of this world . Halcyon season ! did the young know it . But , alas ! they do not consider this , and instead of remembering their Creator in the days of their youth , they put off the ...
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... heart . His only daughter , CLEMENTINE CUVIER , now his only child , after surmounting the dangers of a sickly infancy , had been reinstated in the bloom of health , and had reached the winter of Her acquire- her twenty - second year ...
... heart . His only daughter , CLEMENTINE CUVIER , now his only child , after surmounting the dangers of a sickly infancy , had been reinstated in the bloom of health , and had reached the winter of Her acquire- her twenty - second year ...
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... heart an image of still greater ago- ny . Distracted with his loss , CUVIER sought and found in the most absorbing studies , some alleviation of his sorrows ; but though with this view he enforced up- on himself the most intense and ...
... heart an image of still greater ago- ny . Distracted with his loss , CUVIER sought and found in the most absorbing studies , some alleviation of his sorrows ; but though with this view he enforced up- on himself the most intense and ...
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... circum- stance revealed the habits of her mind , and the disposition of her heart , at that early age . She lost a book of prayers , which she was accustomed to use ; it was found by a friend , who assisted her father in the 30 MEMOIR OF.
... circum- stance revealed the habits of her mind , and the disposition of her heart , at that early age . She lost a book of prayers , which she was accustomed to use ; it was found by a friend , who assisted her father in the 30 MEMOIR OF.
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... , by 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.
... , by 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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