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... blameless life , by a calm and smiling death , at the early age of Nine Years , This little Volume is inscribed , with tender respect , by his once doating and now lamenting Mother , THE AUTHOR . " These are not words of course . " JOHN.
... blameless life , by a calm and smiling death , at the early age of Nine Years , This little Volume is inscribed , with tender respect , by his once doating and now lamenting Mother , THE AUTHOR . " These are not words of course . " JOHN.
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... calms and storms , unheeded . Yet , though shut out from all these joy - inspiring objects , be not sad , young man ! Other sources of merriment shall chase the frowns of discontent with the smiles of gaiety . A When nature fails to ...
... calms and storms , unheeded . Yet , though shut out from all these joy - inspiring objects , be not sad , young man ! Other sources of merriment shall chase the frowns of discontent with the smiles of gaiety . A When nature fails to ...
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... calm sage . If these high efforts of the art are to thee unattainable , Thy eye , perchance , can scan their worth , Thy taste discover and enjoy their view ; Whilst humbler essays shall , with as beguiling power , give thy leisure ...
... calm sage . If these high efforts of the art are to thee unattainable , Thy eye , perchance , can scan their worth , Thy taste discover and enjoy their view ; Whilst humbler essays shall , with as beguiling power , give thy leisure ...
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Maria Elizabeth Budden. lents , his . blameless , happy life , his calm and sheltered death . And then bless God for all thou hast enjoyed . " Not fate itself upon the past has power . " " But what has been , has been . " And thou hast ...
Maria Elizabeth Budden. lents , his . blameless , happy life , his calm and sheltered death . And then bless God for all thou hast enjoyed . " Not fate itself upon the past has power . " " But what has been , has been . " And thou hast ...
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... calm , peaceful resting place of her lost , loved child , shall draw her mind from sorrow and from discontent , and fill it with holy and with gentle aspirations . She blesses Heaven that he gave him to her . She thanks God for the tran ...
... calm , peaceful resting place of her lost , loved child , shall draw her mind from sorrow and from discontent , and fill it with holy and with gentle aspirations . She blesses Heaven that he gave him to her . She thanks God for the tran ...
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Page 99 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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