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296 LADY HESTER STANHOPE.
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LIX.—LADY HESTEB, STANHOPE. . »
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Part II. FiiAttery is sometimes a low re...
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¦ » • Part Ii. We Resurne Our Analysis O...
resemblance had been preserved on each side , whether in Italy or In Francenotwithstanding divers intermarriages with other families
and three , centuries of separation . In taking leave of M . Trelat _, we may consider that he has
enforced two lessons on his readers , in whose results this most Interesting book may be summed up : firstly , the great care
which should be exerted not to form alliance in marriage or in business , or indeed in any kind of close association with natures
twisted towards any of these fatal peculiarities . Secondly , that we should watch ourselves in our predominant faults and
weaknesses , since nothing is more incontestable than that a moral fault be cherished until it reacts upon the organizationand
becomes may in the end a hopeless curse unto children ' s children , . Of whom amongst us can it be said that we possess a perfectly sane
mind in a perfectly healthy body ? M . Trelat laughed heartily when a lady generally supposed to be in possession of all her
faculties looked up in his face after attentively perusing "La Folie Lucide , " and observed with a slight shade of anxiety , _—> " et die ?
et ltd ?—et moi ?"
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296 Lady Hester Stanhope.
296 LADY HESTER STANHOPE .
Lix.—Lady Hesteb, Stanhope. . »
LIX . —LADY HESTEB , STANHOPE . . »
Part Ii. Fiiattery Is Sometimes A Low Re...
Part II . _FiiAttery is sometimes a low retail business in which men expect
to receive their money at interest ; and sometimes it slides into the keenest satire .
The foolish fulsome flatteries which were common in Lady Hester ' s days would in our times be considered as insults in
iclisguise . Society learns not to pander so much to this form of insinceritynow that it begins to recognise that the highest praise is
the plainest , and most straightforward truth , and that no lie can be profitable in the end . We cannot flatter those whom we really
esteem , for friendship gives us a _" rough courage / ' and reality need not be < e treated daintily . " Lady Hester ' s disposition was not one
of those nervous organizations which relish praise because it fortifies confidenceand which are not likely to overstep the bounds
, of good sense because their vivid self-knowledge gives them acute perceptions of the ridiculous . From her earliest childhood , on the
contrary , she was never content to be unnoticed ; and her straining after reputation was a fault which deepened and intensified with
time and , growing engendering 1 monstrous discontent and with unbecoming the ordinary in her avocations declining of years life , .
The childish self-conceit apparent in the diary of Lady Morgan , and
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/8/
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