This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... Emily; for 'your mind is stayed on him.' Would mine were equally so! Do not be anxious about my health: I am not unwell, though occasionally depressed. Emily To Alphonzo. At the Glen, Sept. SO. While we rejoiced in the arrival of your letter, and in the assurance it brought us, though too dubiously ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... Emily; for 'your mind is stayed on him.' Would mine were equally so! Do not be anxious about my health: I am not unwell, though occasionally depressed. Emily To Alphonzo. At the Glen, Sept. SO. While we rejoiced in the arrival of your letter, and in the assurance it brought us, though too dubiously expressed, that you were well, we participated deeply in the melancholy spirit it breathed. I need not tell you, how sincerely one of the family sympathizes with you in all you feel. Continue, dear Alphonzo, to open your sorrows to her, for it affords her a mournful gratification to have that communion with your afflictions; and you will thence, perhaps, derive some alleviation of your distress, as anguish, of whatever nature it may be, is relieved by laying it on the bosom of another, who is willing to share its load. c Be comforted, however, by the full persuasion, that these troubles are from a Father's hand: 'they come not of the dust, neither do they spring out of the ground/ When our path is strewed only with roses, we are too apt to be enamoured of our present condition. Whatever, therefore, has a tendency to awaken us from the pleasing delusion, should be considered as the effect of that love, from whence floweth every blessing we enjoy; and ought, doubtless, increasingly to endear our anticipated repose. The swell of the ocean, and the buffeting of the tempest, which the seaman encounters on his voyage, teach him to value the quietude of his desired haven, where neither wind nor wave will assail his bark. But do not imagine, Alphonzo, that I thus speak, as if I could myself always so regard trials. Alas, no! Your Emily is a poor weak girl, and ought rather to be sitting at the feet of her Divine Instructor, than offering counsel, ...
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