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"The Cairn: A Gathering of Precious Stones from Many Hands" by Nicolas is a collection of essays, reflections, and anecdotes written in the mid-19th century. This work serves as a compendium of personal musings intertwined with historical observations and biographical snippets, reflecting the author’s own experiences and the sorrows and joys encountered throughout life. It invites readers to contemplate various themes such as love, loss, virtue, and societal conditions, encouraging an appreciation for the "precious stones" of human connection and wisdom. The opening of the collection introduces the author's intention to compile these narratives—a testament to the influence of friends and memories associated with the past. The text features poignant reflections on life and emotions, covering a range of topics from joy and sorrow to anecdotes about historical figures, and musings on human nature. The author's personal struggles and thoughts about grief, love, and societal complexities set the tone for the stories that follow, showcasing an introspective journey through both individual and universal experiences. The beginning serves to create an emotional landscape for the reader, inviting them to engage in a reflective experience on the nuances of life's journey. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

• The Project Gutenberg eBook ofThe cairn
• TO THE READER.
• CONTENTS.
• THE CAIRNA GATHERING OF PRECIOUS STONESFROM MANY HANDS.
• Joy and Sorrow.
• Anne of Austria.
• Maternal Love.
• Anecdote of Cardinal d’Estrées.
• The Cemetry at Pisa.
• Lady Vane.
• Benevolence.
• Sir Walter Raleigh.
• Woman’s Pride.
• Poverty.
• Atheism.
• Detraction—Montesquieu.
• Temper.
• Set forms of expression—Philips.
• Henri Quatre.
• Woman’s pride.
• A Parliament Heel.
• On a new-born Child—Sir W. Jones.
• Speech of Mr. Cuffe.
• Woman’s Devotion.
• Savage the Poet.
• A Fable—The Hon. Henry Erskine, late Lord Advocate of Scotland.
• Reflection.
• Poverty.
• Thought.
• Charity twice blessed.
• Portrait of CharlesI.
• The Ballard.
• On a Lady not celebrated for cleanliness—The late Lord Chancellor, The Lord Erskine.
• Thought.
• Lady M. W. Montague.
• Inscrutable Providence.
• The Mother of the Cagot.
• Virtue of Absence.
• Overstrained Feeling.
• The Essex Ring.
• Reflections.
• A Prayer.
• Letter from his late Majesty, King William IV.
• Joan of Arc.
• Bear and forbear.
• A gentleman.
• The awakened Idolater.
• Henry IV. of France.
• Time.
• Charles I.
• Merit and good Fortune.
• The Petition of a Monkey—Lord Erskine, late Chancellor.
• Taste and Custom.
• Filial Duty.
• King of Prussia and Voltaire.
• To a daughter on her marriage.
• JamesI.
• On the Death of the Hon. John Gore.
• Abraham to Isaac.
• Zarapha to Rebecca.
• The Mansion of Rest.
• National Tacitur­nity.
• Election by Balls.
• Anecdote of Robes­pierre.
• The Old Woman and her Ass—The Hon. Henry Erskine, Lord Advocate of Scotland.
• Life a mingled yarn.
• HenryVIII.and FrancisI.
• Anecdote of Torregiano.
• Decline of Families.
• Thought.
• Confiance.
• Robert Bruce.
• How to meet afflictions.
• Soho.
• Loss of a Parent.
• Fruit.
• Thought.
• Anecdote of Frederick the Great.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Equity.
• Mussulman.
• Matthias, Count Thurnes.
• Sir Thomas More.
• Key to Happiness
• John de Pelham.
• A Prayer on the Prospect of Death.
• Thought.
• Whitehall.
• Adieu.
• Indiffe­rence.
• Unrequited Love.
• The Cross.
• Solitude.
• Prayer—Voltaire.
• Method of preserving a Plant.
• Misfor­tune a crime.
• Grecian Tablets.
• Christmas Day.
• GeorgeIV.
• Ton of the French.
• Frederick the Great.
• The Widow of Barnevelt.
• Filial Love.
• Politeness.
• Submis­sion to Provi­dence.
• A Gentle­man.
• Love silent.
• The Wandering Jew.
• Statues.
• Charles, Prince of Wales.
• Affliction.
• Philadelphia.
• Calumny.
• Constancy.
• The Baths of Schlangenbad.
• Tradition.
• Sicilians.
• Ancient Poetry.
• The Hottentots.
• Sedley.
• On the Loss of a Watch—Lord Erskine.
• Sensibility or Indifference—Lord Erskine.
• L’amicale Persévérance.
• Epigram.
• To the May Fly.
• From my Mother.
• To revive a Flower.
• Scenes from the Life of Titian.
• Trees for my Cottage.
• The Hand of Heaven.
• Effects of Sorrow on the Mind.
• Bayle and his Mother.
• Traditions.
• The Graves of the Departed loved.
• Eyes of the Mind.
• Philosophy.
• Refinement.
• Sea Bathing.
• Effect of Scenery.
• Inscription on a Sun Dial.
• Law of Jury.
• Tradition.
• Tobacco.
• Duchesse d’Abrantes.
• Philip II. of Spain of Spain.
• Beauty.
• Jacobite Poetry.
• Ill-placed Confidence.
• Charity of Mind.
• Bells.
• La Mélancolie.
• A Fire Screen.
• Banquo’s Son.
• Uncertainty.
• The Drowning Fly.
• The Mulgrave Family.
• Le Bonheur.
• Catherine de Medicis.
