THE

JOURNEY OF LIFE.

RECENT circumstances oblige the Author distinctly to state, that every volume bearing her name has been completed, and ready for the press, before it was seen by any individual whatever; therefore, not a line is by any pen but her own.

THE

JOURNEY OF LIFE.

BY

CATHERINE SINCLAIR,

AUTHOR OF

"MODERN ACCOMPLISHMENTS," " JANE BOUVERIE,"

&c.

"It was ever my object to search out why I came into the world,
what I ought to do in it, and where I shall go."-Memoirs of Lady
Hester Stanhope, vol. i. p. 142.

LONDON:

SPOTTISWOODE and SHAW,

New-street-Square.

The necessity of looking beyond the present hour

to an eternal futurity

10

CHAPTER IV.

The real benefit of affliction

CHAPTER V.

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37

This world is, and ought to be, an unsatisfying portion 52

CHAPTER VI.

Inequality in the length and in the happiness of

men's lives

68

CHAPTER VII.