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... Edla is twenty ; Adelaide seventeen . They require now more than ever , at their entrance into the world , a guiding friend . My two little darlings , on the other hand , Nina and Mina , re- quire to be taught everything from the ABC ...
... Edla is twenty ; Adelaide seventeen . They require now more than ever , at their entrance into the world , a guiding friend . My two little darlings , on the other hand , Nina and Mina , re- quire to be taught everything from the ABC ...
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... Edla's soul ! ” In the mean time I paid attention to the Pres- ident , who was confined with his two eldest daughters . Adelaide related to her father the events of the day - the dinner company and the dishes . Edla added a remark or ...
... Edla's soul ! ” In the mean time I paid attention to the Pres- ident , who was confined with his two eldest daughters . Adelaide related to her father the events of the day - the dinner company and the dishes . Edla added a remark or ...
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... Edla returned as silent and sullen as she had gone out . I had not , during the whole evening , seen one gay or friendly expression on her countenance . Next day , after an instruction of three hours ' length on the educational ...
... Edla returned as silent and sullen as she had gone out . I had not , during the whole evening , seen one gay or friendly expression on her countenance . Next day , after an instruction of three hours ' length on the educational ...
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... Edla sitting silent , and forgotten . She had not been enga- ged since the first dance , when the Baroness had obtained her a partner . I seated myself beside her , and endeavored to draw her into conversation ; but she either made me ...
... Edla sitting silent , and forgotten . She had not been enga- ged since the first dance , when the Baroness had obtained her a partner . I seated myself beside her , and endeavored to draw her into conversation ; but she either made me ...
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... Edla . " " Is not one enough ? " asked Otto with a de- plorable countenance . " No ; you must dance two . " " Ah thou most heavenly one ! I must obey all that you command . But what shall I get for it , Adelaide ! What shall I afterward ...
... Edla . " " Is not one enough ? " asked Otto with a de- plorable countenance . " No ; you must dance two . " " Ah thou most heavenly one ! I must obey all that you command . But what shall I get for it , Adelaide ! What shall I afterward ...
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Page 102 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Page 121 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
Page 15 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Page 35 - And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father.
Page 72 - For we know in part, and prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
Page 42 - ... in her frequent sighs. Like her husband, she is universally revered and beloved ; and all agree in this, that a more perfect union than exists between this couple cannot be imagined. Will you see in one little circumstance a miniature picture of the whole ? Every evening the old man himself roasts two apples — every evening, when they are done, he gives one of them to " his handsome old wife,
Page 42 - We shall not come out of the poetry of the house while she abides there. The Mother : An aged countenance and a bowed form, and you see an old woman ; but show her something beautiful, speak to her of something amiable, and her mien, her smile, beams from the eternal youth which dwells immortal in her sensitive spirit, and then will you involuntarily exclaim, "What beautiful age!
Page 38 - There sitteth a dove so white and fair, All on the lily- spray, And she listeneth how, to Jesus Christ, The little children pray. Lightly she spreads her friendly wings, And to heaven's gate hath sped, And unto the Father in heaven she bears The prayers which the children said.
Page 71 - nature sleeps," but this sleep resembles death ; like death, it is cold and ghastly, and would obscure the heart of man, did not another light descend at the same time, if it did not open to the heart a warmer bosom and animate it with its life. In Sweden they know this very well, and...
Page 35 - God, the eternally good, the highest love, will he forsake his fallen, his wretched child ? Will he do less than an earthly mother for her own ? O, no ; he will never turn away his face ; he will seek his child ; he will call him ; he will suffer ; he will give his heart's blood to win him again, to unite him again to himself. If God lives' in holier worlds as a dispenser of blessedness, he must live on the earth as a reconciler.