Excerpt from Brief Memoir of Maria Fox: Late of Tottenham The following memoir of Maria Fox is an abridgment of the one edited by her husband and published in 1846. It consists almost wholly of selections from her letters and extracts from her Diary: - "The path of the just is as a shining light, which shining more and more unto the perfect day." In following the footsteps of Maria Fox, the reader can scarcely fail to be impressed with the remarkable completeness of her character, in which is presented a beautiful combination of womanly delicacy, intellectual culture, and earnest piety. Her writings abound with thoughts and feelings which so strikingly illustrate, not only her daily life, but the motive which prompted the scrupulous fulfilment of duty, that it has been a task of no small difficulty to decide what to omit in her husband's carefully compiled volume; yet it was believed that her example, exhibiting so strongly the union of self-denial and submission to the divine will with the culture of the affections and the intellect and the rich enjoyment of the beautiful in nature, might be profitably placed within the reach of all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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