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    CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS. 805

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    In Making The Attempt Miss Cornwallis Co...

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    he amon oke g the and citizens p drawi ng p At hens , to , awakening wisdom willing reflec l t y by making all y to w them hom

    their sp own , teachers . Leading- the conversation on by apparently asking the simp informa lest and tion mos when t nat reall ural questions as well , aware he seem of wha to be t must only

    co la me er nex reckon t , and in nex how t , and nex moves t ag will ain , finish as the the skilful chess when - his py advershas g made many a sinle false onetill at last game the

    interlocutor finds ary himself asserting g - the very contrary , of what he had t he t firs conc t advanced lusion h , and has is convinced tedl ou arrived t of his at ow n mon be nou th that ht

    else but truth . The chief unexpec design y of the work , , however g , to clear the character of Asasia from the calumnies which for

    centuries have obscured its p lofty beauty , and tainted it with clear most l undeserved and convin aspersions cinglare _; the and nobl ere groundless y was the task asser fulfilled tions of ,

    the care y less disproved , and y the false satires exposed of those who made it their business to make all that thknew of good or

    great appear merely ridiculous ; and it is ey indubitably shewn that there was no evidenceworthof the nameof this celebrated

    woman having ever prostit , uted y her great endo , wments to any she immoral was use held , while in the on very the contrary highest , estimatio there is much n by to those show whose that

    esteem would assuredly never have been given , to anything the vicious toph gre anes at or ' degraded coarse martyr ridicule of . heathendom It is , but true she that , shared and she t was o this the in common butt ligned of Aris with with - _, ,

    profess Socrates to oug think ht to it be glory looked to " on bear onl the y as reproach an hono of ur Christ by those . " who called for of two of the Small

    By 1850 , second editions were was Books onl , viz in ., the t Miss Christian C . ' s work Sects and of the the " 19 Brief th . Century View of , " Greek which

    Philosop y hy , par from the age of So , crates to that of Christ , " which it was did all without her own . The sacrifice latter of mi clearn ght ' wel ess l to be brevity in demand the , essence giving as of

    a vast , amount any of reading within the concentrated , form of about two hundred small pages . Confined to the house again for

    found months companions during this in year " the by another Fathers , s " evere whom attack she of was illness stud , ying she

    in " On order the to State prepare of Man for the . subsequent next and to last the work Promul of the gation series of , from Athanasius

    Christianity . " "While extracting largely , "to _cjuite shew , " bears as she me says out , " in how orthodox view of what I am the , " she Christian asserts system , He

    is ; " but she adds that the my works she has yet to consult are so VOL . XIII . Y

    Caroline Frances Cornwallis. 805

    CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS . 805

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 305, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/17/