The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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science of her who desires it to bear the unpurchaseable
fruit of happiness and moral oeauty. Nor is
this a light task ; for, as Flavel remarks, " It is
much easier to pull many weeds out of a garden,
tlian one corruption out of the heart, and to procure
a hundred flowers to adorn a plot, than one grace to
beautify a soul."
In extensive museums there are usually collected
various specimens of marble statuary. The rudelysculptured,
grotesque figures of half-civilized art are
there, looking like caricatures, rather than resemblances
of any living thing. Ranging from these
unseemly ofTsprings of an untutored genius, there
are images in every stage of perfection and imperfection,
up to the loveliest and highest creations of
the artist, inspired by the purest conceptions of
beauty. But all these varied forms were once unhewn
and shapeless portions of the quarry. They
owe their several differences of form and figure to
the diversity of skill employed in giving them their
respective shapes. Had the chisel of Canova or
Chantrey wrought on the block of stone which rudej