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    XXIV.—ELIZABETH YON BECKE. nBfti tt

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    ~*» ' Past I. There are some individuals...

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    Xxiv.—Elizabeth Yon Becke. Nbfti Tt

    XXIV . —ELIZABETH YON BECKE . _nBfti tt

    ~*» ' Past I. There Are Some Individuals...

    _~*» ' Past I . There are some individuals wlio seem born specially to illustrate

    the fact that * ' There h s hew a divini them ty how that shapes our ends ,

    Roug-we may , _" sonie tso entirel hih y does their irres course ective seem of ex to ternal be marked influences out , or for of them the de _T > - y powerp

    sires and g intentions , of those around them . Their life is a succession of the unexpected opposite events to what ; that could which have actuall been y antici befals pate them d from being their usuall pre y -

    vious very circumstanceswhile their character developes in the very contrary Such an direction instance from is , presented that which to any us in spectator the subject could of have the predicted following .

    memoir Elizabeth . . Charlotte Constantia von der Recke , Countess of 20 th 7

    and Medem havi i n her lost her excellent ight , was mother born in before Courland she was , May two years , 1 old 56 , , g the Starostinn

    was transferred to the care of her grandmother , _* von lute Korf in , a maintaining lady richly endowed whatever in mind seemed and to heart herself , but to yet be inflexibl right , and y reso all

    stric was tness right in seldom her eyes stopp which ing short was of customary severity , was and at conventional that time usuall . As y

    looked consideration upon , as of their the very bodil first constitutions principle of or education mental peculiarities , and , with , little chily

    dren were indiscriminately whipped into their proprieties , the little Elizabeth of stri was duly A submitted single instance to that system suffice which to show trains the by working means

    many pes , may organisation of trumpet this famil althoug y was edition so h delicate she of listened the that Draconian she to could it with code never . plea The hear sure child the without ' s sound nervous such of

    emotion a as , caused her to burst into tears , and this was , looked upon as a naughtiness of such which chastisement must be corrected set the reall by the y well rod . -disposed The continual child's

    recurrence of strongest nature power and this of will over in - dangerous strained exertion conflict with which irresistible on each impulses occasion

    ; , vous violentl convulsions y agitated , which her delicate could never frame , afterwards broug unfavorable ht on be a eradicated tenden circumstances cy . to ner The

    caprices of those around her , and other , adverse combined influence with this pernicious her mind system till of education just when to it exert seemed a very that

    on young ; , angel the most appeared disastrous , thoug bodil h y in and very mental humble results guise must , and en averted sue , a guardian the

    im-* The Starost was a Polish official of high rank .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/17/