. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. e soul haddeparted. He wept. That son who was to succeed him in all his honors,and share them with him in his lifetime, he was never to see more. Thefruits and honors of his laborious life were to be left to strangers. And now, in the midst of all his triumphs, the secret sting of sadnessremains buried in his heart. Providence has so dispensed the good andthe evil of life, that every man, whatever his station, or however happyhis lot, finds crosses and afflictions which always cou
. Portraits of eminent Americans now living : with biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions. e soul haddeparted. He wept. That son who was to succeed him in all his honors,and share them with him in his lifetime, he was never to see more. Thefruits and honors of his laborious life were to be left to strangers. And now, in the midst of all his triumphs, the secret sting of sadnessremains buried in his heart. Providence has so dispensed the good andthe evil of life, that every man, whatever his station, or however happyhis lot, finds crosses and afflictions which always counterbalance hispleasures. There is no perfect happiness on earth. Prosperity is adream; glory a mistake; the world a deception, which feeds only vainphantoms, leaving nothing solid in the heart. God alone can comfort our afflictions; and, in the meditation of hisholy law, and submission to his eternal decrees, do the bereaved parentsseek those solid consolations which they have never found in the world,and which, while softening their afflictions here below, will secure tothem their immortal reward
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