The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... father nor mother , brother nor sister , have followed my path ; no sunshine fell upon my childhood or my youth ; I have wandered solitarily through life , combating with difficulties . Once I bound myself to a friend , he deserted me ...
... father nor mother , brother nor sister , have followed my path ; no sunshine fell upon my childhood or my youth ; I have wandered solitarily through life , combating with difficulties . Once I bound myself to a friend , he deserted me ...
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... father , indeed , was actually desperate with all this courtship ; and the mother thought it quite absurd that her blooming Eva and Jeremias Munter should go together . No one voice spoke for the Assessor but the little Petrea's , and a ...
... father , indeed , was actually desperate with all this courtship ; and the mother thought it quite absurd that her blooming Eva and Jeremias Munter should go together . No one voice spoke for the Assessor but the little Petrea's , and a ...
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... father . " Ah , Sara , " said the mother , after a short silence , " have you well considered this ? Do you think that Schwartz is a man who can make a wife happy ? " “ He can make me happy , " returned Sara ; " happy according to my ...
... father . " Ah , Sara , " said the mother , after a short silence , " have you well considered this ? Do you think that Schwartz is a man who can make a wife happy ? " “ He can make me happy , " returned Sara ; " happy according to my ...
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... father ? And are those distinguished persons who present the highest pleasures to the world through their talents ; to whom the many look up with admiration and homage ; around whom the great , and the beautiful , and the agreeable ...
... father ? And are those distinguished persons who present the highest pleasures to the world through their talents ; to whom the many look up with admiration and homage ; around whom the great , and the beautiful , and the agreeable ...
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... full of remorse , to the virtue and to the true life which you have renounced . " Sara was silent , she was shaken by the words and by the countenance of her adopted father . " And how perfectly different it might be ! " 20 FAMILY CARES.
... full of remorse , to the virtue and to the true life which you have renounced . " Sara was silent , she was shaken by the words and by the countenance of her adopted father . " And how perfectly different it might be ! " 20 FAMILY CARES.
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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.