s her own power, and knows how deeply trifles,
when judiciously introduced, will tell.... It is a cornucopia filled
with rich moral fruits of every kind; and, though small are the hints
thrown out here and there, or the advice casually given, still in the
aggregate their voice becomes powerful, and we find that we have been
reading a powerful lesson while we were scanning the jottings of a
diary.... The work is worthy of its author, and will be a general
favourite."--_Atlas._

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unobtrusive tone of true piety."--_Literary Gazette._

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struggle round the walls of Le Puy is a picture of olden warfare, of
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blood, but casuistically, with a ponderous club, immortalizing the
miserable _routiers_. Again, the _cretin_ is a portrait painfully
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