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THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE. 38...
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how the privat general life lias of become those who the have desire attained to know any as degree much , as of possible celebrity of !
biograp There has her e been is one but of one the Boswell rarest , forms and ev of en literary a modera excellence tely _good . the of noted
Yethowever ill-toldwith what avidity are Ana individuals , sought after , and is perused mostl ; then and the when lit proffers tle can its be
aid ent discovered , ertained how readil , and ! The y invention are merest the , most as temporary apocryp y notoriety hal stories even case welcomed , of the most and
, repulsive this desire kind and , as thoug in the h the case French of great system criminals of introducing , suffices to arouse a full
- does account not of quite ; his past suit career our into English the evidence notions concerning of legal justice a prisoner , yet , it is not the
however such information may be officially excluded , . jud less gment eagerl for y soug or against ht for , grounded by the work in great ! beyond measure ometimes the court upon , it an ; d for a . -
however the desire for such details may sdegenerateless into the ex capable mere ercise idle of of arriving a he curiosit althy at y instinct , a within true , knowled without due ge limits which of our we it fellow is should undoubtedl -creatures both be y
and derive less benefit from their influence either as examples or warnings There . is in most minds such an amount of involuntary
imitativeness around them as necessaril a constant y causes action a of tendency each , upon to others assimilate , and to of what others is
up and on which each , whi causes , ch it the seems mere impossible manifestation for any of disposition one wholly , to even escape in a ; .
have course often of action great effect offering . Nor nothing is it very by any striking means or the remarkable mind that , to is the
¦ greatest greatest ¦ working result or strongest Othellos in this mutual in for other evil conflict respects and working ; for , that we but see produces continuall too successfull always y Iagos y ; -
pro while duced , on upon in the like other manner hand feeble , when , we , the happ made old ily fable often the of see the a lion of contr calling and ary mouse effect into t
action seenis the doin realized a g mi of ght great , far and bey deeds the ond is their essential are own . to An the illustratio exertion means n of of gr how eat influ little - childrenwhose
powers ence , is of shown action in are the necessaril large amount y so limited exercised , yet b who y , by the , mere
manifestation of purity , though it is in them rather an absence of evil than a presence of positive excellence , will often hardened operate guilt as a
rebuke Not more to beautifull sin . and an than effectual truthfull restraint does even Moore upon , in his " Paradise . beholding and the Peri the , " innocent depict y the child effect pouring produced y forth on its the simp man le prayer of crime ; and by
among our own lower classes many a once vicious parent lessons reclaimed in the
by witnessing the working out of Sunday-school
The Influence Of The Individual Life. 38...
_THE INFLUENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE . 383
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/23/
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