The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

10 CONTENTS.
dependent woman — Morvale's firmness — Advance 'nlu life bring*
clianges — Creates necessity for self-reliance — A great fact — Fallen
women — Influence of poverty on their fall — Self reliance might have
saved them — Effect of self-reliance in women on observers — The twc
queens — Marie Antoinette's failure in a crisis — Queen Esther's success
in a great exigency — Causes of Marie's failure — Of EsthRt's
success — Elements of self-reliance, i^
CHAPTER VII.
THE SECRET SPRINGS OF SELF-RELIANCE.
The emir's daughter — Her love — Her pursuit and its success — Her
folly — Rash self-reliance
described — True self-reliance — A decided
mind one of its springs — Example of Pizarro — Consecration to
idea of duty — Effect on the feelings in view of danger — Illustrated
by Empress Josephine's affection for Napoleon — Extract from Joanna
Eaillic — Courage a spring of self reliance — The mother of Jonathan
Harrington — Necessity of courage — Use of in woman — Count
Alberti and his noble wife- Ayxa the sultana — Poetic extract-
Learning how to support self— Henry Laurens to his daughters —
Madame de Genlis —Education a means of support — Skill in needlework
— Life in a factory considered — Labor not degrading— Madame
Roland— Mary Dwight — Trust in God — Paul at the Roman tribunal
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CHAPTER VIII.
OF SELF-CULTURE.
tlbwald's character — Sameness of human hearts — Seed of eood an(J
ill — Culture a condition of growth — Sculptures in museums — Relation
of skill and beauty — Diversity of female character— Vain wonieii
- -Artful, selfish, malicious women — Slanderers — Model women —
The difference explained — Self culture urged — Encouraged — Extract
from De Monifort — The embroidery pattern — Correct aim necessaiy
— Mutual relations of mind and body — Health must be cared for —
Intellectual culture — Reading for pleasure — Novels — Their relati.n
to pleasure and to character — Their irreligious tendency — Object of
reading— How to find pleasure in reading — The Bible — How to read
It— Moral culture —A secret — Jeanie Deans — Princess Elizabeth —
A comparison — Constantine to Victoria — Impulses — The sinking?
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