The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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CONTENTS.
stonny petrel — Tlie land bml — Fatal consequences of wandering
from an appointed sphere — John Adams and Gen. Howe — J. Q.
Adams' tribute to his niutlier — Kant — Pascal — Martyn — Woman's
mission gratifying to ambition — Pleasure of her mission—Washington
and his mother at a festal scene— Religion needed to fit a young
Itody for her work.
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CHAPTER V.
LOVELINESS OF SPIRIT.
eiinracter of Lucy—A lovely spirit the central star in female character
— Woman's sceptre and sword — Its strength — Ossian's maid of
Lutha — Loveliness the offspring of high qualities — The maniac —
The little girl — The proffered gift—Victory of love over matbiess —
The market-woman and her idiot boy — The death chamber — Love
and idiocy — The abbey — Cazotte and his daughter — A thrilling
scene — Love subduing the spirit of assassins — An inference — The
arg-ament applied — Cornelia and the Gracchi — T)ie Romans and
their marble statues — A gi-eat truth — How loveliness wins its triumphs—William
Wirt to bis daughter — Annette and Frederick-
The happy discovery — Caius Marius and the Gallic soldier — Mental
impressions — Mind must pos^^ess the qualities it imprints on others
— Effects of seeking lovely spirit — The twin children — Sympathy
— Extract from Schiller — Posa's question to Philip — Loveliness
not natural in woman, not attainable by human strengin — Job's confession
— Paul's experience — Divine help necessary to genuine loveliness
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CHAPTER VI.
SELF-RELIANCE.
flie SMss huntsman — The discovered treasure — The enchantment of
gold — The fatal rock — Tlie hunter's death — Pity for his fate —
Kindred folly — The future sacrificed to the present — A first duty —
Fitness for
the emergencies of life — The ivy and the oak — A discredited
saying — Madame Letitia — Pictures of Marie Antoinette —
Mournful illustration of the uncertainty of hope — The illustration
applied — Independence on the question of marriage secured by selfreliance—
Marrying for a settlement — Superior position of a self-