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302 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS.
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In Making The Attempt Miss Cornwallis Co...
that could cause her to suspend her task ; for , impelled by the e one arth desire was of bein lon g- as as usefu soon l as possible as ever while she was her sufficientl stay upon
revived to sit pro up g propped , with pillows in an easy chair , her y writing * was resumed . While she felt utterly unable to be
l t roubled tter was wi too th much house f h ol d cares hiloso , and h the and commones science roved t busi ness a refreshing recreationYet , p full p alive y to the evil p of being y "
cut off from intercours . e with , the living y - and to the narrowing influence of mere study , she begs the correspondent to whom
rep at l the y to period her with she , was news wri of ting whatever * criticisms mig on ht be the occurring ancients , in to
ordinary daily life . But the sympathy and assistance in her personall arduous pursu with its friend which s and me ac t uain with tances , even w when as oft able en far to mi less x
than mig ht be supposed . It woul q d have som , ewhat lightened the task of authorshihad she found everone willito
afford information p themiht have been y able to be ng stow and to discuss with her the y subjects g in which she was most ,
her interes at disadvantag ted ; but it was e as compared here that petty with a jealousies man ; thoug of her h the sex quie put t
humour of the following shows that this , sometimes at least , rather amused than annoyed her :
informed " Every than man a , you woman know unless , thinks he has he has science a prescriptive h himself right to to see be that better the said woman is up with him , and therefore must enoug know something . Faraday
allows me to question his notions , , and explains very quietly , pleased to hear grunt the views one of day others when upon I venture them d ; to but say Dr a . D word . met on me the with earl an y church indescribable . But
the fact is , I know less than Faraday , more than Dr . D ., and there ' s the rub . " During 1845 The State , Miss of Cornwallis the World was before engaged the in preparing of Christ the
but tract when on " leteshe felt so much doubt Corning as to whether , it " miht do more comp harm , than goodby offending people ' s
prejudices g that the publication was , delayed until 1848 . In the course , of study undertaken to qualify herself for writing- this
little divine book the , ori she gin had of the arrived Old Testam at the ent conclusion , there was , that no however ground for supposing that the books of which it is composed were
afterwards unintentional supernaturall alteration y any preserved more from than accidental the Gospels damage which or
scribers undeniab & ly c hav and e come thoug down h , in this to us fact with she all saw the nothing faults to of shake
tranher own , faith , in God ' s covenant with manshe feared that others might take offence at seeing it stated . , Her tenderness
mi made ht be her and unwilling the * to earnestness shock feeling of her , h desire owever to mistaken disseminate it g , very
302 Caroline Frances Cornwallis.
302 CAROLINE FRANCES CORNWALLIS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 302, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/14/
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