Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts (1854) (14763057991)

Identifier: chamberssmiscell1854cham (find matches)
Title: Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Chambers, William, 1800-1883 Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
Subjects: Tracts
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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MONGST those whose self-denying hero-ism, in the midst of perils and personalprivations, have shed a glory over femaledevotedness, Flora Macdonald has deserv-edly obtained a high meed of applause.This lady was the daughter of Macdonaldof Milton, in South Uist, one of the re-moter of the Western Islands of Scotland. She was bornabout the year 1720, and received the usual limited educationof the daughter of a Highland gentleman of that age. Itconferred little school - learning, and scarcely any accomplish-ments, but included good moral principles, and the feelings andmanners of a lady. When Flora was a girl, her father died,leaving his estate to a son. The widowed mother, being stillyoung and handsome, was soon afterwards wooed by Mr Mac-donald of Armadale, in the Isle of Skye; but she long resistedall his solicitations. At length he resorted to an exj^edientwhich was not then imcommon in the Highlands, and was atNo. 50. 1 FLOHA MACDONALB. a later period more common in Ireland—he forc