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Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published (Volume 18) - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1830. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... and a merry heart. It was the bible which supported me under the several years' affliction of a beloved wife, in which I truly suffered with her; it was that book which enabled her, although young, to die with joy, and in full and certain hope of a glorious resurrection. When this charming young woman died, I also was given over; my soul was, as it were, hovering on my lips, just ready to depart. In this awful crisis, my amiable wife gone, all around me expecting the moment when time to me should be no longer-- , 'The dim lamp of life just feebly left An agonizing beam, around to gaze, Then sink back again.' In this awful situation I remained a long time, how long I know not, perhaps a week or weeks; yet even in this state, although more dead than alive, did the divine promises contained in the sacred pages support and comfort me, so that at that time I was filled with inexpressible pleasure. In those moments I could believe that I was 'A glorious partner with the Deity In that high attribute, Eternal Life.-- I gaz'd, and as I gaz'd, my mounting soul Caught fire, Eternity, at thee r And dropp'd the world.'-- "Say, ye infidels 1 in your thoughtful moments, why would you deprive your poor fellow mortals of that which alone can support them amidst the complicated miseries to which we are exposed? "Notwithstanding I had, as I have observed before, been some time relaxing in religious principles and duties, yet no tongue or pen can describe what I felt at times, on relinquishing the volume which contained the words of eternal life: but it was wrenched from me. For I was so destitute of knowledge and abilities, as not to be able to answer the witty and artful objections of that arch infidel Voltaire, and others whose works soon after I read. I must confess, that I fel...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 021772258X
- ISBN 13 9780217722582
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages106
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