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MISS CORNELIA KNIGHT- 155
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merce In all nations and ages towards the civilization of mankind ; alluded to the Phoenicians and Carthaginiansto the commercial
pursuits of the tributary provinces of Rome ; touche , d on Venice , England , and Hollandand lamented that France was yet by no means so
; ei commercial hty as before she his oug tim ht to eand be— lamented nay , the that archbishop le grand was Col near bert ,
gyears , mi merce nister " to for Louis it would XIV have ., erred been signall far b y etter in lay to ing have restraints suffered the upon trifling
comgreat country Inconveniences , advantages and being resulting which useful arise to from forei from , certain gn the nations communication commodities , than to renounce leaving of new dis the the
coveries and inventionsor from superior perfection in those already made . " industrious Deprecating citizens the , unhappy to seek fanaticism refuge in which the open had driven and liberal " so
extraordinary many arms of Englan disc d o and urse Holland by hopin / ' g the ever archbishop ything of from the conclu king _" the des towards present this
his governmen le t - , and from especiall the known y in good this province disposition , where his majesty ' s gracious peop intentions , were so well understood and seconded . " Be it
noted that the speaker was an Irishman , brother to Lord Dillon , but at the brou time ght of up the in revolution France . " " He In a behaved very , proper " says and Miss di K gnifie night d ,
manner" and died in England , In 1804 . It has taken eighty-four years for , France to adopt and realize States this in policy 1777 , addressed by an
ecclesiasticto the Assembly of the . must But greatl we are , y have forgetting enjoyed Miss this Kni gay ght and , who picturesque , in the bloom forei with gn of g life irlhood the . She im ,
posing speaks of personages of the the table whist of parties finding the provinc where lenty e , her of " while idlers mother I to sat p chat layed by with her side for which at the
be corner I sometimes said to be received first , from entrance my p mother into the very world proper ; and lectures excepting , . It two might or my
three of my fellow-countrywornen , there were no young unmarried women at these parties , as it Ital was not the custom the in France at beautiful . "
Nismes The Kni with ghts its now wonderful went to Roman y , buildings stopping by yet ' glowing way with a clear golden , tint under the sun of Provence emb , and arked its immense for Civita olive Vecchi gardens but
of had dust a y dreadful green . At voy Marseilles age , eing th tossed ey to and fro and compelled a , to put to land three timesbnotably at Toulonwhere they went to a
, , u Sfteen pique- ladies nique , " and given thirty by -five the first gentlemen families , who of Provence , affcer an . early They dinner were ,
lanced all the afternoon . Ah ! poor people ! not many years of . revelry had they to spend , dancing thus on the brink of a
_volcano li ' Arrived Spagna . . at They Rome had , Lady many Kni letters ght and of Cornelia introduction put up , parti in the the cularl Piazza y to
_Cardinal de Bernis , the French ambassador , who lived on Corso ,
Miss Cornelia Knight- 155
MISS _CORNELIA KNIGHT- 155
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/11/
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