The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... lived at the Jardin des Plantes for nearly forty years , surrounded by the objects which engrossed so great a portion of his thoughts , and there received every Saturday the men of science of Paris , and all others who visited that ...
... lived at the Jardin des Plantes for nearly forty years , surrounded by the objects which engrossed so great a portion of his thoughts , and there received every Saturday the men of science of Paris , and all others who visited that ...
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... lived and triumphed in her breast . [ The last hours ( September 28 ) which this heavenly - minded young woman spent on earth , were even more remarkable than any of her preceding days . The night had been passed in delirium ; it still ...
... lived and triumphed in her breast . [ The last hours ( September 28 ) which this heavenly - minded young woman spent on earth , were even more remarkable than any of her preceding days . The night had been passed in delirium ; it still ...
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... lived amidst the applause of all the rarest mind on earth at the time . Yet she found the world a broken cistern , and turned at last to religion as the only foun- tain that could satisfy the cravings after happiness which are felt ...
... lived amidst the applause of all the rarest mind on earth at the time . Yet she found the world a broken cistern , and turned at last to religion as the only foun- tain that could satisfy the cravings after happiness which are felt ...
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... lived not to diffuse the knowledge she had acquired . The care of her parents , the skill of her teach- ers , and her own assiduity , to prepare her for her station , were all bestowed on the culture of a flower , that was only for a ...
... lived not to diffuse the knowledge she had acquired . The care of her parents , the skill of her teach- ers , and her own assiduity , to prepare her for her station , were all bestowed on the culture of a flower , that was only for a ...
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... lived in vain . saw every thing that was desirable in the world before her , but was permitted to touch nothing . The lovely vision of a happy life on earth illumined her path , but vanished as she gazed upon it : and but for her ...
... lived in vain . saw every thing that was desirable in the world before her , but was permitted to touch nothing . The lovely vision of a happy life on earth illumined her path , but vanished as she gazed upon it : and but for her ...
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