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138 OPEN COUNCIL.
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xxii.—open couisrciL. _ ^ «»l [[As these pages are intended for general discussion, tlie Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed.]]
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To the JEditoir of the English Woman 1 s...
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The Mrs Duchess . Austin. Of With Orlean...
Paris ence What , ' and bir recolle thday a constant ction . This ! desire day hear to nineteen improve t seemed years . too * ago small * God * to * bestowed contain " We are him so celebrating much upon joy me ; .
have nor will full a the confidence joy I then that My felt I be shall ever be troubled able to by this in m most last belove moments d child that . he I say y
_^ never disappointed my expectations in any respect . " " The news of tlie attempted assassination of Louis Napoleon on
tlie 14 th of January , filled her with horror . and " one This is attempt oppressed , " she with wrote shame from for Richmond human , nature " is tlie , "when most that one odious is sees not to the of what all end ;
purposes the discoveries of science are turned . Certainl ¦ * y * * * I have a horror that lexi I o desire f all what the to will profits see befall to of the crime French present . society One government cannot after this think . a without conflict appears melanchol in y -
p evi erp table ty and it will be a fearful one . The part we ; have to play is very simple and , very humble ; either we have only to pray to Grod , and to exhort our
sons ; we shall not fail in . " To this loving , genial soul , a want of unity in . religious faith with _,
those who were dearest to her , was a great deprivation . perfec convic " She t tions agreement joine . d * with * of her She opinion sons was , in far when everything too she hig knew h-minded that that did and differences not _xipri conflict ght oug with to ht to her exist a own t a .
Ca She tholic had faith promise ; she d had to bring done so up ; her but sons she herself in profound remained attachment a Protestant to . " the duce Long unusual ailing anxiety and feeble in those in health about , no her symptoms took place calculated until within to _* pro a -
s few eized days with of her suffocations decease . and On faintings Monday , , May and on 17 th the , 1858 evening , she of was the tenement
with 18 th , such this perfect gentle distortion yet tranquillity heroic of the sp , irit that features passed the women from the watching its sli earthl htest her y change saw not in
her " the countenance slightest . The onldifference was , nor that her g face was of a y deadlier white "
. We . have quoted largely from this loving record of a loving and beloved princessThis true history of a true woman , excels in
. pathos and sublimity ,, and shows us , as the poet says . *—
" Earth ' s noblest thing , —a woman perfected ! "
138 Open Council.
138 OPEN COUNCIL .
Xxii.—Open Couisrcil. _ ^ «»L [[As These Pages Are Intended For General Discussion, Tlie Editors Do Not Hold Themselves Responsible For The Opinions Expressed.]]
xxii . —open _couisrciL . _ _« _^ » l tlie Editors do not hold [[ As these page themselves s are intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions expressed , . ]]
To The Jeditoir Of The English Woman 1 S...
To the JEditoir of the English Woman s Journal . Madam ,
to they those qualif Among leave seem y them the school especiall various for , and y any useful before charitable respectable which they institutions have afford service either them . To for training help my the and thinking relief or p instruction hysical of , poor far strength beyond girls after ,
even the early mental instruction now so freely offered them in childhood ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/66/
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