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Maria Elizabeth Budden. How good is it when thou art reproved , to shew repentanx . for so shalt thou escape witful Sin . Ver.331 . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE . WRITTEN FOR HER CHILDREN ,. Pub by I.Harris corner S.Paul's Church Yd .
Maria Elizabeth Budden. How good is it when thou art reproved , to shew repentanx . for so shalt thou escape witful Sin . Ver.331 . THE PLEASURES OF LIFE . WRITTEN FOR HER CHILDREN ,. Pub by I.Harris corner S.Paul's Church Yd .
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Maria Elizabeth Budden. THE PLEASURES OF LIFE . WRITTEN FOR HER CHILDREN , BY A MOTHER . AUTHOR OF " ALWAYS HAPPY , " & c . & c . He seemed of life " The very principle . - Happy in living . " JOHN SCOTT . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS ...
Maria Elizabeth Budden. THE PLEASURES OF LIFE . WRITTEN FOR HER CHILDREN , BY A MOTHER . AUTHOR OF " ALWAYS HAPPY , " & c . & c . He seemed of life " The very principle . - Happy in living . " JOHN SCOTT . LONDON : PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS ...
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Maria Elizabeth Budden. THE following work was written , because a smiling circle of Children asked their Mother for another of her Books . It was written in a kind of measured prose , because it was observed , that the young People read ...
Maria Elizabeth Budden. THE following work was written , because a smiling circle of Children asked their Mother for another of her Books . It was written in a kind of measured prose , because it was observed , that the young People read ...
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... child , short was thy earthly doom , Yet as the rosebud's brilliant scent and hue , Gives promise of a glorious ripened bloom , So was thy childhood to the presage true ! Oh ! thou wert born , so good , so pure , Thou hadst no need ...
... child , short was thy earthly doom , Yet as the rosebud's brilliant scent and hue , Gives promise of a glorious ripened bloom , So was thy childhood to the presage true ! Oh ! thou wert born , so good , so pure , Thou hadst no need ...
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... children young goslings and covered . But we will leave the heath and wan- der through the wood . How sweetly the wind sighs through the embowering branches of the trees ! How bright the green of the freshly expanded foliage ! How soft ...
... children young goslings and covered . But we will leave the heath and wan- der through the wood . How sweetly the wind sighs through the embowering branches of the trees ! How bright the green of the freshly expanded foliage ! How soft ...
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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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