The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... received a nosegay of beautiful moss - roses , among which was a letter to herself ; she tore it open , and read the following words : " I have dreamed that I could live ; and truly a life more beautiful and more perfect , than any ro ...
... received a nosegay of beautiful moss - roses , among which was a letter to herself ; she tore it open , and read the following words : " I have dreamed that I could live ; and truly a life more beautiful and more perfect , than any ro ...
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... received a beautiful and costly work - box , with the following lines : " Yes , yes , I can very well believe that the rough rock would be appalling . You will not venture to lay your delicate white hand upon it , little Miss Eva ; will ...
... received a beautiful and costly work - box , with the following lines : " Yes , yes , I can very well believe that the rough rock would be appalling . You will not venture to lay your delicate white hand upon it , little Miss Eva ; will ...
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... we should yet have the plague of another lover ! " It * To say that " a gentleman has received a basket " is the same as saying he is a rejected lover . - M . H. CHAPTER XII . MORE COURTSHIP STILL . JUDGE FRANK had 6 FAMILY CARES.
... we should yet have the plague of another lover ! " It * To say that " a gentleman has received a basket " is the same as saying he is a rejected lover . - M . H. CHAPTER XII . MORE COURTSHIP STILL . JUDGE FRANK had 6 FAMILY CARES.
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... received with much impatience and disregard . The Judge was the only person before whom Sara did not exhibit the dark side of her character . His glance , his presence , seemed to exercise a certain power over her ; besides which , she ...
... received with much impatience and disregard . The Judge was the only person before whom Sara did not exhibit the dark side of her character . His glance , his presence , seemed to exercise a certain power over her ; besides which , she ...
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... received out of charity , all became colder and colder towards me ! " " Ah , do not think so , Sara ! " said the mother . " But even if this were the case , may not some little of it be your own fault ? Do you really do any thing to ...
... received out of charity , all became colder and colder towards me ! " " Ah , do not think so , Sara ! " said the mother . " But even if this were the case , may not some little of it be your own fault ? Do you really do any thing to ...
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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.