The Young Lady's Counsellor by Daniel Wise

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Ihe same remarks are applicable to all othei women
of corresponding qualities. Who, for example, can
lOve the masculine energy of that really strongminded
woman, Queen Elizabeth ?
Her qualities,
great and high as they were, cannot command our
affections, even though she stands before us as the
" good Queen Bess." So with Martha Glar, the
Swiss heroine, who led over two
hundred women to
the field of Frauenbrun and to death, in defence of
liberty ; with Jael, the destroyer of Sisera ; and with
every other woman who has stepped over the sphere
which nature, with unerring wisdom, has assigned to
her sex.
While Volumnia and Virgilia, the mother
and wdfe of Coriolanus, who saved their country by
affectionate appeals to the love and patriotism
of that
indignant warrior, — Lady Jane Grey, who chose
imprisonment and death rather than to shed English
blood in defence of her claims,— and even Queen Victoria,
in whom the woman is mere prominent than
the queen, with hosts of others, who have blended true
womanly qualities with great and heroic deeds, live in
tbe affections of both sexes.
How clear, therefore, is