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82 MFE OF MARGARET 7T7IXEB OSSOM.
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XII.—LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLL
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I1ST EUROPE. We passed over in rapid rev...
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these eeptible houses , a much so that . higher their class work of was workers better bein done g anxious and less to supervision reside in
mon was required would , . be Morall an immense y and p saving hysicall to y speaking our nation 1 , this ; thoug plan , h if in com a -
mercantile , sense in some trades perhaps it would be simply imposshould sible at the present moral , sense and generall of our y country inconvenient once be to roused the masters to the . ri Yet ght
hope or wrong , that of throug any course h new of inventions action , I or have Improved a firm universal machinery faith and mind , a and livel the by y the influx of wisdom through the particular or
, result we sacrificed are may now to be compelled the reached acquisition to , that acknowle of our wealth d domestic ge , , or of that de life cent scarcity may cottage no exist homes longer , which for be
our working men and women . *
M . M .
82 Mfe Of Margaret 7t7ixeb Ossom.
82 MFE OF MARGARET 7 T 7 IXEB OSSOM .
Xii.—Life Of Margaret Fuller Ossoll
XII . —LIFE OF MARGARET FULLER OSSOLL PART II . _. - _^ _!» »
I1st Europe. We Passed Over In Rapid Rev...
I 1 _ST EUROPE . We passed over in rapid review last month the six and thirty years
during which Margaret Fuller gained for herself so wide a reputation , so enduring a love , in the hearts of her fellow country-men and
women . Seldom have we laid down the pen with so deep a sense of the inadequacy of any written sketch to convey even an
approximate idea of the character of a human being ; for never did any life consist less in salient pointsand more truly in daily details than
, the American portion of the one we have attempted to abridge . It is in her letters and journals , and in the many sided testimony
of her friends that the marvellous interest of her memoirs consists . They are full of the subtle spirit of life ; they photograph the
impression of the moment ; they record , with an earnestness which is sometimes whimsical to an European reader , her criticism of books
and of men . Failing * to find in her earlier career that complex diversity of subjects which the old world offers to its denizens , Margaret
bent her keen vision on the inhabitants of Boston and New York , may and * We the have possibility shall built be improved peculiarl of recovering y cottages obliged due for by laborers interest any communications or for artisan the outlay s , regard from . Many ing those the ladies cos who t , conversant with such details
can residing easily on become country so . — estates Ed . E are . W probabl . J- y , or
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/10/
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