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    LADY HESTEE STANHOPE. 227

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    — — Much Has Been Said And Written Latel...

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    furnish it . " There is little occasion to envy the abstract culture of the mere scholarwhose " heart is laid asleep on the activity of

    the intellect" and who , with insensibility to outward things , leads and an apology promiscuous , for a association life ; , but still with less the need world we which desire is likel that y to exciting

    dissipate erverts instead all but of concentrating the strongest the hearts affections . Better , and the which eloquence usuall of y

    priate p " restrained to high feeling and deep " skims than sentiments the the constant surface , "which of gossi has the p much stream which " " esprit is hut inappro , leaves " but

    little souland which " , the .. depths , of feeling un the stirred . hs Better of live in than ignorance the of risk the

    p of leasures trifling of with conquest all that or is noble triump and great beauty , by setting , up run the idol of " self" for admirationand by allowing the craving for power to

    , become Nature a permanent and circumstances instinct from . the birth of Lady Hester Stanhope her vanitShe

    ences was seemed subjected . At to combine the p from eriod to her of nourish the childhood the French her ideas egotism Revolution to which the and most had natter , a extraordinary portion gained of ground Eng y . influ lish in

    -France society . was Willi infected am Pitt by himself was at one time not free from a certain modified admiration for the doctrines of Thomas Paine . But entered into

    than public being he thoroug life forgot , and hl his y saw practical hilosop his country hical in his dogmas nature engaged , and he in no sacrificed a sooner perilous his strugg theories le ,

    to the exigencies of p his times . " Tom , Paine may be right , " he would say to his friends , " but his should disciples have have blood no common revolution sense *

    brother and If I , were after -in- to law all favor , things the his father doctrines would of be Lad , we just y Hester as they Stanhope were a b , efore y remarkable . " His ,

    for his inventive , facultiesbut still more for his eccentricities , was , howeverone of the most , earnest advocates for English repub-, arl of

    licanism . Radicalism with CharlesEStanhope , was a favorite one of the way most of makin bitter g himself enemies remarkable of the , caste . by He which came he forwar was d dis as - had

    fact tingui nothing himself shed superhuman . half But an his idiot opponents in . it , In but the declared that middle this th of enemy at winter this of abnegation he tyrants would was sleep in the he

    tea would with without open shiver windows sugar in insufficient . If tin ter these der to his a clothing be dozen book symp , coverlids toms and But live of lunatic insanity . on In brown or , not Dr daytime bread . Winslow the , E and arl add fresh chap ,

    may of Stanhop a e was undoubtedly so . absorbed , in his inventions or

    Lady Hestee Stanhope. 227

    LADY HESTEE STANHOPE . 227

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/11/