The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... , and burned with impatience to repel his pretensions , and to remove him at the same time from his house . Elise agreed perfectly in the opinion of her husband , but was less confident than he regarding Sara's state of 10 FAMILY CARES.
... , and burned with impatience to repel his pretensions , and to remove him at the same time from his house . Elise agreed perfectly in the opinion of her husband , but was less confident than he regarding Sara's state of 10 FAMILY CARES.
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... husband whom God has given to me ; through my 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 ...
... husband whom God has given to me ; through my 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 ...
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... husband a power over you which he will not fail to abuse , —that I can promise you , from what I know of his character , and from what I now discover of yours . No woman can withdraw from a connexion of this kind unpunished , more ...
... husband a power over you which he will not fail to abuse , —that I can promise you , from what I know of his character , and from what I now discover of yours . No woman can withdraw from a connexion of this kind unpunished , more ...
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... husband whom you will have chosen , you will come to want ; and too late , you will look back in your misery , full of remorse , to the virtue and to the true life which you have renounced . " Sara was silent , she was shaken by the ...
... husband whom you will have chosen , you will come to want ; and too late , you will look back in your misery , full of remorse , to the virtue and to the true life which you have renounced . " Sara was silent , she was shaken by the ...
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... husband grumbled . But often- whenever it was necessary - she would return to the subject of his discontent at a time when he was calm , and then talk it over with him ; and this line of tactics succeeded admirably . She made use of ...
... husband grumbled . But often- whenever it was necessary - she would return to the subject of his discontent at a time when he was calm , and then talk it over with him ; and this line of tactics succeeded admirably . She made use of ...
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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.