Styles to be always Mr. Styles--always cut off from
every hope of mercy, and remaining for ever himself."
At the end of the article, the writer glories in the fact that the
Government of India is beginning to harry the missionaries.--
"The Board of Control (all Atheists, and disciples of Voltaire, of
course) are so entirely of our way of thinking, that the most
peremptory orders have been issued to send all the missionaries home
upon the slightest appearance of disturbance. Those who have sons and
brothers in India may now sleep in peace. Upon the transmission of
this order, Mr. Styles is said to have destroyed himself with a
_kime_."
The same vigorous dislike to the Evangelical way of religion animates the
article on Hannah More; and here again the criticized writer gave the
critic just the handle which he required.
"We observe that Mrs. More, in one part of her work, falls into the
common error about dress. She first blames ladies for exposing their
persons in the present style of dress, and then says, if they knew
their own interest--if they were aware how much more alluring they
were to men when their charms are less displayed, they would make the
desired alteration from motives merely selfish.
"'Oh! if women in general knew what was their real interest, if they
could guess with what a charm even the _appearance_ of modesty invests
its possessor, they would dress decorously from mere self-love, if not
from principle.
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