Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1839-05-30
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From Chereley, or the Man Of Honor,


Novel, BY Lady Lytton Bulwer.
For such as believe that Love is and
ought to be omnipotent, the following
tale ca, have but little attraction; and 1.
on the other hand, tolhose the unmerci-
fully viruous, who deem that 10 "feel
tempted, is to SIM" and W ho in their no.
tions Of. the perlecIible capacities of hu-
man nature, go beyond ,PythpSoras and
Plato. it will have still less: for TO them
The many languaged voice Of the passions
is the unknown tongue Of 81. Paul; re!
quiring Interpretation; ); they are, indeed
righteous over much,' yet wanting all
The fair humunities of old religion
Oh how many uncanonized martyrs
there are in every day domestic affairs,
hourly warning both with the flesh and The
spirit (and literally taking up their cross
daily;) and this must eve! be The case as
long as men continue to enforce the laws
of God grammalically, thereby assuming
wide difference between the masculine
and feminine, which is no where to be
foundsin the text! 'C'est une trisle me-
tier que cele de femme says The French
proverb, and it says truly. In society,Ihe
worst conducted women generally fare
the hest, because their provocations to
misconduct are often most humanely and
charitably allowed; while the really virtu-
Gus almost invariably find coolness and in
sensihility, or want of temptation The only
merits awarded to them. But il is in Eng-
land alone that there is dark and jesuit
ical hypocrisy in the Systematically unjust
conduct Of men towards women; and those
gentlemen who write the most literally
and lachrymosely about the errors of fe.
male education, which tends to stul,ify
their intellect, warp their judgment, weak
en- the moral lone u: their natures, and in
every way unfit them to be the compan-
ions of men,, are the verv first practically
to labor for this state of things, which they
affect 10 deprecate. As most husbands
appear to think, that if their wives have
second idea, The world cannot be large e.
nough for them both, any more than Two
suns can shine in one hemisphere. But
the manner Of evincing this opinion is even
more offensive than the opinion itself, as
they never cease to Gfche the veto that
women have no right even tomental free
will, ,aud are as much surprised at their
daring to express, an opinion, different to
what they have been commanded 10 enter.
tain, as iflhe ground on which they walk
ed.were suddenly to exclaim, Don't tram
pie on me so ha!dly!' Then come the eex-
parle judgements Of how farlhings ought
to annoy or please others-a matter per-
fectly impossible 10 be decided upon, but
by self; so true.is the assertion of Epnte-
tus, that men are more tormenied by The
opinion of things than by the things Them
selves" -
We.6 an admirable description of a
lady, evidently intended by the authoress
for herself, and shortly afterward some re-
Elections which evidently originated in the
lady's own experience.
Lady de Clifford was taller than her
sister; her beauty was altogether Of diff
ferent kind; her head and the manner in
which it was placed upon her shoulders,
was quite as classical as Fanny's; but then
the contour was more that of Juno than of
Psyche.
Frank, generous, and affectIonafe, she
met with nothing in her,husband's family
but deceit, meanness, aud coldness. Like
all intellectual women she was Of social
disposition, and halfher life was condemned
to solitude aud silence. Clever men have
thousand ways of making their talents
available-science, politics, law, war, lit
a6ature. all are; open TO. dep, 'self-love
and social are not necessarily the same;
bu, a woman has bu; one sphere wherein
to enjoy her talen!s-soeiety. ], may bo