Volume 2

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, natural or acquired ... with a faithful narration of every instance of singularity, manifested in the lives and conduct of characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their eccentricities ... / Collected and re-collected, from the most authentic sources, by G.H. Wilson. In four volumes.

  • Wilson, G. H.
Date:
1806-1807
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Credit: 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, natural or acquired ... with a faithful narration of every instance of singularity, manifested in the lives and conduct of characters who have rendered themselves eminently conspicuous by their eccentricities ... / Collected and re-collected, from the most authentic sources, by G.H. Wilson. In four volumes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MARIA ELEONORA SCIIONING. 1] his relics. She left the church-yarrl, paced slowly through the city gate, and threw hersell under a hedge, to spend the coming day, as she had done the preceding night, in tears. Slowly crept the hours of this dismal day for the wretched Maria. Night approached, and hunger drove hack the sufferer into a place which had robbed her of every thing but her wretchedness, where she had nothing left but a life that she would most joyfully have resigned. She had not the courage to beg, and to the idea of stealing her innocent soul was a stranger. The last glim- mer of evening found her again at the grave of her father. The church-yards of most of, the German ci- ties are equally pernicious to morals and to health. They have lost the venerable character by which they were formerly distinguished; their loneliness and solitude render them the undis- turbed haunts of vice and beastly depravity. Jt was close beside the grave of her father that Ma- ria fell a prey to a roving debduchee. The bru- tal monster took advantage of her situation, and the purest innocence lost that jewel which the emaciated I\.Iaria, half*dead with hunger, watch- ing and grief, had neither the strength nor the spirit to defend. Tate seemed to be in league with her ravislier, and to have paralysed with malignant otticiousness the faculties both of her body and mind, while he perpetrated the crime. It was one of those nights of autumn in wliich