This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...the sake of a bon mot, spoke unkindly of the absent. Patriotic in the extreme, she yet surmounted national prejudices, and freely acknowledged excellence wherever she found it. Faithful and devoted in her attachments, she yet lavished her warm regard on a numerous family and on many friends, disproving the silly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...the sake of a bon mot, spoke unkindly of the absent. Patriotic in the extreme, she yet surmounted national prejudices, and freely acknowledged excellence wherever she found it. Faithful and devoted in her attachments, she yet lavished her warm regard on a numerous family and on many friends, disproving the silly assertion, if disproof were needed, that they whose attachments are fewest love the most truly. Far from insensible to literary fame, she never allowed the pursuit of it to interfere with a duty. In fact, in all the relations of life, as daughter and sister, as wife and mother, as servant, mistress, and friend, she shines out a true, affectionate, and selfdenying woman. MART L. WARE, THE PHILANTHROPIST. Thy love Shall chant itself its own beatitudes After its own life-working. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips, shall make thee glad: A poor man, served by thea, shall make thee rich; A sick man, helped by thee, shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign The summer calm of golden charity.... The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead. The intuitive decision of a bright And thorough-edged intellect Alfred Tennyson. It is a common fallacy for people with good intentions, but of little energy or firmness of principle, to fancy while listening to the recital of great deeds, that they, too, should have acted nobly had their lot been cast in stirring and eventful times. Doubtless circumstances develope character, and are, as it were, a setting to the picture of a life; but, on the other hand, character controls circumstance, and it may be asserted that there is no position so unfavourable that...
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