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236 MARIA BQCCI'IiA MOINETTE.
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ladies' maids and tinder-governesses , and all were incited to diligence and good conduct by her precepts and example . The mere
possestowards sion of the all now that common is comprised acquirement in the than of mi the reading ghty irrefLective word seems educa a trifling tion , but step ine it
is the firstand embraces far more may imag . , The innate habit reluctance of _thmig to ht labor , the of subjugation the intellect of the have will alread , the y mastery told on over the
in mind the for social good scale ; and almost a desire invariabl for further follow , knowled its attainment ge , a . wish It to would rise y
have vast been amount scarcel of y influence , possible over for such all within a precep her tress orbit to . fail The of obtaining head and
a the heart must have been alike obtuse and indurated that _coiild remain indifferent to her counsels , unmoved by her appearance . The into the ervices
reading of the Swiss and exposition Protestant of Church the Bible , and enter her very largel position y as s she sat ad
surrounded by her little assembly of auditors , instructing , - more monishing vividl , an to d their encoura recollection ging , must ; Abraham have broug sitting ht Scri at the ptural tent history door in y
the heat of the day , visited by angels , pleading for the wicked Israel cities ; the Deborah beneath Priscilla the statel who y received palm-trees the young of the A East pollos , jud under ging
her roof ; , that generous the way of God , might be more perfectly expounded to of him the : Saviour and must when , above He all abode , have with realised man to . them The the transfi sacred gurati presence on on
with a high Moses mountain and , where Elias , clad the in tender former title glory He , He took appeared on earth talking of ;
herds troubled " Shepherd demanding , " so and familiar hourl stilling y to care b their His ; walkin senses mihty , g surrounde on power the the d waves b tempest y flocks of th and the at
sea , y g was disci read les y the to sermon * engulp on h the the mount ship which so full of contained direct instruction His terrified and
beautiful p ; allegory ; and the not less strikin , g parables delivered by the with force to heart
sea-side—must have come home many a young , faithfull and deepened , followed the impression she sat of her words mountain . Like s and the by Mast the er borders she so among
of lakes y , with no , canopy but that of heaven to shelter her . The wild flowers of Switzerland would favor the scenic illusion ; they of the st
cover the earth with beauty , they gem the summits steepe rocks Alps , cluster and embroider around the the most dells stony and meads crags . , creep The rich into rub the y clefts buds of of
purp tinge the Al le , pa over gentian Rosa the ( ice the disp rhododendron of lay the tints glacier rivalling of ; the the in blue Alps sp ) periwinkle lendour throw of their , and hue warm dark the
yellow cyclamens sapphire and and , rose white the geraniums am crocuses ethyst , . sho wild Thousands ot up scabious between , and , and tufts tens fragrant of of pearl thousands y violets -leaved , of ; silver
whilst streamlet everywhere , clashing , ' fountain on hill , or or dale az , ure on lake rock , or the val forge e , by t-me-not
236 Maria Bqcci'iia Moinette.
236 MARIA _BQCCI ' _IiA MOINETTE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/20/
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