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Rh her soul, by what way he thought best, a deep and rigorous conception and resentment of those most violent torments, which he in his infinite love, suffered for her on the cross, to the end, that she might even be forced to return to him a suitable affection."

"Yet in making these requests, she expressed a perfect resignation (as to the manner) to his heavenly will. The only graces that she did, and might, and so may we, desire absolutely, without any condition, were a true and spiritual hatred and contempt of herself, and of all worldly or sensual contentments; a perfect sorrow and compunction for sin past, and a cordial love and reverence of Almighty God. These were the gifts she desired; and as for the means of procuring those graces, she proposed the best to her seeming; yet so, as being assured that Cod knew what was best for her, she left them to his divine pleasure."

Of this nun, who appears to have possessed an amiable and refined understanding, though wild and misguided by her solitary life, we have no farther account. Female Worthies.

lady, well known for her mathematical knowledge, particularly by a work called, Le Quadricide, ou Paralogisme prouvé Geometriquement dans la Quadrature de M. de Causans, 14to. 1755. Letters on the French Nation.

K. KHAULA,