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... better world . May the memory of every such mother be con- secrated , with equally reverential gratitude , in the hearts of all she leaves behind , and may every family , as mournfully bereft of such a parent , be enabled to say , with ...
... better world . May the memory of every such mother be con- secrated , with equally reverential gratitude , in the hearts of all she leaves behind , and may every family , as mournfully bereft of such a parent , be enabled to say , with ...
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... better ordained by Him who consults not our wishes , but our real interests , and who created us much more for another world than for this . 66 Through sorrow's night , and danger's path , Amid the deepening gloom , We , soldiers of an ...
... better ordained by Him who consults not our wishes , but our real interests , and who created us much more for another world than for this . 66 Through sorrow's night , and danger's path , Amid the deepening gloom , We , soldiers of an ...
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... , the brightest and the saddest feelings of human nature , and is ready to declare with her latest breath , that " " Tis better in all to be resigned than blessed . " CHAPTER III . " Where'er my foot can tread The 26 JANE BOUVERIE .
... , the brightest and the saddest feelings of human nature , and is ready to declare with her latest breath , that " " Tis better in all to be resigned than blessed . " CHAPTER III . " Where'er my foot can tread The 26 JANE BOUVERIE .
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... better , a happier , or a more useful lot . I am already dead to every worldly interest . The friends who loved and the enemies who injured me are no more ; every sorrow is subdued , every joy at an end ; most events are forgotten ; and ...
... better , a happier , or a more useful lot . I am already dead to every worldly interest . The friends who loved and the enemies who injured me are no more ; every sorrow is subdued , every joy at an end ; most events are forgotten ; and ...
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... better than any thing belonging to another , his wife , his children , his house , and his garden , he always considered as unrivaled throughout the world ; and he made it a duty as much as it was a pleasure to cultivate happiness in ...
... better than any thing belonging to another , his wife , his children , his house , and his garden , he always considered as unrivaled throughout the world ; and he made it a duty as much as it was a pleasure to cultivate happiness in ...
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Page 109 - Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Page 177 - One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting...
Page 230 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 216 - He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger : I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.
Page 34 - Yet soon reviving plants and flowers Anew shall deck the plain ; The woods shall hear the voice of Spring, And flourish green again.
Page 222 - Whom the gods love die young,' was said of yore,' And many deaths do they escape by this: The death of friends, and that which slays even more — The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is, Except mere...
Page 133 - How proud they can press to the funeral array Of one whom they shunned in his sickness and sorrow : — How bailiffs may seize his last blanket to-day, Whose pall shall be held up by nobles to-morrow...
Page 232 - ... beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, he is changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.