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Deprived of the Pleasures of Taste. 



— A writer in the " Cornhill Magazine " 

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 had considerable influence in forming Miss 

 Martineau's mental characteristics ; but if it 

 turned her attention to studies more or less 

 abstruse, and which are seldom pursued by 

 those of her own sex, it certainly never 

 ' hardened ' her." 



