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300 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS*
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In Making The Attempt Miss Cornwallis Co...
and lias given offensive her of expressions talent , to a and good then purpose the worl without d will calling get civilized forth coarse the faster jests
because it will have the use , of all the intellect which its Creator has turned , loose in it . The Chinese women are to have their feet released , by a late
their imperi minds al decree released , and from I hop the e the degradati time will on th come ey are when now our subjected women to will . " have The second of these tractsan E u On the Connexioh
between Physiology and Mental , Philosop ssay hy" when published , after havinbeen first read as a lecture at the Royal Institution
by the Hev g . John Barlow , drew forth , amongst other favourable criticisms , a very flattering notice from the British and _Foi _^ eign
abs will Medical trac bes t Review t unders jec , t , concl t b y uding perusing our wi idea th the this of one panegyric a good from lec which : — ture u Our we upon readers have an
quoted ; " upon which Miss Cornwallis remarked , — Womcwi " I long that to knock did all all this the ! big *• -wi ¦* gs A together woman t > that y and laug bye hed , and at say you , 'It all was , and a despised praise ! Iflike Caligula'wishI could put all mankind into
oneand your leave you to say , that in its s ears when , I am gone quietly to my self individual grave , , I , like I think C to . F creep . it C , would th in at a I enj corner be oy glorious my and triump . be It quiet h is ; for as ;• but as a woman to regards raise , and my my own whole not proper as sex the ,
and with it the world , is an object worth fagging for . Heart and hand to the work !" womanl What true indifference woman ' to s personal heart will celebrity not respond this arden to t t hi l trul ing y
that wha y tever fame might attend on what , had done ong should redound to the honour of her sex rather than of herself ?
meet trial These , i w t ould bein two g f tracts airl thoug sho were ht w tha w first t the ther published rece th pt ion was as a th a sort w sufficien hich of preli the t y clas m inary g s ht of
readers for such w y orks to make it worth while to issue more of a raise similar accorded kind . to The them approbation by reviewers of the emboldened public and Miss the 0 . hi and gh
a p few friendswho shared her ideas and desiresto embody themselves into , a little societyeach ing a small ,
subscrition towards the expenses of publishing , pay ; the design being p to which
is should sue , at " s intervals pread more of sane about vie six ws on month Science s , a set f al of l sor tracts ts , whether
among Theolog peop ical , l P olit in i general cal , or Natural ; and to , " th dispel an were a common usually prevalent prejudice
by showing that Science and Eeligion can never be really in _antag Wellwishers onism . to The Knowledge series were " and announced were as the Edited speculations by some
-, many wide as to clear who views the u won men such " cou general ld be , whose admiration sound , while judgm the ent credit , and
to of be authorshi feared _j even _} was appropriated occasionally b g y iven those to who , and had sometim no shadow es it of is
300 Caroline Frances Cornwallis*
300 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/12/
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