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MARIA BOCOI £A MOINETTE. 231
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renounced simple fact his that creed he was his of calling forei gn and extraction his country , and was having necessaril besides y
alienated from them , , that country , being Italy ; but , there is cause to believe that he was of distinguished birth . The foreign members
of tlie richly-endowed monasteries of Switzerland were generally cadets of noble familieswhen the Pays-de-Vaud belonged to Savoy ,
from which adjacent king , dom it was wrested hy the Bernese at the Reformation , and they usually became the head of the community ,
both "by reason of their social position and superior attainments . With many natural endowments , and an education rare in her
generation , Maria Bocci might have gone forth from her father's home , when he , her sole guide and friend , left her at his death an
isolated being unshackled even by collateral connections , into the polished cities of GenevaBasleParisand Lausanne , and have there
obtained an ample independenc , , e , whilst , the excellencies of her private character would have secured for her the respect of the
enli But ghtened such was society not her of which desire . she Touched thus became by the ignorance an integral and portion misery .
around her , she determined to devote her time and her talents to the education of the people with whom she dwelt . Her future
The sphere hope of action that spurs was not on to to lie dili amongst gence in the the wealth pursuit y of and riches refined or .
honors , the still higher emulation felt in some degree by the best and noblest of our speciesto win the well-earned meed of literary
renown , mingled not with , her aspirations , when , stepping over the threshold of her peaceful homeshe entered on a scene of painful
, exertion and continual self-denial . She selected a thorny and inglorious pathbut it was hallowed by the dignity attached to her
motives and , the purity of her life . In the enumeration of the graces of the Christian character ,
Saint Paul specifies amid the divers giffcs bestowed on different be teaching converts represented - , ; all and alike in , Hol her tending y distinguishing Writ , to when promote a virtuous feature the , g woman lory and not of the is God onl int one , ended that most to of
but strong others ly insisted . Those upon who , is promote , that her the advancement virtues blessed of education y herself may , indeed good seed , be ranked Results as are pioneers not in clearing the power the of ground man ; tares for the may sower ming of le
. with the wheat even more abundantly on account of the luxuriance of the soilbut it mustneverthelessbe cultivated ere it can bring
forth an hundred , -fold . , Other husbandmen , must then labor to eradicate the weeds , that the precious grain may not be stifled or
impeded in its growth . " That This if one in truth faith at least seed we know ,
For We blessings may with on hope good our lo work ok up we of above love sow . , "
And it is surely no slight honor to woman , that from all time she
Maria Bocoi £A Moinette. 231
MARIA BOCOI _£ A MOINETTE . 231
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/15/
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