The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... blessing might not your life and your talents be ! Sara ! I have loved you and love you still like my own daughter will you not listen to me as to a father ? Answer me - have you had to give up any thing in this house , which , with any ...
... blessing might not your life and your talents be ! Sara ! I have loved you and love you still like my own daughter will you not listen to me as to a father ? Answer me - have you had to give up any thing in this house , which , with any ...
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... blessing both for home and for the general good ; thought on the children , how healthy and good they are , and how ... bless you , for these words , Elise ! " said he . " But the children : the children ! Our decision will influence ...
... blessing both for home and for the general good ; thought on the children , how healthy and good they are , and how ... bless you , for these words , Elise ! " said he . " But the children : the children ! Our decision will influence ...
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... out together and enjoy all the freshness and quiet . of the woods . And would it not be a blessed thing to wander thus calmly through life , endeavouring to improve ourselves , and to make all those around us 50 FAMILY CARES.
... out together and enjoy all the freshness and quiet . of the woods . And would it not be a blessed thing to wander thus calmly through life , endeavouring to improve ourselves , and to make all those around us 50 FAMILY CARES.
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... blessing that would be sweet and precious , Leonore ! People extol all those who are able to die for love , for honour , for religion , for high and noble ends , and wherefore ? Because it is , indeed , a mercy from God to be able so to ...
... blessing that would be sweet and precious , Leonore ! People extol all those who are able to die for love , for honour , for religion , for high and noble ends , and wherefore ? Because it is , indeed , a mercy from God to be able so to ...
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... blessed drawing - room , and I was tanned with the wind , and as red as a peony . Such things as these are enough to make one a little desperate ; all these things are trifles , yet they are nevertheless annoying ; and then it is ...
... blessed drawing - room , and I was tanned with the wind , and as red as a peony . Such things as these are enough to make one a little desperate ; all these things are trifles , yet they are nevertheless annoying ; and then it is ...
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Page 141 - 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 138 - ... the vessel of our life : — carry it from the islands of joy it is true, but carry it also away from the rocky shores of grief. Hours came for me in which no consolation would appease my heart, in. which I in vain combated with myself, and said — ' Now I will read, and then pray, and then sleep ! ' But yet anguish would not leave me, but followed me still, when I read; prevented me from prayer, and chased away sleep; yes, many such hours have been...
Page 140 - And I, Cecilia, should I shut my heart against so many occasions for joy and gratitude, and sit with my sorrow in darkness "Î О no! I will gladden the human circle in which I live ; I will open my heart to the gospel of life and of nature ; I will seize hold on the moments, and the good which they bring. No friendly glance, no spring-breeze, shall pass over me unenjoyed or unacknowledged ; out of every flower will I suck a drop of honey, and out of every passing hour a drop of eternal life." And...
Page 50 - Why he, whose whole life was a crucifixion, should not love to look on that divine image of blameless suffering, I cannot see; on the contrary, it seems to me the most natural thing in the world that he should. But there are those who want to make private property of everything, and can't make up their minds that people who don't think as they do should claim any interest in that infinite compassion expressed in the central figure of the Christendom which includes us all.