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one and the same result. We agree that his words and his acts clearly interpret his character to us, and that they never leave us in doubt as to the mo

t we must add Mrs. Eddy. I think we can peacefully agree as to two or three extraordinary features of her make-up, but not upon the other feat

l basis. She and her friends deny that she took anything from him. This is a matter which we can discuss by-and-by. Whether she took it or invented it, it was-materially-a sawdust mine when she got it, and she has turned it into a Klondike; its spiritual dock had next to no custom, if any at all: from it she has launched a world-religion which has now six hundred and sixty-three churches, and

ng things, it is necessary that I offer some details calculated to satisfactorily demonstrate the proportions which I have claimed for her. I will do that presently; but before exhibiting the matured sequoia gigantea, I believe it will be best to exhibit the sprout from which it sprang. It may save the reader from making miscalculat

running a half-century a close race and gain

himself as Big Metal every time he tries to do the modest-unconsciousness act before the reader. This is not guessing; I am speaking from autobiographical personal experience; I was never able to refrain from mentioning, with a studied casualness that could deceive none but the most incautious reader, that an ancestor of mine was sent ambassador to Spain by Charles I., nor that in a remote bra

ding them with naive satisfaction-even rescuing some early rhymes of hers of the sort that we all scribble in the innocent days of our youth-rescuing them and printing them without pity or apolo

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manifestly admire those Poems, indicates that the most daring and masculine and masterful woman that has

s them and sets them aside for use, not overlooking the one to whom Sir William Wallace gave "a heavy sword encased in a brass scabbard," and naively explaining which Sir William Wallace it was, lest we get the wro

with a suspicion wellnigh amounting to conviction, that that person would not suspect us of being so empty of knowledge if he wasn't suffering f

ay's Grammar as with the Westminster Catechism; and the latter I had to repeat every Sunday. My favorite studies were Natural P

of that rebuke. But then your eye falls upon the next sentence but one, and t

e, most of the knowledge I had gleaned

Baker's family," she sets him down, and remembers that he "was prominent in British politics, and at one time held the position of ambassador to Persia"; when she discovers that her grandparents "were likewise connected with Captain John Lovewell, whose gallant leadership and death in the Indian troubles of 1722-25 caused that prolonged contest to be known historically as Lovewell's War

rge and fine in her modesty in not caring to remember that their kinship to her can confer no distinction