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    Coflscktoce , never utterly destroyed , and jttdgiaeat * -if t * # Hn naturally acute , would eaoh continually add something to F « ftkW the wounds from which she suffered . Deficient flattery ' siiggggtttt fears about default * and then conscience would ask , Do Wu

    deserve faith , fealty , or firmness ? ' Excessive flattery suggetftett suspicions of sincerity , and then judgment would exclaim , Is this daubing meet for a classic eye like your * s V But conskaew&e , judgment , every high and noble thought , were flung asid * a * she hurried to the accustomed crowd , as if she had set ' her * lift upon a cast , and must stand the hazard of the die . '

    Perhaps beauty is of all human power the most perfect ; effortless , instantaneous in its action , it may say , with Caesar , * I came , I saw , I conquered . ' Yet perhaps it is also the least fortunate kind of power , since it is most subject to corrupting influences durin g its rise and meridian , and suffers most intensely from moral reverses during its decline . But nature had not doWeretl

    Isabella merely with beauty—the mental jewel was worthy of the material casket ; energy and fine spirits also formed a part of her gifted nature , and these , in co-operation with a high , free , dill- * gent cultivation of her powers , might have carried her to some point of greatness where she might have lived blessed and bledsing as well as brilliant—whence she might have been * rxhaled to other heights in that region to which , rapt and reverent ,

    imagination rises . The principal characteristic of Isabella ' s mind was concentration : born in circumstances which strictly confined her to the woman-sphere , —vanity and wedlock , —she chose the field whicli the first offered her . With feelings free from every sordid taint , when she first entered the paltry arena in which art forms the means and marriage the meed , she was like a young Arab barb put upon a mill-wheel , who would circle it again and again like wildfire , till he destroyed himself and the dull instrument of his

    torture . Virtually , not actually , her plan of action was prescribed tp her , but the poisonous policy inculcated could not shape her course to mercenary conquest—her quarry was the heaft . But , with the conqueror ' s ignorant and insatiable thirst for dominion , to win and waste was her bent : —like him , reckless and destructive , she remorselessly left to desolation the region she had irtvaded and subjugated .

    War is called a noble science—the soldier an ennobled being : the ambuscade , the surprise , the assault , the carnage , which is ine consummation of th © whole , are all arrayed in the pages ptf history ~^ in the columns of the ' Gazette ; * and people , perverted b y false impressions , nee nothing but glory aiid greatness : ndtv W the same compliment paid to tin * coquette ; let her have , at teMt , ft&fe leaf ffonU the soldier ' * cJhaplet . ' ' It is constantly observed that we cannot say to the pa » ffttftft >

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 555, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/55/