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with all the beauty of language . Without any design of making a proselyte she gained one . Miss Harry grew pensively
serious , and meditated perpetuall y on all which had dropt from { he lips of Mrs . Knowles , on a theme , the infinite importance of which she then , perhaps , first began to feel . At length , her imagination pursuing this , its primal religious . , bias , she believed Quakerism the only true Christianity . Beneath such conviction , she thought it her duty to join , at ever y hazard of worldly interest , jhat class of worshippers . On declaring these sentiments , several ingenious
clergymen were commissioned . to r £ ason with her ; but we all ^ know the force of first impressions in theology . This young lady tt as argued with by the divines , and
threatened by hrr guardian in vain . She persisted in resigning her splendid expectations for what appear-ed to her the path of duty . Her father , on being made acquainted with her changed-. faith , informed : her / that she migh t choose between an hundred thousand pounds and his ifavour , or two thousand > pounds and his renunciation , as she continued a
churchwunian . or commenced a Quaker . Miss Harry lamented her father ' s displeasure , but thanked him for the pecuniary alternative ,. assuring him that it included all her nvihhes as to fortune .
Soon after . she left her guardi * an ' s . housej and boarded in that of Mrs . tKjiowles ; to her she *> £ . ten .-observed , thatiDr . Johnson ' s displeasure , whom she had . seen frttyueatly , at her guar ^ iiin ' s >^ nd
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J > . Jvhnson ' s Dispute with Mrs . Knotoles * rfrom Miss Seward ' s Letters . Let . xxii . 1 vol . 1 . p . Q 7—1 ° 3- ]
The ' following memorable conversation is interesting and instructive , and to some of our -readers may be new . As Miss Sewards account differs from that formerly printed by Mrs . ' Knowl . es , we subjoin her report , leaving the reader to determine which tears more internal evidence of correctness . EDITOR .
Miss Jenny Harry that was , ior sh £ afterwards married , and died ere the first nuptial year expired , was ; the daughter of a litbplanterin the East Indies .. He seuthqp' over to England to receive
ler etftacfitron , in the . house of his frtendy Mr . Spry , where Mrs . Knmv-icsy- the celebrated quaker , wg ' -frequently •• & visitor . Mr . Spry affected wit t'and v \ as perpetually rall yingMrs . Knowleson the subject of her , Quakerism in the
presence of this young , gentle and bgenuous , girl ; who , at the age ° t eighteen had received what is
called a proper education ^ one of modern . accornplibhmwts , wwith-° ut having b ^ enviuwch instructed inithe nature ** nd grounds of her reli ^ itus ( belie f . U f > on these visits Mrs . Knowles iWasoften-kd into
a serious defence of Quutver-prin-, C 1 ples . She , speaks > vith clear and S ^ ceful c ioquince on every $ uhjwt . " llepniuiilagoiiists were shalf ^ w tlioolqgists ^ tuid opposed only ld'Lvaiid pointless raillery to d ^^ p and U ) pgfcStijdi ^ d : reabc »> ini r ) g on the P ^ ct ^ ts , jQf bcrjptu ^ cs , uttered in P < Uavtve ^/ accents , A aj ) d clothrd
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/7/
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