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298 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS.
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the character of the clergy from the y attacks made g upon them at one period by Cobbett and others , and wishing their accusers
cums endurance could tances have " ; seen of the the " p Archbishop rincel kno y w chari n t of he ties Canterbury " " calm of the courage Bishop , under of and try Durham ing patient cir- ;
and the " tables humble . In meals other " she had she herself ears often as the seen advocate upon parsonage of humble prayer and heart passages y communion app , thinking that when
we we receive wish to the do sacrament our part of " because the covenan God has t to commanded the very letter it , , we obtain that of right-doing and thinking which intercourse
with the Deit power y is sure to produce . " She also shews her adherence to the Established 5 Church by quoting the
exhorta " a tions lain of rule " in accordance Liturgy' on with the Scri latter ture subj . " ect , as affording p
It p was not likely that one who so zealously advocated position r social eligiou bondage s of freedom women . Writing should in Eng in lan t 1840 d off er , she de tt t ermined alluded better resis t t o t t ance tha lega t t o l
black slaves abroad ; adding , — " I can see no crime that women have committed which debars them from thts of citizenshiiriht the which
to them common by descent rig . " p , . e ., a gover property comes In lies anoth at leng er letter th to , addressed an article to David the Edinbur Power , h Esq Review ., she
repres rep enting that if when so few men are found who g can carry , out a lical conclusion from an arumentwe deduce onl
og g , y lost that from in the wan majority t of exercise of cases and the not reasoning that man powers in general are partl is y
in conc cap erning able of women logic ; since we oug certainl ht , also to some form feminine a similar instances judgment of
mental power are , to be found . y She thus summarily and sensibldisposes of the difficulties so often raisedless because
they are y felt to be really such , than because th , ey suffice to lace the reforms advocated in a ridiculous liht .
p g that " With the chivalrous regard to the irit rivalry does not which extend the to reviewer concern fears , I s am and sorry a man to will say money
cheat a woman if he sp canwithout the least regard to her sex . , To . keep them an dependant expedient , then that , by would way , fail of g exactl iving them in those an undeniable instances where claim its to failure protection would is
y ri be ghts most of calamitousl citizenship y so felt— loud -is . felt The , to talking the extent of the of making evil which the call would for result equal
from Doubtless women it ' s would intruding not on be men for the ' s business advantage is of a mere society begging that butchers the question should *
298 Caroline Frances Cornwallis.
298 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/10/
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