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380 THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE...
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LX—THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL.
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..... . .. M. "When Man, A Frail And Hel...
Love Who would thee most not trul thy devotion honour to thee repay alway , ? y
As To wantonl gratitude y , to to wound justice , th , oh y heart ! who , or could bring "be shame so dead upon thy head ?
God grant that man this gracious gift may not receive in vain ,
But make with her thro' mutual love their lives as one , tho' twain , And thus the race of Adam , Eden ' s peace and joy regain !
Fbieni > Richard .
380 The Influence Of The Individual Life...
380 THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE .
Lx—The Influence Of The Individual.
LX—THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL . LIFE .
« Op All Tlie Various Kinds Of Books Tha...
« Op all tlie various kinds of books that lave ever been written ,
none , probably , have exercised more influence upon mankind than s produce B timulating iographies a stronger . accessories Fiction impression , p with erhaps , its a at yet hig first hl stronger y ; wroug the ; Dram h but t instances a the , wi faioivled th all , may i ge ts
of their unreality , however excitement may temporarily banish the feel exh i ibitions ng of it , of goes ideal far to character counteract . any Even permanent the child effect 's of from ten-heard such and the look of
which inquiry usuall , " But y f Is ollo it w reall s when y true this ? " assurance cannot b disappointment e given , shows
how natural is the instinct which makes actuality an element of impressiveness Nor is it onl . on account of the outward incidents of his career y
that the record of an individual may claim the attention of his fellows ; for , apart from anything of f this kind i , it ma t y possess no t less
is interest indeed , m a erel tacit y as acknowled a revelat gment ion ohis of incident nner na b eing something and here almost extraneousin the common form _Tby which we speak of a
almost person ' s identif life and itself , adventures with other . Biograp branches hy of literature in some and ins closel tances y
trench on the y departments of history , travels , or other , subjects , but in its purest and most essential formrt has to do rather with
, the life than with the adventures , or discoveries , or extraordinary circumstantial surroundings of the liver ; and when these form
necessarily a great part of the record , it is admitted that the hi connexion ghest aim with , never the to internal be lost development sight of , should in the still rel be ation to show either their of
cause or effect . But when the former are almost entirely absent , and the latter alone is brought prominently forwardbiographies are
often as deeply interesting and even more widel , y influential , because appealing to more general sympathies than any records of
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/20/
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