The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... hope . Every thing has the freshness and charm of novelty . They roam onwards , pleased with the present , and still more at- tracted by the dim visions of the future ; and thus , my dear S. A. , the character is too generally formed by ...
... hope . Every thing has the freshness and charm of novelty . They roam onwards , pleased with the present , and still more at- tracted by the dim visions of the future ; and thus , my dear S. A. , the character is too generally formed by ...
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... hope ! and what thanks do we not owe to that God who has given us the experience of its power ! " Her benevolence , always active , now took a character more elevated and more in harmony with the charity of the Gospel . " When I now ...
... hope ! and what thanks do we not owe to that God who has given us the experience of its power ! " Her benevolence , always active , now took a character more elevated and more in harmony with the charity of the Gospel . " When I now ...
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... hope , the impression of religious truth , may I solicit your serious and devout attention to the lessons with which the nar- rative is fraught . First , -Does it not most impressively remind us of the VANITY OF THE WORLD , and that ...
... hope , the impression of religious truth , may I solicit your serious and devout attention to the lessons with which the nar- rative is fraught . First , -Does it not most impressively remind us of the VANITY OF THE WORLD , and that ...
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... ; he wished for length of days , and he is now an old man . But now he has nothing more to wish or hope for in life , for the day of death cannot be far off . He has done with feasting , and travelling , and hunting , and THE WORL D. 61.
... ; he wished for length of days , and he is now an old man . But now he has nothing more to wish or hope for in life , for the day of death cannot be far off . He has done with feasting , and travelling , and hunting , and THE WORL D. 61.
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... but have lost all . " What did he not hope for from his Clementine , the last , the most beautiful and promising of his children ? O what a wreck was made when she died ! What blissful anticipa- tions hung withering THE WORLD . 67.
... but have lost all . " What did he not hope for from his Clementine , the last , the most beautiful and promising of his children ? O what a wreck was made when she died ! What blissful anticipa- tions hung withering THE WORLD . 67.
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