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OPEN COUNCIL. 429
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Madam, It Has My Been Experience Suffici...
the breath existence is poisonous of this evil , the is hurtful touch infectious to the human , the race examp . le Yet pernicious it is apparentl . The y
apparent terms very of so trivial which triviality b a y nature th lies eir g , its lossing that power its ov . weakness er The the evil hideousness to makes which it I of desp allude crime ised , , is and ; that and the of in follies using this
• alluring of describing mankind , to the vice , lower unwary in terms virtu steps e rather , of and youth softened make . which It the , and is said downward th ancestors , erefore What more harm path adapted can to accustomed vice arise to more from the ?
Much refined h ears arm of we moderns trul , than state those . We to have our only to look were around us in the worldand we , shall may at once y see the magnitude of the evil this false delicacy
occasions which , would . It otherwise misleads have the innocent been avoided into the with commi horror ssion . It of affords follies shelter and sins to , sin it is
the those and world who . are account This onl hurtful y of heedless the habit insincere of continuin is indul refinement ged g in and of encourage so long of as the d m female ore unreproved particularl ¦ sex . If by it y
"by , on , many follies were not agreeable prettyfashionable to women to hear irited their sins weaknesses described the as follies custom , and of thei mis r -
callin never g - have as actions arisen and , . ideas Cowardice would , is or have its sp fallen mother into and disuse cautious — , nay , sin rather its , congenial it would
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therefore for , human often nature more is not feared always than merciful the act , and which the calls judgment it forth . of Madame mankind de is Certainl
cannot Stael h eminence remark go in s utter th in at virtue women contradiction and must talent submit to without such to op public braving inion , but opinion the women . inion can of rise the y they best to a
- hig part and and in actions of particular society which . the I am if word called sure " fast many by , " their arose , of the just from terms names the now wish would in to vogue op expose indulge amongst those in habits who us ,
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women for old , faces it is . " within I would reach point of out their , this correction one instance they especiall must y come to the in notice contact of
with it ; and it is one which undoubtedly tends to , the deterioration of female virtue . , Let women cease to apply the term " fast" to follies and checked vices , and and
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unp uswhen leasing it op to is offend in our , unkind powerbe to silent publish rather our nei than ghbour encourage ' s faults sin ; then by our let
ambiguous something , in terms that . Now word who most , would unattractive like , to be to called the slow young ? in . Slow it Sarcasm — Fast there and is '
ridicule congenial the contrary often to , young accompany implies and sp merry irit it , ; energy there minds seems , courage . A a woman hidden ; in fact of reproach proper , somethin spirit g . , th of " at untiring sociable is most , " on
energy , of unflinching rectitude , of intrepid courage , of a cheerful , dispositi _sxhibited on in , would times probabl of mirth y be and called happiness fast , . if The these world traits forms of character its opinion were thwhen in
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hus _io the be outer applied world to persons . But deserving to return praise to pur , and subject we . perh The aps sometimes " " app may ly
Open Council. 429
OPEN COUNCIL . 429
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/69/
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