The Eccentric Mirror; Reflecting a Faithful and Interesting Delineation of Male and Female Characters, Ancient and Modern, Who Have Been Particularly Distinguished by Extraordinary Qualificatons, Talents, and Propensities, Volume 2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mind at case. He lived to the amazing age of t%). Was interred here, Dec. HJ, J-0, and bad this justice done to his memory, 1743." / MARIA ELEONORA SCIIONIXG. MARIA EleonoraSchoning was the daughter of a mechanic at Niirnberg, in Germany. The life of her mother was sacrificed in giving birth to her child. She had the misfortune to lose her father at an age when females are most environed with dangers, when seduction employs all its arts to destroy their innocence and peace of mind. She "was not more than seventeen when she buried him. Ever since her thirteenth year she had been the only attendant on her beloved parent-, ivhom a paralytic seizure, and the loss of the use of his limbs confined to his bed. This long period of the best years of her youth Maria passed beside the bed of sickness, without ever beholding the face of heaven, except when she went abroad for medicines or food. She had not entered a place of divine worship since the day she was confirmed. The duties of a nurse occupied all her time. She fomented his aching limbs, lifted the helpless old man in her yet feeble arms to and from his sick-bed; and had to attend to all the domestic concerns. Day after clay Mai'ia manifested the same patience, wil-. lingness, and indefatigable assiduity, and watched, chapter{Section 4 during many a tedious night, in which the groans of the sufferer called her to liis bed. Her youth was spent in grief; she grew up in tears, a stranger to the pleasures of childhood and the hapless sports of youth. The last words pronounctd by her expiring father were addressed to his confessor. " My dear Maria, said he, has treated me like an angel, during my whole long affliction; the most disagreeable offices never ex- toried from her a look of discontent; her eye never met mine, but i...