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    162 BlSzABETHrvOK RECKE.

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

    pending danger , oj counteracting" these evil impressions , and giving ' an impulse in an opposite direction . This messenger of good was

    merely a nurse , and a serf on her _father ' s estate , but who , slave foster thoug - h sister she was and , bore afterwards a noble waiting heart -woman in her to bosom Elizabeth . She _' s had mother been ;

    and no doubt , her naturally good disposition owed , much to the culture bestowed on it by this excellent lady , whose bread thus cast on

    the waters was returned in a very unforeseen manner , for what had been received from the mother was now imparted to the daughter .

    The worthy slave was never tired of repeating to her attentive and susceptible nursling instances of her mother's mildness and

    benevolence nation , her to the readiness will of God to forg ; often ive , and taking , above her all to , her her mother piety and ' s portrait resig- ,

    she would stand before it while repeating her narrations , and incite the child to lead a life worthy of this great example . To

    was deep now en the an impression angel with , God she would she was tell still her ever that hovering though around her parent her

    , Elizabeth , seeing all that she did , and rejoicing when she could relate in heaven that her daughter was growing pious and good ; and

    the child ' s endeavors after virtue soon received another strong iminmates petus from of her the grandmother morning and ' s house evening were devotions daily present at , which and in all which the

    she was permitted to take a part as soon as she was eight years old . A year and or two irituality after she awakened met with a new the sensibility hymns of Neander within her ; , their and

    power as she gladly sp committed them to memory , their influence was as lasting But while as it was thus deep was . laid the foundation of that piety which

    disp inclination layed itself to in mysticism a character and of indul great gence moral in the worth lofty , with soarings it grew of re an

    li tins gious misdirection speculation of . her Asceticism energies became was promoted now her ruling by her passion intellectual ; and

    education being in some respects entirely neglected , in others carried on . in a manner singularly unattractive to a young mind . There

    of whom was intrusting a strong they mi the prejudice ght education early at learn this of time to girls converse among to a the French in upper French instructress instructio classes ; and , when in , favor from from to

    these to a private be all superficial that tutor was in _langua reli necessary gion ge- , lessons history ; and wer , even and e geograp added deeper som h seeing y , e , this parents was thoug n could ht

    educational hardly make opportunities head against were this prejudice offered . , The at a little perio countess d when no was better thus

    exposed to a treatment but ill adapted to promote mental development . Her backwardness in French and in all other knowledge was

    often discussedbut never traced to its real cause , so that the reproach of it fell , the child herself . The most amiable of those

    _afrout her upon with whom poor she preferred to spend her time , to the neglect ,

    of those who were appointed to take charge of her , at last allowed

    162 Blszabethrvok Recke.

    162 _BlSzABETHrvOK RECKE .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/18/