Book/Printed Material Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers:
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Image 1 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers:- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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- Date: 1842
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Image 4 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers:- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 5 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: /Y FLORAL BIOGRAPHY.- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 6 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers:- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 7 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: FLORAL BIOGRAPHY; OR CHAPTERS ON FLOWERS BI CHAia.OTTE ELIZABETH. FOURTH AMERICAN FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION. NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY M. W. DODD, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, CORNER OF PARK ROW AND SPRUCE...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 8 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: tk St 7 A^ 9 D 05- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 9 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: CONTENTS. Page. CHAPTER I. The Snow-Drop 7 CHAPTER II. The Furze-Bush 24 CHAPTER III. The Shamrock 39 CHAPTER IV. The Heart s. Ease 53 CHAPTER V. The Hawthorn 67 CHAPTER VI. The...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 10 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: VI CONTENTS. CHAPTER XII. The HolIy.Bush 150 CHAPTER XIII. The Christmas Rose 162 CHAPTER XIV. The Purple Crocus 174 CHAPTER XV. The Hyacinth 185 CHAPTER XVI The Heart s-Ease 203 CHAPTER XVII....- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 11 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: CHAPTERS ON FLOWERS. CHAPTER I. THE SNOW-DROP. Botany is doubtless a very delightful study but a botanical treatise is one of the last things that I should be found engaged in. Truth...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 12 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 8 THE SNOW-DROP. curse of an offended God. Next after the blessed bible, a flower-garden is to me the most eloquent of books a volume teeming with instruction, con- solation, and reproof,...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 13 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW-DROP. what has been often said and sung concerning it, but proceed to that of which it is a characteristic memento. Merely premising that in this, and every subsequent sketch, I...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 14 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 10 THE SNOW-DROP. of her deportment during prayers, and the earnest- ness of her attention to the preacher. After quitting the church, I asked a friend if he knew who she was...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 15 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW-DROP. 11 tfVk«esceiice that had before led her into the revel- ries of the ball-room, did she sit down to read with her husband the word of God, or kneel beside...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 16 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 12 THE SNOW-DROP. hibited as resulting from this specious self-decep- tion We know, saith the apostle, that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. The test, when...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 17 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW-DROK 13 of his healthful cheek, and increasing pensiveness of his eye, bespoke the internal conflict, he yielded to the snare so far as to devote many precious hours which might...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 18 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 14 THE SNOW-DROP. stated, while Frederick perceptibly drooped more and more, under the struggle that divine grace enabled him to maintain against temptations, too frequently successful, to compromise his Christian simplicity of...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 19 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW-DROP. 15 of immediate danger but the medical men pro- nounced it indispensable that he should return to his native England without delay and, two years leave of absence being granted,...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 20 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 16 THE SNOW DROP. his happiness. But, whenever withdrawn from his siglit, the tempest would break forth with such maddening violence, that it was astonishing how she could survive the paroxysms. Thoughts...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 21 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW DROP. 17 with a look of sweet sympathy, that the Lord would soon bring her to Himself; but that he saw it needful first to remove the object of her...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 22 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 18 THE SNOW DROP. ship rolled on and even the eye of such loves as Theresa s might never, never catch a trace where- by to discern the spot of his obsequies....- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 23 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW DROP. 19 the death-bed of her husband. Consumption, lingering but confirmed, had shown itself before I saw her; grief had bowed her once elegant fig- ure, and I cannot look...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 24 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 20 THE SNOW DROP. to Christ evidence that the clearness of her views was not merely an operation of the mind it was an illumination of the soul. Yet though enabled to...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 25 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW DROP. 21 then, seating herself beside me, entered into con- versation. After a while, I renriinded her of the flowers Presently, was the answer and she then commenced a long...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 26 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 22 THE SNOW DROP. She then burst into tears, and told me that her passion for flowers was as great as even mine that it was Frederick s daily task, when in...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 27 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE SNOW DROP. 23 Not long after this, I was surprised by seeing in her own apartnaent. a single, soft white rose in a glass. She pointed it out to me, saying,...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 28 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: CHAPTER II. THE FURZE-BUSH. Nothing venture, nothing have, is one of the homely sayings against which sentence of ban- ishment has been pronounced from the high places of what we are pleased...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 29 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE FURZE-BUSH. 25 ing character for, on the evening in question, I elbowed my way through the laughing, scream- ing little folks, and secretly ejaculating, Nothing venture, nothing have, I bravely plunged...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 30 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 26 THE FURZE-BUSH. ficient to arm me against the whole theory of luck. I notice this with gratitude and as an en- couragement to parents to bring that blessed book within the...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 31 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE FURZE-BTJSH. 27 Nothing venture, nothing have, was my mental reflection, as I inserted my hand, the other day, within the strong fence-work of a hardy furze- bush, to possess myself of...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 32 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 28 THE FURZE-BUSH. There was yet another inducement to gather these buds of furze I was about to pass a spot singularly interesting to me a grave, over which I have often...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 33 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE FURZE-BUSH. 29 memory is precious to me. She was a humble cottager but remarkable for that intelligence which frequently, I may say universally, characterizes even the most uneducated class in her...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 34 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 30 THE FURZE-BUSH. olic chapel, the priest of which justly num- bered Mary among the most determined adherents to the tenets of his erroneous faith. Some time elapsed, (above ten years, I...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 35 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE FURZE-BUSH. 31 had and was told in reply, that she was one of the most zealous papists in the parish. We met occasionally in the street, and always spoke but I...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 36 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 32 THE FURZE-BUSH. her husband and that the priest was too unremit- ting in his attentions to be ignorant of an invasion in that quarter, which he would surely repel, by stirring...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 37 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE FURZE-BUSH. 33 soul put in force to the uttermost his crafty wiles, to the strengthening of a cause that, to all but me, appeared frequently triumphant and when her bold, decided...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 38 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 34 THE FURZE-BUSH. It was when struggling against my own unbelief, so cruelly encouraged by the groundless tales of wilful deceivers and willing dupes, that I was unexpectedly cheered, by the sudden...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 39 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: THE FURZE-BUSH. 35 Two things made against the apparent reality of dear Mary s conversion one was, that she long per- sisted in a falsehood, the tendency of which was to screen...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842
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Image 40 of Floral biography; or, Chapters on flowers: 36 THE FURZE-BUSH. could not enter into my views, because they saw not that wherein I was daily privileged to rejoice. It was a small matter to her, or to me, to...- Contributor: Charlotte Elizabeth
- Date: 1842