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What a conception of modesty and delicacy-must they enters tata ^ &fe o im&gine them necessarily associated with deceit and falsehood ! Sweet-voiced , feright-eyed Truthi oowae among ? men , and show them of what stuff their refinements are made I Tell them that when they ' paint the . lily and gild refiaed igold / ithe y soon get nothing but the paint in place of the purity of the flower , and toe varnish instead of the weight of the precious ore . Lady Morgan , in her clever preface to the new edition of
• Q * I >© nneV while defending herself against the charge of strong political tendencies , talks about * womanly sympathies / and the 4 proprieties of the sex . I cannot comprehend this * There appekr « tanme no sympathies to which the heart of woman nn > ay awafcen ; by which the heart of man may not be moved ; the * -pro * l ^ iclies which ^ re imperative upon her ought \ o be < timitative upoaihiriii - This common jargon of exclusive sympathies and pKdpfUQtaes belongs alone to tke existing state of deiosioiv- —th « si&toi < afnA not the substance of morality ; it grows out of the
unnatural restraints placed upon women , and the ^ equally mm a ^ Uural llfcenci ^ permitted to men ; it proceeds from the existence of the two aiOTalities , the female morality and the male morality , which ' two ones , wiake / unlike every other arithmetical junction , wfaenjbinedtogether i no morality at all . . / Efaere isnotoiore certain moral salvation than love , when
cheriah ^ dtfoi a worthy object ; its redeeming power operated upon ev »» iMoiitaguo ; his feelings and his reason , ruined as they nad heeao , ^ drejmot immediately righted , but they took a disposition to > ii | fhti < khemBelTe « 5 and perhaps , had the influence bo benignly acstingbn him'beeri permitted to continue , the holy spirit of happintias ^ / rrh ^ D she numbered heT children , might have found him anorigLthdm . "
But Mrs . Vernon was quick to perceive the change apparent in Montaigne , to interpret the cause and devise the remedy . She sumcQohadi ( Florence one -morning to her dressing-room , where , in a very graceful but in somewhat haughty manner , she informed her ^ tJoiat her aervices id the family could be dispensed with . , i ' iMay 1 inquire , Madam , ' said Miss Paget , ' the motive of tikis ? i- , Ldm unconaeious of having offended any one , of having negldoted any fluty ?' €
You have not offended me , I assure you , Miss Paget ; nor am I wo « ihl ^]< rf faiiUra in any of your duties . This unpleasant bisimeiaiha * been tlwroMia on ^ niy tiands ; but . in fact every thing is on i ^/ hfceil * » i < iKl ^ > you know , must Submit : * I only knriw tbetliiiikd'pe ^ o ^ mud % dote how or other wa a » e ^ a bar to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/24/
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