• Epitaph.
• Prosperity and Adversity.
• The great Condé.
• Resignation.
• Le Tems.
• A Reflection—Seneca.
• Maréchale de Luxe­mbourg.
• The Spider.
• On Fenelon.
• Flowers.
• To-morrow.
• Letter of Marian Delorme.
• Physiog­nomy.
• A Father’s Death Bed.
• The Plague.
• Trifles.
• Margaret of Anjou and Renè of Sicily.
• To Julia.
• Good Nature.
• Welsh Air.
• Lines by Henry VI.
• Manner.
• Lines by Raleigh.
• Speech of a Shawanese Chief.
• Greek Costume.
• On a Rose growing in a Skull—Gen. Carrol.
• Chapter 186
• A fearful Witness.
• Thirteenth Century.
• Game of Cassino.
• Local As­socia­tions.
• On the Choice of a Wife.
• HenryIV.
• Prayer by Mary Queen of Scots.
• Anecdote of the Duke of Suffolk.
• To the Memory of Sir Thomas Picton.
• True Magnani­mity.
• On a Music Master—The Hon. H. Erskine.
• The Emperor and the Opera Dancer.
• Gibbon.
• Herveys.
• Coquetry.
• Charles X.
• FamilyMSS.
• Dirge.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Sir Thomas More.
• Thought.
• Providence—Felicaii.
• Cromwell.
• Spanish Proverb.
• Epigram—The Hon. H. Erskine.
• Hyder Ali—Burke.
• The Seal.
• Thought.
• Pride of Birth.
• The Pretender.
• Chloe—The Hon. H. Erskine.
• Thought.
• Duke of Bucking­ham.
• A Portrait.
• Church­yards in Denmark.
• Machiavelli.
• Dante.
• Petition of the Wife of an Indian Chief.
• Volcanos.
• Saint George.
• Poem.
• Queen of Bohemia—Sir H. Wootton
• Thought.
• Fire from Heaven.
• Origin of Coats of Arms.
• Lord Bacon.
• Bells.
• Arthur’s Round Table.
• Sir Walter Raleigh.
• Saint George.
• Duelling.
• Delight in Disorder—Herrick.
• Lord Strafford’s Meditations.
• Time.
• Lamentations selfish.
• Thought.
• Lines from the Spanish.
• Phrenology.
• Stoves.
• Christina, Queen of Sweden.
• Chapter 248
• Sir Benjamin Rudyerd.
• King of Prussia’s Guard.
• Premature Judgment.
• Benvenuto Cellini.
• Thought.
• Mind and Body.
• Love.
• Wedding Rings.
• Hope and Grief—W. Maddocks.
• Unjust suspicion.
• Thought.
• Capucine Friars.
• Arms of the House of Medici.
• Michael Angelo.
• Sir Sidney Smith.
• Bees.
• Bayonets.
• Hope.
• Oliver Cromwell.
• Sandwiches.
• Catherine, Empress of Russia.
• The Milk Score.
• Duke of Monmouth.
• Death.
• Origin of the Title of Earl.
• Thought.
• JamesII.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Sea-fire.
• Lisez et Croyez.
• "To a Lady.
• Trouba­dours.
• Thought.
• Letter from Mde. Du Duffand.
• Thought.
• Pride and Humility.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Voltaire.
• Antipathies.
• Anne of Austria.
• TheMSS.
• Thought.
• The Nursing of Love—Hon. W. Spencer.
• An Opera.
• Calumny or Detraction.
• Goût and Gout—Lord Erskine.
• Les Lazzaroni.
• LouisXVIII.
• Directions to a Porter.
• Title of Sforza.
• Duke of Calabria.
• Love and Reason.
• Clocks.
• Tea and Coffee.
• French and English.
• Scandal.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Personal Beauty.
• Daguerro­type.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Pyramids.
• The Congress.
• Sketch of our Saviour’s Person—Josephus.
• Ennui.
• Thought.
• On an Infant.
• English, French, and Germans.
• Hôtel à Paris “à vendre, ou à louer.”
• Epigram.
• Russian Anecdote.
• Russian Anecdote.
• Hospitality of the remote ages.
• Turkish Anecdote.
• Thought.
• Anti-Moine, or Antimony.
• Extract from Dr. Johnson’s Corres­pondence.
• Earl of Buchan.
• The State of Man.
• Parfilage.
• Taste.
• Les Riens.
• A Cottage in Scot­land.
• Linnæus.
• Hortensia, or Hyd­ranger.
• Filial Affection.
• Vestige of ancient Saxon Dialect.
• The Torpedo.
• Thought.
• Wait and Hope.
• Mother and Child.
• LouisXVIII.
• Educa­tion.
• Dr. John­son on the loss of his Mother.
• Recollec­tions in the Cathedral at Malines or “Mech­lin” in Belgium.
• `A Madame Warner
• To change the colour of a Rose.
• Whole­some Truth.
• Sir Sidney Smith.
• Lines by Maucroix.
• The Prisoner ofSt.Helena.
• Children’s Shoes.
• Brantome.
• Hopeless­ness.
• The Coffee Tree.
• A Portrait.
• A Key to the Thoughts.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Thought.
• Old China.
• The indul­gence of Providence.
• Les Assassins.
• Pausilippo.
• Gesner.
• Futurity.
• Death.
• Ambergris.
• Quinquina, or Peruvian Bark,
• Critique on David’s Picture of the Deluge.
• Transcribers’ Note
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
• Chapter 375

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