This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...And famed ancestral hospitality. A cool repose lay grateful through the place; And pleasant duties, --promptly, truly done, And every service touched by hidden springs, Oiled with intelligence--moved smoothly round." WOOLNBR. HUSTLY LODGE. During the winter of 1836 the widowed Duchess lived at Pau, whence in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...And famed ancestral hospitality. A cool repose lay grateful through the place; And pleasant duties, --promptly, truly done, And every service touched by hidden springs, Oiled with intelligence--moved smoothly round." WOOLNBR. HUSTLY LODGE. During the winter of 1836 the widowed Duchess lived at Pau, whence in spring she wrote in her own thankful spirit to one of her old friends in Aberdeen-shire: "Paw, 20lh Febry. 1837.--I have little to say but of the continued goodness and mercy of my God; who, while he leads me further and further into the wilderness and into an increasing sense of desolation as regards this world, shows me more of his unspeakable love in so doing, and in taking away all else says only the more loudly, 'Thou art mine: ' purchased with his own blood, comforted by his own Spirit, and enabled to rest on him as an all-sufficient portion, Saviour, God, and Father." Four months later she wrote again on her journey homeward, and in the painful prospect of returning to her now desolate home: "Brive, 21st June 1837.---I have seen during the last winter more of the hidden depths of iniquity, than I could have any idea of without the help of that light which is promised to those who seek it. But we must be brought very low, before anything more than a general idea of sin can be attained; and while we have any lurking notion that we are better than those we live amongst, this is impossible. We must indeed see with St. Paul that you or I is the chief of sinners; we must be convinced that, according to the light given us, we have done less for Christ than any one around us. The Lord alone can know how far each of us acts up to the light we have. But of this I am sure, no other human eye can be aware how little we avail ourselves of the...
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