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CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS. 801
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In Making The Attempt Miss Cornwallis Co...
all claim but to six it . of Onl the y 22 a books very few which confidential composed friends the series knew vari that ed
both as were of their thoug subjects ht and researc and vast h expended as must hav upon e been them the , were amount , the of those
work of one author and that one a woman . Even written excepted b six her , four thoug wer h e a arranged portion of , edited them , was and contributed in most part by
two or three y friends , . The labour involved in the carrying out of this schemeand at the same time the pleasure it afforded
hermay be jud , ged from a letter to Mr . Power , dated 181-3 , wherein , -Miss Cornwallis says :
" Chemistry Now I will of tell which you what I did I have not know been about a great , In deal the before first p and lace wrote I got
the up " Introduction , to Practical Organic Chemistry ; * then came the talk small of a Lecture research on and Insanit this y is . nearl " * don * e and * then And I have this been required readin no g y ;
sheets for our of tract that on , at Greek odd times Philosop working hy , and at hav the e Greek got throug language h about , and two so I havtaken , oration of Demosthenes to put into literal English and '
e an ing back about again JjEsch into Greek lus ' s ; JPrometheus besides which Vinctus I have with been Cudworth reading ' s and Intellectual
theorizy Athenagoras System and Brucker for the ' s His hic tory theology of Philosop Now h if y ever and Diogenes one might Laertius be excused and
for not writing to one Orp ' s friends under . a press of business , I think I have that excuse to offer . In the midst of this I have been quite happy and "well , booksand
not a were moment beside , even me at and meal I ate -times with , was unemp left-hand loyed and ; my wrote with , paper my ri , ght , pens and never even thoug , ht whether I was my alone . I think that this to is the secret the
if mind of the bein . g idleness * happy * ~ * — goes th Nobod e h a aving mom y ever always ent is beyond idle some without what engrossing is some requisite subject inward for compunction occupy recruiting
full strength of is to nothing go on else agai in n , general and the than ill-temper the indomitable and discontent girdin that g of the conscience world is for lose missp a moment ent time and . Circumstances when I became , for many own mistress years , would I found not the allow retrospect me to my
of a life in which ; instant had had its duty and done , itso pleasant that I I resolved command to pursue happ every the iness sam under e plan as unpromising long as I lived circumstances , and , I thus . find In order that
wayward to can be quite and happy often , we wh must en we work deserve very for God most and praise not we for get man the ; the least latter ; but is
Godwho sees the heart , gives the reward in the exact proportion that is due and joy , ; and which just in He the who ratio made of us our has disinterestedness made the inseparable is that concomitants internal pea . ce of
right doing . Do plenty , and do it because it ' is right , not because it may be praised of men , and you will find yourself as hopeful as ever . "
Yet at this time it was hut a brief interval of health that abscess she was in enjoy the ing lungs , and broug , a few ht on month another s after severe , the illness breaking . Feeling of an
pai constan nyet tly th resi at gned death to would bear be her a welcome sufferings releas so e from long continual as the
Almi , ghty should please , it was only utter physical prostration
* No . IX . of the Small Boohs .
Caroline Frances Cornwallis. 801
CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS . 801
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 301, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/13/
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