The Flower Faded: A Short Memoir of Clementine Cuvier, Daughter of Baron Cuvier, with Reflections, by John Angell James |
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... , That I might learn his statutes well . Youth is a time eminently favourable to the cultivation and enjoyment of religion ; the body is then vigorous , the mind lively , the time at command , the spirit unoppress- ed with DEDICATION . 5.
... , That I might learn his statutes well . Youth is a time eminently favourable to the cultivation and enjoyment of religion ; the body is then vigorous , the mind lively , the time at command , the spirit unoppress- ed with DEDICATION . 5.
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... spirit unoppress- ed with the rude cares of life , and 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 ...
... spirit unoppress- ed with the rude cares of life , and 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 ...
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... spirit ; and amid the universal admiration which such a character commanded , she courted and she earned , the blessings of the poor , the ignorant , and the afflicted . About the close of 1826 , the first symptoms of a fatal disease ...
... spirit ; and amid the universal admiration which such a character commanded , she courted and she earned , the blessings of the poor , the ignorant , and the afflicted . About the close of 1826 , the first symptoms of a fatal disease ...
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... spirit . " 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 ...
... spirit . " 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 ...
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... this invitation , till she opened her heart to the enjoyment of reli- gion ; and then she found rest and peace for her spirit , and hungered and thirsted no more . But her short history proves the vanity of the world 66 VANITY OF.
... this invitation , till she opened her heart to the enjoyment of reli- gion ; and then she found rest and peace for her spirit , and hungered and thirsted no more . But her short history proves the vanity of the world 66 VANITY OF.
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