Description - Geraldine, or Modes of Faith and Practice Volume 1 by Mary Jane MacKenzie
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1821 Excerpt: ...that it was as rational and possible, to be in love with a picture: and now he is raving about the magic of beauty, and pretending, that' the love that kills indeed, dispatches at a blow.'" " Who expects consistency from man?" exclaimed Mr. Spenser; " the creature of circumstances, the slave of passions and feelings as mutable and capricious as the winds of heaven, or the shifting clouds of an evening sky." " Speak for yourself, if you please Sir," said Mr. Mowbray. " Acknowledge your individual faults, if you wish it, as candidly as yon Vol. i. 13 think proper; but don't attempt to palm them upon man as a species." " Happily," said Mr. Maitland, " man is not predestined to be the slave of his passions. If he be so, he forges his own fetters. He was created ' sufficient to stand, but liable to fall.' " " Take care of yourself," exclaimed Mr. Mowbray. " Maitland is trying to entangle you in the labyrinth of fate and free-will, Mr. Spenser; and, if he succeed, there you may wander, like the Babes in the Wood, till the day of your death, without hope of eseape." " If you enter upon such abstruse subjects," said Fanny, who had just rejoined them, " I must follow the example of Eve, and make a graceful retreat: you know she refused to listen to them, even from the tongue of an angel." " And you recollect her reason, I hope," said Mr. Spenser " she preferred bearing them from the mouth of the man she loved." " That was a very pretty compliment, indeed," replied Fanny," and quite fit for the bowers of Eden; but I should run away from pure ignorance and incapacity, from positive distate for ' such converse high.' " " ...
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