Pictures from English literature . idealwoman, clothed in all the graces of meekness and long-suffering, and faith,and love, and obedience, entirely removed above imitation and sympathy ?Are there no patient Griseldas now in the world ? Do we not meet themevery day in the common walks of life ? Let woman under her trials takecomfort in this, that God who has denied her the physical strength of the IO Pictures from English Literature. man, has compensated her with a fortitude beyond that of man—a meekand quiet spirit—a power unknown, it may be, while her life is sereneand cloudless, but shining
Pictures from English literature . idealwoman, clothed in all the graces of meekness and long-suffering, and faith,and love, and obedience, entirely removed above imitation and sympathy ?Are there no patient Griseldas now in the world ? Do we not meet themevery day in the common walks of life ? Let woman under her trials takecomfort in this, that God who has denied her the physical strength of the IO Pictures from English Literature. man, has compensated her with a fortitude beyond that of man—a meekand quiet spirit—a power unknown, it may be, while her life is sereneand cloudless, but shining out lustrous and beautiful in the hour of adversity,as the bow owes all its glory and loveliness to the sunlight shining throughthe falling rain. And let man thank God that woman is, what she is—wonderful in her strength, lovable in her weakness—as truly the mysterioussupplement of his own moral nature to complete the perfect image in whichhe was made, as she is in her physical being a portion of his once
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