Lorette: The History of Louise, Daughter of a Canadian Nun; Exhibiting the Interior of Female ConventsWm. A. Mercein, 1833 - 244 páginas |
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... asked the anxious Louise . Chretien then requested her to examine the shorn spot on Diganu's head : but she had no sooner seen the talismanic mark , than she sunk into her chair almost fainting . When she was restored ; " Diganu - said ...
... asked the anxious Louise . Chretien then requested her to examine the shorn spot on Diganu's head : but she had no sooner seen the talismanic mark , than she sunk into her chair almost fainting . When she was restored ; " Diganu - said ...
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... asked me that at first " -- Louise neekly answered- " and my gratitude and candor would have induced me to confess that I belong to no visible Church . " 1 " This justifies exactly what Chretien and I have thought - rejoined Diganu - we ...
... asked me that at first " -- Louise neekly answered- " and my gratitude and candor would have induced me to confess that I belong to no visible Church . " 1 " This justifies exactly what Chretien and I have thought - rejoined Diganu - we ...
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... asked - They say that a Nun passes the most holy , peaceful and heavenly life possible . " " Ah ! ma chere , my dear - she uttered with much feeling - vous vous etes meprise , you are intirely mis- taken . It is the most miserable , and ...
... asked - They say that a Nun passes the most holy , peaceful and heavenly life possible . " " Ah ! ma chere , my dear - she uttered with much feeling - vous vous etes meprise , you are intirely mis- taken . It is the most miserable , and ...
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... asked her tremulously , " is it possible such things can be true ? " " As true - Marguerite replied - as that I am upon the very verge of eternity ; and from very indistinct recollections of past things , which you have brought afresh ...
... asked her tremulously , " is it possible such things can be true ? " " As true - Marguerite replied - as that I am upon the very verge of eternity ; and from very indistinct recollections of past things , which you have brought afresh ...
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... asked me some questions respecting my ideas of a conventual life , my age , my predilections , and my views of the future . I replied as cautiously and inde- cisively as I possibly could . The siren pretended to express her delight at ...
... asked me some questions respecting my ideas of a conventual life , my age , my predilections , and my views of the future . I replied as cautiously and inde- cisively as I possibly could . The siren pretended to express her delight at ...
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Página 240 - I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
Página 129 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Página 229 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Página 200 - While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
Página 200 - And forgettest the Lord thy maker, That hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth ; And hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, As if he were ready to destroy ? And where is the fury of the oppressor?
Página 240 - O that I had wings like a dove ! For then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Página 177 - Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the Mediator• of the new covenant.
Página 149 - Care flees before his footsteps, straying. At daybreak, o'er the purple heath ; He plucks the wild flowers round him playing, And binds their beauty in a wreath. More dear to him the fields and mountains, When with his friend abroad he roves, Rests in the shade near sunny fountains. Or talks by moonlight...
Página 122 - Yea, in soul my friend and brother still ? Heaven received thee, and on earth none other Can the void in my lorn bosom fill. Where is she, whose looks were love and gladness ? — Love and gladness I no longer see ! She is gone ; and, since that hour of sadness, Nature seems her sepulchre to me. Where am I ? — life's current faintly flowing Brings the welcome warning of release ; Struck with death, ah ! whither am I going ? All is well, — my spirit parts in peace.
Página 93 - That thou wilt hail my second birth, When death shall reunite us, Where worlds no more can sever Parent and child for ever. THE WIDOW AND THE FATHERLESS WELL, thou art gone, and I am left : But oh ! how cold and dark to me This world, of every charm bereft, Where all was beautiful with thee ! Though I have seen thy form depart For ever from my widow'd eye, I hold thee in mine inmost heart ; There, there at least, thou canst not die. Farewell on earth : Heaven claim'd its own , Yet, when from me thy...