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    CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS. 287

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    • sex illiberal acqu enough to / view a woman , 's , progress in such studies with . . jealousy A learned , and lad from as the it ill is -natured calledis remark so generally s of such I scouted wish to th be at exempted it is the . last * *

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    n _sponger ow even , that remedy fails me . " Thus crushed app in body and life min could d , it is no no t t wonderful much longer that she t became ractedand convinced even begs that her er

    friend not to try to destroy so pro pleasant an , illusion , which at 3 east " ' made -day rubs pass more lightly ; " while ascheme

    for the endowmen every t of a school in the parish , for which . she induced her father t to appropriate a tion of her future

    aonce por bene inheri fit tance from , and her which death she made intended her should t more derive read s to till welcome greater .

    the t of that event , . Her motherwith y a view to contribute prospec something towards the same obj , ect , d for

    , prepare " publica Observations tion a work Critical of her Exp own lanatory , in four and volumes Practical , entit on led , the

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    exert herselftook ; an interest in assis , ting in this work . She also asks Mrs , . M . if her husband has not some volumes of the

    Fathersas she wishes to amuse herself with a look at them , for if in her La , to tin , launch as if in into Gree at k , present they would . Interested be too as deep she was ter in "

    classical studiesit is curious to find her expressing absolute her c _" ondemns detes ginat tation inion ed them i s " th of on , eolog account mathematics ical poin pre of " ts jud their , being ic thoug es tendency , as a h t s this t hi to s admi p make seems erio ts d scep t l to ha itt t tics le have she i , "

    accordance op with those many of her maturer years . In 1820 we find her wishing for Ivanhoeas sterner studies

    were found , for her head , but the very _, next week she is enquiring estlhead after the Qiiintilian more pain , with the the more apology desire that for , — fresh " Mine books is a

    ress , , she and would fresh studies permit . " her It faculties was not , to however exert , themselves on every of subject , for some that

    time which after she , thoug when ht mentioning had some bearing a Hebrew on form the doctrine expression of the ,

    which faith Trinity by I , she puzzling avoid alludes thinking my to brains the in latter . " general as , " lest this mysterious I should weaken subject my on

    Caroline Frances Cornwallis. 287

    CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS . 287

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/21/