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    CAROLINE FBANCES CORNWA^LIS, 239

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    in tip the an acquaintance course , of the who same knows year the a book arrival from in a the hed nei gehog ghbourhood ; " but

    and of a well clergyman informed with became many a daug sourc hters e of , great all amiable pleasure , sensible ; and in ,

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    her both it and appear had suffering of , which a , " good she , that she mentions deal , could as of she the obtain the expressed character German much of it poets reading eternit to , a and friend y with , Lord so , endless little u Bacon tim bulk e , did for in ,

    as her great consolers , adding—One would sthat the prospects I have before me would turn my

    " uppose would thoughts be altogether my chief companions to sacred subjects , and perhaps —that wh the folks Bible for may the and be scandalized books and of devotion that it

    is of not the so Scri , yet ptures I think are I can too give well good fixed reason in my memory y soul — heavenwards to hopes want refreshin and promises g by

    reading ' going Thou to knowest over book words , and my I which heart better , perhaps do like what to but turn is best half my , ' express than to my have meaning the do , like trouble . Words say , — of is

    seem so needless to Him who can read thought . But what I now pursuit to to read some the the great book poets good of and , m and an the — onl heathen to y see become how writers the evil instincts are by better his perverseness imp instructors lanted in ; than him and all all in tend this the

    professors something and express of of divinity passion the , th and e at end ever the with lived heathens myself . It , is in in the their view business philosop M of the hical of first our works to Christian an , al had yse

    writers our nature I think when have in sam fact erred it in was supposing only intended that our to reli correct . gion any was it . meant * * to I change do not

    think of Providence time , thrown perhaps away it in is this one mental of the best inquiry into of schooling the ends the and soul intentions for its

    future statefor ; I think if we can form any ways notion at all of its employment hereafterthis , must be one . Who that has only heard the outcry against the

    food * German for these , School lofty 7 coul contemp d think lations that ! it Their is among views the of _G- hum erman an poets nature that seem I find to

    liave led them through the same path I am trying to travel myself , — ' Through Nature up to Nature ' s God . ' "

    it than A was p a leasant hoped journey mi prospect to ght Ital have y , was a a temporary beneficial now opening residence effect to upon her in — which her nothing shattered country less

    Caroline Fbances Cornwa^Lis, 239

    _CAROLINE FBANCES _CORNWA _^ LIS _, 239

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1864, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061864/page/23/