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162 UVES FOR LEAVES.
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TiiisKE are, perhaps, few subjects conce...
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« Paet Ii. The Imperial Abbey Of Herford...
chose , a single life as freest from care , and best suited to tlie study ' and meditation she "was strongly Inclined to ; and tile chiefest
diversion she took next the air , was in some such plain and housewifely entertainment as knitting * , & c . She had a small territory , which
she governed so well that she showed herself fit for a greater . She would constantlyevery last day of the weeksit in judgment ,
and hear and determine , causes herselfwhere her , patience , justice , and mercy were admirable ; frequentl , y remitting her forfeitures
' where the party was poor , or otherwise meritorious . And , which "was excellentthough unusualshe would temper her discourse with
religion , and , strongly draw concerned , parties to submission and agreement , exercising not so much tlie rigour of her power as
the power of her persuasion . Her meekness and humility appeared to me extraordinary ; she never considered the qualitybut the
, merit of the people she entertained . Did she hear of a retired man hidden from the world and seeking after the knowledge of a
better , she was sure to set him down in the catalogue of her charity if he wanted it . I have casually seenI believefifty tokenssealed
and superscribed to the several poor objects , of , her bounty , , whose distances would not suffer them to know one another , though they
knew her , whom yet some of them had never seen . Thus , though she kept no sumptuous table in her own court , she spread the tables
of the poor in their solitary cells , breaking bread to _virtuoiis pilgrims according to their want and her ability . Abstemious in
herself , and in apparel void of all vain ornaments . "
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XXIX . —LIVES FOB LEAVES , #
Tiiiske Are, Perhaps, Few Subjects Conce...
_TiiisKE are , perhaps , few subjects concerning which a larger amount of misapprehension lias prevailed than that which relates
to tlie condition of females of the lower class in this metropolis . ' Every one who lias at all investigated tlie mattermust be aware
1 winners that those . Young are , with * or , old few , weak exceptions or strong , _wliat , m may arried be , or termed single bread , it is
not enough that they endeavor to economise pence ; they must earn them . A notion seems to prevail that in the various
manufactories employing * female labor , single females are to be found , at least , in a large majority . This is an error ; and as we advert
1 mind to one tlie section precise of fe this atures multitudinous of the ease class . , it will be well to bear in
1 state It would of things not 1 ) 0 resulting to our * purpose from the to dilate constant here dail on y the separation lamentable of
married persons from their families : the dull death-like sleep of
the drugged babe , the tiny , squalid forms which flit across our
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/18/
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