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226 !LADY HESTER STANHOPE.
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XLrII.-L.ADT HESTER STANHOPE. r
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— — Much has been said and written latel...
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• Chapter Iii. Poyebty Is, At All Times,...
to our share . Her subsequent trials and sorrows , Mrs . D said , she saw had not been sent so much in judgment as in mercy ; they
alone had brought her on her knees to seek God in prayer , and had aroused her from that careless indifference to her soul's
welfarewhich accompanies , alas ! unchecked prosperity . Experience , indeed , proves to many of us thatto wean us from undue attachment to the
, world's pleasures and ease , heavenly wisdom frequently uproots from our path the false props on which we are trusting . Placed in rough
and thorny ways , and brought personally into contact with realities , our hearts sooner become softened ; and in our trials , frequently
learning our utter incapacity to help ourselves , we are brought by grace to seek and find peace of minda reliance and a trust , fruits
, of a faith unknown to us before ; and which , although outwardly surrounded by the hard crust of adversity , we would not exchange
for our former wealth and indifference . L . N .
226 !Lady Hester Stanhope.
226 ! LADY HESTER STANHOPE .
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XLrII .-L . ADT HESTER STANHOPE . r
— — Much Has Been Said And Written Latel...
— — Much has been said and written lately about the supposed riddle of histoix by which masses of men sometimes grow better and
sometimes worse , or by which the powers at work in human society are supposed to make human efforts delusory . But without
countenancing that revival of Comte ' s philosophy of chance , which would reduce this life to a web woven out of the machinery of
circumstances , or turn statistics into a horoscope for foretelling the future , it may be admitted that the most important warnings for our
present conduct are to be gathered from the history of the past . What has been , will , in one sense , be likely to repeat itself to the
end of time . There is a strong family likeness in human nature _,, which should lead us to look into our own hearts when we read the
lives of others , and teach us to interpret them by our own experience . And whilst to the superficial reader it appears as if history
revolves merely in perpetual cycles , bringing round again the same heart-stirring crises of intensity and excitementand the same
, monotonous periods of mental and physical stagnation ; he who looks deeper may discern in its pages an infinite diversity as well
as similarity of character , and may admire the marvellous combinations of which nature is susceptible .
Thus the age of passionate sentiment , represented by Byron and Mooreis followed by another whose earnest motto is " Work ; " and
the natural , reaction from a century of science and material progress , is to be found in that tendency to mysticalpoetry
which protests against the misuse of formulas and technicalities _^ . We need not refer to the pages of Thackeray to trace the
metamorphosis which manners have undergone since the clays of George III ..
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/10/
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