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372 MADAME DE STAEL.
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was not aware tliat tlie power of making * the best of accumulated s ubj tores ect of with knowl another edge , of by classif a certain ying in parallel formation ism , and of thoug connec ht ting is one the
, o p f eculiari its genius ty o . f a The mind difference so clear in and men p is erh not aps so limi much ted in knowled the ran ge ge ,
as in the power of using knowledge . Madame de Stael prided herself on her brilliancy of conversation , and . here she probably
excelled . But we must remember that conception and expression do not always together . Some minds are like black glass
absorbing all the go rays of light , and able to give none out for the , benefit of othersThe Germans are the only people who pay
. honor to " passive genius , and respect the " dumb ones of heaven , " in ite of their stammerintonguesiting those wholike
Zacharias sp see awful visions g but remain ; p speechless y when , they would tell , them . ,
After electrifying poor Miss Burney by the dazzling flashes of her son wit , and 77 manner irritating of reading Talleyrande Madame almost de Stael to quitted rudeness Eng by land her ( " which smg * -
g , , tion "was scarcel when the y the thun place dering for her eloquence during of the Burke strong engendered Conservative a natural
reacapprehension , in all minds of the possible infection of foreign lawlessness and misrule , ) and hastened to the sanctuary of Coppet .
the polemical H Hall ere , durin of disputations Odin g the where miseries . Her the drawing bravest f exile , - warriors s room he diver has t were e been d her invited comp mind ared with to every
day to renew the , fight : these exciting controversies embracing all subj In ects these , from con literature versations and the metap mistress hysics of t to he politics soirees and manife history sted .
the growing river dis with like wooden to false shoes sentiment ' she said and affectation " when they . " would I trarnp force in
,, me to live in the clouds . Nothing is more pleasing in her character than its utter absence of unnatural falsetto . Even the
childish naivete of her vanity was amusing from its unconsciousness of self . This hatred of hypocrisy , she would say , she owed to her
father tensions . , It and was taug he ht , her she to declared believe , who that unmasked people saw all strai false ght Stael pre into
her heart . In accordance with his wise counsel , Madame de would acquired constr the hab ain it them of dealing to sincerit plainl y y . with She her was companions disgusted , as by if the she
display of unnatural sensibility , and would remark , " que tous les sentimens naturels parade of ont fine leur feeling pudeur . " " The Nor could heart she ' bear it has an been
_unnecessary well said"is in itself a centr . e of attraction pure . " , It will gather pelled round just itself , as similar the same atoms air , while acts differentl dissimilar y p on articles lungs will which be are
exhealth wrote During y one and the work diseased whole : an . of earnest the Reign but of useless Terror entreaty Madame for de Stael the life only of
372 Madame De Stael.
372 MADAME DE STAEL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1862, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081862/page/12/
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