The Home: Or, Family Cares and Family Joys, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1843 - Swedish fiction |
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... speak only of myself and my own happiness . Ah , the egotist - the cursed egotist ! Can I make you happy also , Eva ? Is it not audacity in me to desire —ah , Eva , I love you inexpressibly ! " I leave the egotist in your hand : do with ...
... speak only of myself and my own happiness . Ah , the egotist - the cursed egotist ! Can I make you happy also , Eva ? Is it not audacity in me to desire —ah , Eva , I love you inexpressibly ! " I leave the egotist in your hand : do with ...
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... speak , I fancy , but with one another ! " A light was burning in Sara's chamber far into the night . She was busied for a long time with her journal ; she wrote with a flying but unsteady hand . " So , to - morrow ; to - morrow all ...
... speak , I fancy , but with one another ! " A light was burning in Sara's chamber far into the night . She was busied for a long time with her journal ; she wrote with a flying but unsteady hand . " So , to - morrow ; to - morrow all ...
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... if you had lent a more willing ear to my maternal counsellings ; All mothers speak thus - but not all , nay , not many with the same right as Elise . will perhaps come to deplore that you rewarded the love 12 FAMILY CARES.
... if you had lent a more willing ear to my maternal counsellings ; All mothers speak thus - but not all , nay , not many with the same right as Elise . will perhaps come to deplore that you rewarded the love 12 FAMILY CARES.
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... speak with you about it , and prevent Petrea's young steps from treading this path of error without a guide . ” 66 People may think what they please , " said Sara , " of the influence of the book , but I conceive that author deserves ...
... speak with you about it , and prevent Petrea's young steps from treading this path of error without a guide . ” 66 People may think what they please , " said Sara , " of the influence of the book , but I conceive that author deserves ...
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... speaking , you cannot esteem . Descend into your own heart , and see its error while there is yet time to retrieve it , before you are crushed by your own folly . Do not fly from affectionate , careful friends - do not fly from the ...
... speaking , you cannot esteem . Descend into your own heart , and see its error while there is yet time to retrieve it , before you are crushed by your own folly . Do not fly from affectionate , careful friends - do not fly from the ...
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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.