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... feeling with respect to the affair . She was sum- moned to their presence . The Judge handed to her Schwartz's letter , and awaited impatiently her remarks upon it . Her colour paled before the grave and searching glance which was ...
... feeling with respect to the affair . She was sum- moned to their presence . The Judge handed to her Schwartz's letter , and awaited impatiently her remarks upon it . Her colour paled before the grave and searching glance which was ...
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... feel strength in myself to break up a new path for myself . I will lead a fresh and an independent life ! I will live a bright artiste - life , free from the trammels and the Lilliputian considera- tions of domestic life . I will be ...
... feel strength in myself to break up a new path for myself . I will lead a fresh and an independent life ! I will live a bright artiste - life , free from the trammels and the Lilliputian considera- tions of domestic life . I will be ...
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... feel pain- fully any renunciation which I have made , there are others , and far more of them , in which I con- gratulate myself on all that I have won . I am become improved through the husband whom God has given to me ; through my ...
... feel pain- fully any renunciation which I have made , there are others , and far more of them , in which I con- gratulate myself on all that I have won . I am become improved through the husband whom God has given to me ; through my ...
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Or, Family Cares and Family Joys Fredrika Bremer. of excited feeling , left the room with her handker- chief to her eyes . " For shame , Sara , " said the Judge with severe gravity , and standing before her with a reproving glance ...
Or, Family Cares and Family Joys Fredrika Bremer. of excited feeling , left the room with her handker- chief to her eyes . " For shame , Sara , " said the Judge with severe gravity , and standing before her with a reproving glance ...
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... feel a power in myself which is not a common one— my heart throbs for a freer and more beautiful life ! Desire not that I should constrain my own nature ; desire not that I should compress my beautiful talents into a sphere which has no ...
... feel a power in myself which is not a common one— my heart throbs for a freer and more beautiful life ! Desire not that I should constrain my own nature ; desire not that I should compress my beautiful talents into a sphere which has no ...
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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.