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Página 116 - Oh, could I make you feel what it is to pour out the heart when it is pressed down with many sorrows ; to pour it out with confidence to Him in whose hands are life and death, on whose power awaits all that the first enjoys, and in contemplation of whom disappears all that the last can inflict! For we are not as those who die without hope; we know that our Redeemer liveth...
Página 100 - I have loved it as it deserved." — He seized her hand — a languid colour reddened his cheek — a smile brightened faintly in his eye. As he gazed on her, it grew dim, it fixed, it closed — He sighed and fell back on his seat — Miss Walton screamed at the sight — His aunt and the servants rushed into the room — They found them lying motionless together. — His physician happened to call at that instant. Every art was tried to recover them — With Miss Walton they succeeded — But Harley...
Página 117 - and I trust I shall ever hold it fast ; — if there are any who doubt our faith, let them think of what importance religion is to calamity, and forbear to weaken its force ; if they cannot restore our happiness, let them not take away the solace of our affliction.
Página 107 - The sick man was wrapt in Blankets, and carried across the street to the English gentleman's. The old woman helped his daughter to nurse him there. The surgeon, who arrived soon after, prescribed a little, and nature did much for him ; in a week he was able to thank his benefactor.
Página 110 - The old man's sorrow was silent; his daughter sobbed and wept. Her father took her hand, kissed it twice, pressed it to his bosom, threw up his eyes to heaven; and, having wiped off a tear, that was just about to drop from each, began to point out to his guest some of the most striking objects which the prospect afforded.
Página 111 - Mr was no musician, but he was not altogether insensible to music; this fastened on his mind more strongly, from its beauty being unexpected. The solemn prelude introduced a hymn, in which such of the audience as could sing immediately joined; the words were mostly taken from holy writ; it spoke the praises of God, and his care of good men. Something was said of the death of the just, of such as die in the Lord. - The organ was touched with a hand less firm; - it paused, it ceased; and the sobbing...
Página 105 - More than forty years ago, an English philosopher, whose works have since been read and admired by all Europe, resided at a little town in France. Some disappointments in his native country had first driven him abroad, and he was afterwards induced to remain there, from having found, in this retreat, where the connections even of nation and language were avoided, a perfect seclusion and retirement highly favourable to the development of abstract subjects, in which he excelled all the writers of his...
Página 115 - ... place where he then was. He supposed it some piece of bridal merriment, and pushed on his horse that he might be a spectator of the scene; but he was a good deal shocked, on approaching the spot, to find it proceed from the torch of a person clothed in the dress of an attendant on a funeral, and accompanied by several others who, like him, seemed to have been employed in the rites of sepulture. On Mr.
Página 116 - Father of mercies !" said he, " forgive these tears ; assist thy servant to lift up his soul to thee ; to lift to thee the souls of thy people ! My friends, it is good so to do .- at all seasons it is good ; but in the days of our distress, what a privilege it is ! Well saith the sacred book, Trust in the Lord ; at all times trust in the Lord.
Página 121 - I would make the reflections it may excite in my readers, useful to others who may suffer from similar causes, There are many, I fear, from whom their country has called brothers, sons, or fathers, to bleed in her service forlorn, like poor Nancy Collins, with ' no • relation in the world to own them.