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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... kind- ness and intercourse had been so benevolent and frater- nally delicate , than to expose herself to the terrifying dangers from which she had so recently and marvel- lously escaped . Under the concealment of darkness , she left her ...
... kind- ness and intercourse had been so benevolent and frater- nally delicate , than to expose herself to the terrifying dangers from which she had so recently and marvel- lously escaped . Under the concealment of darkness , she left her ...
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... kind and affec- tionate as a brother , was not so easily impressed as Diganu ; and " it is questionable , whether sound poli- cy - as Chretien remarked - if not our mutual safety does not require , that Louise should be persuaded , at ...
... kind and affec- tionate as a brother , was not so easily impressed as Diganu ; and " it is questionable , whether sound poli- cy - as Chretien remarked - if not our mutual safety does not require , that Louise should be persuaded , at ...
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... kind to me , and her demeanor at our last interview . " The feeble Christian woman continued- " I lef the Roman Church in Guernsey - as I have always been ailing ; and nobody cared much about me , I have contrived to live here without ...
... kind to me , and her demeanor at our last interview . " The feeble Christian woman continued- " I lef the Roman Church in Guernsey - as I have always been ailing ; and nobody cared much about me , I have contrived to live here without ...
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... kind and flattering language , but all was ineffectual . She mut- tered to herself in soliloquy ; avowing her unwilling- ness to stay after dark ; her wish to have a man in the house ; and a number of other similar com- plaints . When ...
... kind and flattering language , but all was ineffectual . She mut- tered to herself in soliloquy ; avowing her unwilling- ness to stay after dark ; her wish to have a man in the house ; and a number of other similar com- plaints . When ...
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... kind- ness , your sympathy , and your virtues ; but inexplica- ble as is the fact , I never had the slightest connubial attachment or inclination for you . " This is truly astonishing - subjoined Diganu- there is something so attractive ...
... kind- ness , your sympathy , and your virtues ; but inexplica- ble as is the fact , I never had the slightest connubial attachment or inclination for you . " This is truly astonishing - subjoined Diganu- there is something so attractive ...
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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...