The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... child ! But that is just the way ; when one has educated one's daughters , and taught them something of good manners , just when one has begun to have real pleasure in them , that one must lose them - must let them go to China if the ...
... child ! But that is just the way ; when one has educated one's daughters , and taught them something of good manners , just when one has begun to have real pleasure in them , that one must lose them - must let them go to China if the ...
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... children , through my duties , through the desires and the wants which I have overcome at his side - yes , Sara , above all things , through him , his affection , his excellence , am I im- proved , and feel myself happier every day ...
... children , through my duties , through the desires and the wants which I have overcome at his side - yes , Sara , above all things , through him , his affection , his excellence , am I im- proved , and feel myself happier every day ...
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... child , do not follow him . A more mature , a more logical power of mind , will teach you how little he knows of the ocean of life , of its breakers and its depths , -how little he understands the true compass . " 99 " Ah ! " said Sara ...
... child , do not follow him . A more mature , a more logical power of mind , will teach you how little he knows of the ocean of life , of its breakers and its depths , -how little he understands the true compass . " 99 " Ah ! " said Sara ...
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... child ! I have not taken you under my roof in order to let you become the victim of ruin and misfortune ! Pause , Sara , and reflect , I pray you , I conjure you ! make not yourself wretched ! When I took you from the death - bed of ...
... child ! I have not taken you under my roof in order to let you become the victim of ruin and misfortune ! Pause , Sara , and reflect , I pray you , I conjure you ! make not yourself wretched ! When I took you from the death - bed of ...
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... children live gaily at home , and are preparing themselves for life . Indeed , if they only once open their eyes and ears , they will find subjects enough on which to use them ; and will be astonished at all that life will present them ...
... children live gaily at home , and are preparing themselves for life . Indeed , if they only once open their eyes and ears , they will find subjects enough on which to use them ; and will be astonished at all that life will present them ...
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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.