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Quote: Family and sacrifice in harsh environments

It took place, however, and thus in 1799 the family was still further cemented by the union of a representative of the male or worldly element with one of the female and devout.
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Many years later, I understand some small recovery to have been made; but at the moment almost the whole means of the family seem to have perished with the young merchants.
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Mrs. Smith had failed in her design to make her son a minister, and she saw him daily more immersed in business and worldly ambition.
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On the 27th April, eleven days after Hugh Stevenson, twenty-nine before Alan, died David Lillie, the Deacon of the Wrights; so that mother and son were orphaned in one month.
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Religious they both were... But the current of their endeavours flowed in a more obvious channel... Scott was in the same town nourishing similar dreams.
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Space: Records Of A Family Of Engineers - Stevenson

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