Courted

"How little does the situation of a courted, fashionable girl, surrounded by her admirers, and thus at liberty to give herself every impertinent air, which a vain mind,and a selfish, unfeeling heart dictate, resemble that of the unobserved, disregarded being, who night after night, follows some elderly, undistinguished chaperon through the regular round of London amusements, and, seated by her by hour after hour in dull neglect, seems at last to become a part of the bench she rests on, until reduced, perhaps, to be even envious of its insensibility!"

"And those circles to which a bon mot was the passport, could scarcely fail to be more agreeable than circles, in which, to be the most courted, it is sufficient to be the first-born."

"Now, disobedience is a self-disseverment from this mystical body—a self-subjection to the ban of the ever-blessed God—a virtual excommunication of our own spirits—a courted anathema— a forfeiture of all privileges and all graces imparted either by union with Christ or by fellowship with our brother believers."