Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230080314
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)
Book Synopsis The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Author of Jane Eyre , Shirley , Villette by E. C. Gaskell. in 2 Volumes Volume 1 by : Elizabeth Gaskell
Download or read book The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Author of Jane Eyre , Shirley , Villette by E. C. Gaskell. in 2 Volumes Volume 1 written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ...beside me, under the roof of my own dear quiet home. If I could always live with you, and daily read the Bible with you--if your lips and mine could at the same time drink the same draught, from the same pure fountain of mercy--I hope, I trust, I might one day become better, far better than my nEsrormEser. 1 45 evil, wandering thoughts, my corrupt heart, cold to the spirit and warm to the flesh, will now permit me to be. I often plan the pleasant life which we might lead together, strengthening each other in that power of self-denial, that hallowed and glowing devotion, which the first saints of God often attained to. My eyes fill with tears when I contrast the bliss of such a state, brightened by hopes of the future, with the melancholy state I now live in, uncertain that I ever felt true eontrition, wandering in thought and deed, longing forholiness, which I shall never, never obtain, smitten at times to the heart with the conviction that ghastly Calvinistie doctrines are true--darkened, in short, by the very shadows of spiritual death. If Christian perfection be necessary to salvation, I shall never be saved; my heart is a very hot-bed for sinful thoughts, and when I decide on an action I scarcely remember to look to my Redeemer for direction. I know not how to pray; I cannot bend my life to the grand end of doing good; I go on constantly seeking my own pleasure, pursuing the gratification of my own desires. I forget God, and will not God forget me? And, meantime, I know the greatness of Jehovah; I acknowledge the perfection.of His word; I adore the purity of the Christian faith; my theory is right, my practice horribly wrong." The Christmas holidays came, and she and Anne return ed to the parsonage, and to that happy home circle...
