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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Winslow [Maine], March 12, 1820. I can't talk about books, nor anything else, until 1 tell you the good news; that I leave Norridgewock, and take a school in Gardiner, as soon as the travelling is tolerable. When I go to Gardiner, remember to write often, for 't is woman alone who truly feels what it is to be a stranger. Did you know that last month I entered my nineteenth year? I hope, my dear brother, that you feel as happy as I do. Not that I have formed any high-flown expectations. All I expect is, that, if I am industrious and prudent I shall be independent. I love to feel like Malcolm Graeme when he says to Allan Bane, Tell Roderick Dhu I owe him naught. Have you seen Ivanhoe ? The Shakespeare of novelists has struck out a new path for his versatile and daring genius, I understand. Does he walk with such elastic and lofty tread as when upon his own mountain heath? Have his wings expanded since he left the hills of Cheviot? Or was the torch of fancy
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To the same. (search)
To the same. Gardiner [Maine], May 31, 1820. You need not fear my becoming a Swedenborgian. I am in more danger of wrecking on the rocks of skepticism than of stranding on the shoals of fanaticism. I am apt to regard a system of religion as I do any other beautiful theory. It plays round the imagination, but fails to reach the heart. I wish I could find some religion in which my heart and understanding could unite; that amidst the darkest clouds of this life I might ever be cheered with the mild halo of religious consolation. With respect to Paley's system, I believe I said in my last that if I admitted your position, the next step was to acknowledge the spontaneous growth of goodness in the human heart. Is this what you did not understand? In your answer to my first letter on the subject, you say, Is it always possible to foresee all the remote consequences of an action, so as to judge whether it is expedient or not? And even if it were, would not the time for action
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
iss A. B., letters to, 231, 251, 258. Francis, Convers, aids and encourages his sister, v.,VI.,1; letters to l,2,4, 5, 6, 7, 12,16, 17, 29, 33. 39, 40, 50, 58, 63, 64, 65, 74, 89, 98; on the death of his wife, 163; death of, 172. Francis, Lydia Maria, birth of, v.; her first schooling, v., VI.; ambitious to write a novel, VI.; reads Paradise lost, 1, 2; Guy Mannering, 2; Gibbon's Roman Empire, 4; Shakespeare, 4; The Spectator, 5; Johnson her favorite writer, 5; takes a school in Gardiner, Me., 5; her opinion of Byron, 7: discusses Paley's system, 7; her early literary successes, VII., 10; first meets Mr. Child, 8; her marriage, 10. Freedmen's book, The, by Mrs. Child, 192, 201. Free Religious Association, meeting of the, 239. Fremont, John C., 79: his emancipation proclamation, 162. Friends, the, degeneracy of, 22, 28. Frothingham, Rev. O. B., 232. Frugal Housewife, The, VII. Fugitive slaves, advertisements of, 128, 129; returned by U. S. troops, 149,150,