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Page 82 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to...
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Page 15 - Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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Page 71 - It is quite otherwise with the elements at this season. The cold reigns despotically ; it holds all life fettered in nature ; restrains the heaving of the sea's bosom ; destroys every sprouting grass blade ; forbids the birds to sing and the gnats to sport ; and only its minister, the powerful north wind, rolls freely forth into grey space, and takes heed that every thing keeps itself immoveable and silent.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The President's Daughters: A Narrative of a Governess |
| Author | Fredrika Bremer |
| Publisher | J. Munroe, 1843 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Mar 2007 |
| Length | 86 pages |
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