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a woman as the endeavour to make happy all who come within her sphere of action , and to enlarge that sphere of action to its greatest possible extent . ' What ! you would destroy that womanl y dependence , that graceful leaning upon man for support , which constitutes the chief charm of the sex . ' We would do away with that mere dependence which is only gratifying to man as it
ministers to his love of power . True affection could never feel happiness in the iveakness of its object : the dependence upon each other for kind offices , for acts of affection , for deep earnest sympathy , is the minister of strength to both , but this differs entirely in its character from the timid helpless dependence which has so long dishonoured the name of woman . ' And what will become of the ivy clinging to the oak , ' and a thousand other pretty similar similes ? The ivy checks the growth of the oak it
clings to , and man ' s help-mate is often his check-mate , in consequence of this dependence having been praised by him as a virtue . ( In some instances it might be rendered help-rneat ; a man once gave as a reason for marrying his wife c that she headed her table like a lady , and knew so well how to carve ! ' ) But the mischief and the misery of all this is , that their fine energies , in being denied full scope , are misdirected . In consequence , they too often become domestic tyrants , or suffer from ill health , the
consequence of unemployed power . ' To whom much is given , of them much wilL be required . ' We need no other application of the text , than to those who , with capabilities to achieve the greater things of this life , yet employ them in the lesser , and find a heavy reckoning in the suffering they bring * upon themselves and those about them . Worried husband ! worried children !
worried friends ! worried servants ! The latter are often the innocent sufferers for the guilty former ; for if men set a value on the dependence which prevents the proper application of power , they must not wonder if the evil recoils upon themselves . All the pictures mentioned above are found in the first suite of rooms . A door on the left leads out upon the roof of some of the lower apartments of the palace . This , like the garden , is a
picture gallery of another kind , with its blue high-arching dome ; the spacious court below you on the left , and on the right a noble street , with churches and towers beyond , and people below basking in the sunshine . The air comes deliciously , and you en j ° y it for awhile , and then proceed to a small light circular room , which has a spirited group in marble in the centre , and niches filled with treasures of a similar kind all round . Then
you enter the Holy of Holies ! The very sanctuary of art . Besides the picture-crowded walls , these rooms are peopled with creatures who seem like the spirits of the place . There is always something melancholy in the nightly desertion and emptiness of a picture gallery : but here are tenants who dwell therein ; and you could almost believe from their exquisite presence , that their
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The Luxembourg . 61
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1834, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2629/page/63/
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