Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... CONTENTS OF CHAPTER X. Thankfulness and Trust--Italy and America--Home Scenes--Illness and Death of her Youngest Son--Edinburgh and Ilfracombe--Last Correspondence with Isaac Taylor--His Death--Last Visit to Lavenham--A Hint of the End. CHAPTER X. NOTTINGHAM. 1862-1866. "Yes, 80 years! They did not crawl, Nor, as we fancy, fly;--They kept their pace with Time's foot-fall, And slid in silence by." Ann Gilbert. "Christiana, the bitter is before the sweet. Thou must through troubles, as did he that went before thee, enter this celestial city." Bunyan. "A STREAM of comfort has flowed up hill from the low levels of Lavenham: " so wrote our dear mother as she looked back on the long course now nearly closed. "Giving thanks always for all things" might have been her motto through life, and in the bright evening of her days thankfulness, amid some sore trials yet befalling her, was always on her lips. This grateful spirit illuminates every page of the letters now before me. In writing to her brother Isaac, who had remarked, inter alia, "my father was a man of talent, but my mother was a woman of genius," she says--"I rejoice in your full and warm acknowledgement of obligation to our dear parents. When I reflect on their mutual disadvantages, I wonder! They extracted good out of much evil, --taught by contraries; and I own most thankfully how much of any right views I have, is due to them. It is very nice to feel a stream of benefit flowing over us, so long and so widely, from that modest source. I do love and revere their memories." In similar strain she wrote the following--My father! Well the name he bore, For never man was father more; Gentle but firm, his loving eye Looked with no grudge as by and bye His quiver filling to the brim, (St...
