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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...lectures from able men were of weekly occurrence; and, in addition, she soon secured the services of a teacher, to whom she went nightly for instruction. By means of the closest economy of time, she found much leisure for mental cultivation. She allowed herself no recreation; she curtailed her hours of sleep, ...
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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. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...lectures from able men were of weekly occurrence; and, in addition, she soon secured the services of a teacher, to whom she went nightly for instruction. By means of the closest economy of time, she found much leisure for mental cultivation. She allowed herself no recreation; she curtailed her hours of sleep, and applying herself assiduously, and learning almost intuitively, her progress was astonishingly rapid. Even the short half hour devoted to meals was abridged by her; and often, when some of her giddy companions returned home from a dance or a party, near day-dawning, they would find her absorbed in study, and bowed over her books. In this way she passed six months--laboring, during the day, to the very utmost of her ability, and studying, at night, with all the intensity of her soul--when, finding that the gains she had hoarded in a most miserly way were sufficient to carry her through two terms of a female seminary, at some little distance, of whose celebrity she had heard much during her factory life, she prepared to return home. The town of L had proved a fortunate place to her. She had made extraordinary progress in self-culture, under the circumstances; had lost much of the rusticity, awkwardness and shyness, of her manner; had won many friends, and had gained a full purse to assist her yet further in her praiseworthy exertions. Overjoyed as were her mother and brother to fold their dear one to their hearts, they were painfully startled by her changed appearance. Her large eyes looked out from beneath her massive brow, darker and larger than ever--her pale cheeks were more colorless, and very thin. The application of the previous six months had been too intense--the spirit had worn away "its garment of flesh." A few weeks...
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