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WOMEN IN ITALY. 35 •i
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III.—WOMEN IJST ITALY. *af
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In literature , slie may be said almost to have struck out for herself a new courseand shewn the possibility of making instruction at once
si clear gned and for amusing ' , Children 1 to the of young Older ; Growth and in , those of uniting works which vivid were interest
dewith beautiful purity . and " Her a woman extraordinary of genius , merit consis , " ts says in her Sir James having Mackintosh selected a class , " of virtues moralis far t , of fiction than othersand which had
more difficult to treat as the subjects , the therefore "O great ther been art arts is and left the sciences by art former of , living " observes _writers , and , to Jeffrey the her chief . " , " have science their , the use science , no doubt of b , eing true but
p happy hilosop . h Miss y , and Ed has gewor ecli th psed is the the fame great of modern all her mistress predecessors in the . " school of She lived long enough to see many followers in that line of
juvenile literature , of which she was , if not the discoverer , at least above the pioneer the reach . She of is earthl now beyond praise the but reach whether of we earthl consider y censure her ,
character in a moral or intelle y ctual , point of view , we may well allow that she deserved the famewhich the grateful voices of
, thousands whom she has amused and instructed , have ascribed to the name of Maria Edgeworth .
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Women In Italy. 35 •I
WOMEN IN ITALY . 35 i
Iii.—Women Ijst Italy. *Af
III . —WOMEN _IJST ITALY . _* af
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- A and very that striking of land difference —not more exists do between the two the countries social differ state of in their Italy Eng
vines ing outward strong the aspect ly maize as s , than do of , the they Ital bri do ght with in blue their the summer inward lowering existences sides clouds , the . olives Contrast and , less the
luxuriant , vegetation of our y colder , clime , far greater is the contrast that exists in all that concerns the domestic life of the two nations .
ing influences From the the characters earliest supremel period and y different shap of ing life in , the to their destinies the natures last moment of are the at inhabitant work of existence , mould s of - ,
Italy and England , . In the different aspect presented by these two countries at the present day—Englandrichpowerfuland
triumph-, , , ant , and Italy , poor , weak , enslaved , oppressed—in the huge distinction that thus prevailsit needs no penetration to discover which
class of influences , presiding , severally over the formation of national character in either country , is the best .
degree The p ublic reflex life of a natio private n will life be always With fo purit und to be morals , in a , great will
be found , associated national independence , or power , or wealth ; with corruption of moralswill be found national slaveryweakness ,
poverty . If we would , trace the origin of national , calamity , of .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/35/
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