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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the southern horizon, the entire line of the snow- crowned Alps, diminished by distance to delightful miniature, and glowing with golden light from the rounded summit of Mont Blanc, through the wonderful range of the Bernese Oberland to the crags which overhang the Lake of Lucerne. Near at hand, across the Lake of Bienne, lies the isle of St Pierre, Rousseau's retreat, and the town, hill, and plain of Morat, where Charles the Bold met with one of his most signal defeats at the hands of the free Swiss whom he despised. Away to the west, stands conspicuous the lofty Chaumont, another of the Jura chain, clad with the same rich forests, belted with the same fruitful vineyards, while the white town of Neuchatel nestles at its feet. . The village of Lignieres is a substantial place, built of the tall stone cottages so numerous in French Switzerland, and so strikingly contrasted with the handsome ornamented wooden chalets of the adjacent Canton of Berne. Heaps of logs, from which the village takes its name, lie scattered about the place, for the trade of its inhabitants consists to a great degree in providing from the dense forests supplies of firewood for the neighbouring towns and villages of the Canton of Neuchatel. In this village, on the 10th of May, 1799, Alphonse FRANgois Lacroix was born. His father dying soon after his birth, he was taken to reside with his uncle, M. Chanel, who received him among his own children, and watched over his young charge with the most tender and paternal care. This excellent man and devoted Christian resided at Cormondreche, a village just outside the town of Neuchatel, where he maintained a flourishing boarding-school. He was one of the few godly men who in that age of formalism and unbelief were not ashamed to confess Christ, and that, too, amo..


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217729130
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217729134
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 204 gr


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