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tfee bmrtigitWn- tefag amUwcttA-in die-maxm « f ^ tto i » c « i » lik « 4 y fi a * cer * mn whether or not the practteij gfaandoBTBbnrt I of iSbe 'f riitttipfe have arisen from tbe coTrviclioii ^; on < ti&u experience oi * its working , thdt it is not conducive to the 1 cad . of insjitittions , —the security of happiness . The morfcl afrit
religi ©** # Obligations professed by the community , the legil provisions * the social customs , the popular maxims * labfe prevalent : teelittg , and the actual practice of society , are frequently M \ variance one with the other . This discrepancy is na < wb $ » eojttiore striking than in the most important of all tlie r ^ l atiqns of docial life , in which the legal provision does not support the religious profession , and the acknowledged moral obfrigjfcj&m is utterly set at nought by custom , and practice . - from but
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1 ft : Lw ^ fce M Specimens of Dramatic Poet * " there js MX , i extr ^ plfctfriom " The Woman killed with Kindness , " by Heywood . The story is as follows : —Mr . Frankford discovers that his wife has oeen unfaithful to him . She implores pardon ix * the moat heart-rending terras , and at any rate prays that he will not " hack her with his sword , " but " suffer her to go perfect and undeformed to her tomb . " He , in reply sets before ner in
the strongest terms her cruelty to bini and their children , and the heinous nature of her crime in itself , and . theu leaves her , that he may , as he says do nothing rashly , but may deliberate on her sentence . He returns , and desires that yvithin two hours she will leave his house and go to another at some distance , where he is to allow her servants , and tneans of living on condition that she removes every thing -that may reniifrd him " such a woman ever was / ' She is never again to
&ee him , or write to him or his children . They ajre henceforth to be 4 < as they had never seen and never more shall see each other . " She is very grateful , and goes , taking away every thing , but her lute , which is forgotten . He finds it and dends it after her . She desires the servant who brings it , to break it under her coach wheel , as the last music it e ' er shall make , and to tell his master that she was going to starve herself to death ; not as a message from her ; " oh , no , she dare
not so presume / ' but as a fuct he had learned . She does starve herself and dies ; gome mutual friends having first prevailed ou Mr . Frankford to see her on her death-bed , as she earnestl y de # H *© d' it , when ke forgiven her , because she ha dymg » Tbis . scene id given . iit < the nrost powerful manner , and leaves on- the mimi * a &ena * tieA . office am ] bitterness difficult to overeomfev M *> Hrtuikfertl is ( taktHg ttevwood ' s and the common vtew * £ the subject ) nhdni ^ bind / lie lov * v * his wife tenderly ' end - « ufters ; 4 aef > iyv bmt .-udt « w she- toilers . ....
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1836, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2659/page/33/
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