| Mary Hays - 1803 - 520 Seiten
...enquired of her where she had gained this prodigious knowledge j she replied, modestly, that when she could spare time from her needle-work, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish. " She wrote elegantly," says... | |
| Mary Hays - 1807 - 528 Seiten
...inquired of her where she had gained this prodigious knowledge; she replied, modestly, that when she could spare time from her needle-work, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she hfljl received some little instruction from the minister of the parish. " She wrote elegantly,"... | |
| 1814 - 510 Seiten
...Grierson said, that " she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish, when she could spare time from her needle-work, to which she...were in the conversation of this female philosopher." Her son, who was also his majesty's printer at Dublin, and instructed by her, was a man of uncommon... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 510 Seiten
...TOl. XXIX. — Xoreri. — ?ax!i Oncraast. could spare time from her needle-work, to which she wa$ closely kept by her mother." Mrs. Pilkington adds,...piety was not inferior to her learning ; and that som* of the most delightful hours she herself had ever passed were in the conversation of this female... | |
| 1821 - 754 Seiten
...having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish. She wrote elegantly (says... | |
| 1821 - 670 Seiten
...having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish. She wrote elegantly (says... | |
| 1829 - 600 Seiten
...having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needle-work to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of her parish. She wrote elegantly, (says... | |
| 1824 - 452 Seiten
...having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needlework, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish. She wrote elegantly (says... | |
| Reuben Percy - 1826 - 440 Seiten
...having inquired of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spare time from her needle-work, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish. She wrote elegantly (says... | |
| 1826 - 418 Seiten
...of her where she gained this prodigious knowledge, she modestly replied, that when she could spnre time from her needle-work, to which she was closely kept by her mother, she had received some little instruction from the minister of the parish. She wrote elegantly (says... | |
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