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176 „ A LONELY CHILDHOOD,
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Wan Causes T Of Of Unkindne Sympathy Ss ...
check upon the tendency of individuality to degenerate into peculiarity , but that without it there is little or no field for the :
exercise of the social and many , of the relative virtues , which must therefore remain dormant in the absence of anything to call them forthit is wonderful that the importance of children ' s *
, found society to to be children . The baneful should be effects so overlooked of even such as partial it is sometime segrega- _*
tion as takes place when one family , however perfect the nearl fellowshi so p from of its communication members one with with any the beyond other , its is own cut off circle , or
is sadl y y , shewn in the mournful history of Charlotte Bronte _* , All in all as the sisters were to each other in her home , they
could not always be together , 'and when severed they seemed therefore to have lost all . Deprived of the one full fountain _^ their souls seemed to dry for lack of moisturefor they had
up , never drops learnt from many the art stream , so necessary s a draug to ht happ which ines , if s , of less collecting sweet , less * in
fully satisfying than the former , can yet be obtained wiien that hear is unattainable t in its parching , and can thirs always t for human afford some symp r ath efreshment y . Nor was to the it
all only the themselves benefit they who mi suffered ght have , but derived others from , too being , were admitted deprived to of
communion with what were undoubtedly stronger and more richl can read y en without dowed minds regret th how an are at the often sch to ool be- in met Brussels with . a Who The
, , sisters spoke to no one but from necessity . They clung together , friended and kept Bel apart ian from irls . the " Yet herd whatever of happy was , boisterous over-boisterous , well-be in - g
these young g Flemings _, might have been softened and refined mi by g the ht have more been gentl enlivened e English by , their as much gayer as -natured they in companions their turn _^ -
mutu had of too not al great advan their seclusion t unfortunate age . The , stood power reserve insuperabl of , the the writings almost y in the invari , in way which able of result their . this
natures at last found a means of _expression , only prove how much greater an influence their lives might laced have like exerted centres on
without those aroun a circle d them suns , had with they no lanets not been to receive p their . But if the . evil , of insufficien p t social intercourse rays be thus
great irits even toowho when united several in closest are secluded bonds b together y affinity , of congen nature ial
and sp the greatest , , similarity of tastes and pursuits , can find and truest in fellowshi each other p and how cons is tant it enhanced sympathy wh amongst en the _isolation themselves is
this rendered entirely retirement from comp any lete is , association , in by a a measure sing with le , child other counterbalanced being children cut . off Sometimes when almost , the
176 „ A Lonely Childhood,
176 _„ A LONELY CHILDHOOD ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/32/
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