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Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing), VI. Jamaica Plain. (search)
dear at the altar? How would I pile up the votive offerings, and crowd the fires with incense! Life might be full and fair; for, in my own way, I could live for my friends. Dec. 8th, 1840.—My book of amusement has been the Evenings of St. Petersburg. I do not find the praises bestowed on it at all exaggerated. Yet De Maistre is too logical for me. I only catch a thought here and there along the page. There is a grandeur even in the subtlety of his mind. He walks with a step so still,er, who had borne all without a complaint. Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. The poor are the generous; the injured, the patient and loving. All that——said of this girl was in perfect harmony with what De Maistre says of the saint of St. Petersburg, who, almost devoured by cancer, when asked, Quelle est la premiere grace que vous demanderez a Dieu, ma chere enfant, lorsque vous serez devant lui? she replied, Je lui demanderai pour mes bienfaiteurs la grace de l'aimer autant que je l'ai<