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Excerpt from Olympia Morata: Her Times, Life and Writings, Arranged From Contemporary and Other Authorities
Work of Dr. M'crie on the progress and sup pression of the Reformation in Italy, that the authoress is indebted for the pleasure derived from the compilation of the following pages. The motive to which they owed their origin was simply the desire of becoming herself better acquainted with, and introducing to other unlearned readers, the life and writings of a Christian heroine - uniting, in so rare and eminent a degree as Olympia Morata, the qualities and accomplishments which en gage human esteem, with the more imperish able treasures of that better part, of which early death itself could not deprive her. With this, as the pleasing task proceeded, might mingle a Spark of pardonable fe male exultation, at the discovery happily for the sex, no unprecedented one how compatible are not only great natural ta lents, but the deepest acquired erudition, with the most feminine delicacy and gentle ness of character with a sweetness of dis.
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