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LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI, 19
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of the a ages certain of eternity fixed development might develop , and , hut having could 1 a profound not exhaust personal . I unit know y , which not if
appeared she "would in have her stated constant her faith endeavor in these to see terms and , hut understand some such the conviction germinal principle , the special characteristic , of every person whom she human deemed
ture worth in y of its knowing universal at laws all . , Therefore and become , "while great some philosop persons hers stud , moralists y , and namotives teachers and of the feelings race , — ~ b while which others masses stud are y swayed mankind heeome in action eminent , and , politicians seeing the
y , , individual stud sagacious y character leaders souls , . and , and * acquire eminent * * the * in ¦ all power political of exerting affairs , — profoundest a few , like interest Margaret on , Cl
I have referred to the wide range of Margaret ' s friendships . Even at this period different this from variety each was other very and apparent whose , onl She affinity was the consisted centre in of their a group all
being very polarised by the strong , attraction of her y mind , —all drawn toward sick herself or . studious Some of " her Some friends were were children young of , the gay world , and others beautiful pale ; som scholars e old . ,
Some , were witty . , others slightly dull . But all , in order , to be Margaret ' s better friends . , must And how be capable did she of lorif _seeking life something to all ! all , — that capable was of tame aspiring and common for the gy
things vanishing hy her away rap in id the fancy picturesque , her brilliant light wit thrown , her sharp over ins the ight most , her familiar creative imag ious ination rhetoric , by which the inexhaustible found words resources and images of her always knowled apt ge and , and always the
rea eop dy . Even then she disi _3 layed almost the same marvellous gift of conversation which afterwards dazzled all who knew her , —with more perhaps
notes who of freedom know and letters , Margaret since contain she flo onl ated more y by on of her the her published flood mind of but our writings it warm was know onl symp in athies her conversation least . Those ; her ; y
that she was perfectly free and at home . " Attracted by the wild bugle-call of Thomas Carlyle , she
commenced in 1832 the study of German , and in three months from the commencement of this study we find her _reading with ease the
masterpieces of that literature . Within the year she had read Goethe ' s * Faust' ' Tasso , ' ' Iphigenia _, ' ' Hermann and Dorothea , '
, 6 'El Prince ective Zerbino Affinities , ' and , ' and other ' Memoirs works ; Korn Tieck er _, ' s Novali ' William s _, and Lovel some , - '
thing of Richter ; all Schiller ' s principal dramas and his lyric poetry . Not long after she commenced the study of architecture ,
and we hear her crying out for more engravings of Vitruvius , Magna Grsecia , the Ionian Antiquities , etc . To all this she added
in 1834 the charge of four pupils , to whom she gave , for five days in the week , lessons in three languages , in history and geography _.
About this time her mother and her grandmother , who lived with the familyboth fell ill , and as Margaret was the only grown up
duties daught f ell at , home her care , the et whole thou of h the thus domestic taxedhe arrangements r studies and - , y , g , , compre
hended the history and geography of modern Europe , beginning the former in the fourteenth , century ; the elements of architecture ; the
works of Alfieri , with his opinions on them ; the historical aad critical works of Goethe and Schiller ; and the outlines of American
history .
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Life Of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 19
LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI _, 19
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1859, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091859/page/19/
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