Excerpt from Gems of Female Biography, Vol. 1 And can a young lady of good sense and generous impulses, trace the history of such persons as Lady Jane Grey and Mrs. Rowe without resolving to re deem the timk - to buy up every fleeting half-hour for the cultivation of her mind 7 Or can she follow Lady Huntingdon and Mrs. Graham in their career of nu tiring benevolence; or Mrs. Morris, in her path of self-denial, her work of faith, and to her suffering yet triumphant death-bed; without purposing to follow them as they followed Christ 7 Example is an instrumentality for good or for evil of immense power. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be de stroyed. This principle applies to books, as well as to personal intercourse. Tell me with whom you live, and I will tell you what you are, says the Span ish proverb. We may say with almost equal emphasis, Tell me what you read, and I will tell you what you are. A single pernicious volume may give a wrong direction to a being whose lifetime is eternity. A gogd book, on the other hand, may implant in the heart the seed that shall bear fruit to eternal life. D. 8. 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.