The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 5 of 5)Burney, Fanny
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The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 5 of 5)
Burney, Fanny
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Refugees -- Fiction; Historical fiction; Refugees -- Fiction; War stories
Here, and thus felicitously, ended, with the acknowledgement of her
name, and her family, the DIFFICULTIES of the WANDERER;--a being who had
been cast upon herself; a female Robinson Crusoe, as unaided and
unprotected, though in the midst of the world, as that imaginary hero in
his uninhabited island; and reduced either to sink, through inanition,
to nonentity, or to be rescued from famine and death by such resources
as she could find, independently, in herself.
How mighty, thus circumstanced, are the DIFFICULTIES with which a FEMALE
has to struggle! Her honour always in danger of being assailed, her
delicacy of being offended, her strength of being exhausted, and her
virtue of being calumniated!
Yet even DIFFICULTIES such as these are not insurmountable, where mental
courage, operating through patience, prudence, and principle, supply
physical force, combat disappointment, and keep the untamed spirits
superiour to failure, and ever alive to hope.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5), by Fanny Burney
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