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THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE. 38...
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your opp , , Hall Quaker ! Whatever , Unitarian thou , Philosop artorthodox her , Free or -thinker heterodox —send , send for for Robert the
life does manhood of the Robert novelist Itself Hall to develop contemp ; it in is , his late the story . life " And of the a effect naturall man of that y such as it does beautifull contemp good la to y - ,
tion on the characters he has introduced . Yet Robert HalPs was eminentl of doings y an unadventurous is chieflan unfolding life , and of his his memoir being , ; having indeed little in that to
say , y p one lain set sentence / ' Bulwer forth at quoted gives leng , us th " , as in I have it the were memoir not , tlie comp . essence lained The Life of and the of I Channing whole won't exist com is - -
portrayal another ence of of these beautiful uneventful character biograp and hies , a which tracing consist of its chiefly growth of and the
developm the ent reader , a jet . which Where are would calculated , bigotry to have be more a life- likel long y influence to learn
upon tolerance for another ' s creedand acknowledgment that the most than differing from opinions this exhibition may be equall of , what y compatible the " Unitarian with moral Saint excellence " as he ,
, has been calledbecame in the earnest carrying out of the princip How les of great a sect , not the effect unfrequentl of his y life looke in d this on respect with utter is significantl aversion y ?
was , shown Catholics in had the the fact bell that of on their the cathedral day of his tolled funeral , as a even mark the of Roman respect
for But his even memory when . notable exploits have been achieved , and we are the
emp amused loyed or or instructe the results d by attaine being d , made a deeper acquainted interest with is usuall means y felt
in thus ascertaining the " adventures , if possible " , how after they all re-acted derive on their the value doer ; from and may ,
their extraordinary effect upon does the 6 C not life . affect " The , us bare so much recital as of the occurrences narrative , however of very
common events , when their influence on those concerned can be fulltracedand , the inward workings of the minds of the actors
laid y bare to , us : and therefore is it that the creations of fiction often they ( thoug are h , but as was creations before ) remarked exercise a , stronger onl truth y just fascination absolute so long as is than we required forget real that his the
t : because in the latterwhere , power so ory limited of penetr : whereas ating thoug in the hts , former and assi this gning field motives is only is bounded necessaril by y
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The Influence Of The Individual Life. 38...
THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE . 381
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/21/
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