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... memory of the amiable Boy , snatched from the joyous group , because he more than once expressed a wish for a Dedication from his Mother's pen . That mourning Mother's sweetest occupation is to think upon him , recal his virtues and his ...
... memory of the amiable Boy , snatched from the joyous group , because he more than once expressed a wish for a Dedication from his Mother's pen . That mourning Mother's sweetest occupation is to think upon him , recal his virtues and his ...
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... with all things , and to find happiness in every event , ren- ders the Dedication of a Work , professing to treat of the Pleasures of Life , to his Me- mory , peculiarly appropriate . DEDICATION . TO THE ENDEARED MEMORY OF J. H. B..
... with all things , and to find happiness in every event , ren- ders the Dedication of a Work , professing to treat of the Pleasures of Life , to his Me- mory , peculiarly appropriate . DEDICATION . TO THE ENDEARED MEMORY OF J. H. B..
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Maria Elizabeth Budden. DEDICATION . TO THE ENDEARED MEMORY OF J. H. B. , Who closed a happy and blameless life , by a calm and smiling death , at the early age of Nine Years , This little Volume is inscribed , with tender respect , by ...
Maria Elizabeth Budden. DEDICATION . TO THE ENDEARED MEMORY OF J. H. B. , Who closed a happy and blameless life , by a calm and smiling death , at the early age of Nine Years , This little Volume is inscribed , with tender respect , by ...
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... with all things , and to find happiness in every event , renders the Dedication of a Work , professing to treat of the Pleasures of Life , to his Memory , peculiarly appropriate . DEDICATION . TO THE ENDEARED MEMORY OF J. H. B..
... with all things , and to find happiness in every event , renders the Dedication of a Work , professing to treat of the Pleasures of Life , to his Memory , peculiarly appropriate . DEDICATION . TO THE ENDEARED MEMORY OF J. H. B..
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... , and for " him gone before , " Let memory supply reality , and give him often to thy thought , when now no longer given to thine eye . Think upon all his virtues , all his ta- lents , his . blameless , happy life , his 106 THE PLEASURES.
... , and for " him gone before , " Let memory supply reality , and give him often to thy thought , when now no longer given to thine eye . Think upon all his virtues , all his ta- lents , his . blameless , happy life , his 106 THE PLEASURES.
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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.
Page 107 - The FIRST BOOK for CHILDREN of Four Years old, containing chiefly Words of One Syllable, being an Introduction to Mrs. Barbauld's Lessons.
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