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sexes : , ' ' . : ¦ : * * *^ ft ;*» , M for God only , she for God in him . " <; . ¦ > We must expunge from the character of Eve the flatterrttgfliiimility which makes her say , " Qod is thy law , thou mine : to know no more , Is woman ' s happiest knowledge and her praise . "
' No , no ; ' said Mrs . Walton , ' touch not a line of John Mil * - tori ' s . I love him as a poet and a republican ; but be tbera tiotes appended to the text , to enlighten the purblind as to the defetflfe of his moral philosophy . Let every being go for himself , or * herself , as much as possible to the fountain-head of knowledge—^ seek , and accept no mediums , if they can help it ; the further from the
fount the less likely is the stream ta be pure ; and , I assure you * ' she added With a playfulness that reminded Mr . Hervey of laer youtfo , * I assure you , whatever you and Milton may think and say , I do not deem you the most transparent and speckles medium through which we may look " through nature up jto nature ' s God . "
The first day that Walton left his room , he was placed upon a sofa , and his mother had fondly contrived , in case he fell asleep , to fasten a curtain to a picture which hung over it * - Gradually every prop to which he had been accustomed , or from which * be could draw support , had been gathered round him ; and lie was become resigned , serene , and grateful . Emma , his sister ; feafi taken her seat near the sofa to read to him : when she obeemeda .
reverie , into which he had fallen , melt into slurriber , she gently drew the curtain and left him . ' i ; One hour of deep refreshing sleep was on him , and he woke with that sense of strength which sometimes visits the convalescent . He opened his eyes widely and suddenly ; a figure , as suddenly glided behind the curtain ; he felt that he was » wake , yet the figure of his dream had just flitted by his couch ; hte tbre aside the curtains—Isabella stood before him I ' i f u
The colours of the May-time morning sky are less beautiful than were those which emotioiV threw upon hi « face . Hi * Inbiinous and dilating eye , his' ^ xterqding and coUapsi ^ noitri l , al&rjrHKl her ; she advanced t # / him—Hshe put her nanonhtoMiib . "" Huftert'l- 'itome to ask your fo ? gioen ^ s 0 r to thank ! yowftyr the 'fo ^ 'I'have ^ l ^ t ^^ i ^ t'Jie ^ rveidly / 1 ^'' - •( ' : ' . >? > - , i ^ mIj otni ; JLditti M ^ m ^ atod ^ ' 'WteTli 6 Ljn loktto all ; and aC kht %
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/61/
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