An Essay on the learning, genius, and abilities, of the fair-sex, etc

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D. Steel, 1774 - 227 páginas
 

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Página 185 - I bear them) so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Página 179 - She died in the year 1713, at the age of 27, and was allowed, long before, to be an excellent scholar, not only in Greek and Roman literature, but in history, divinity, philosophy, and mathematics. She gave a proof of her knowledge in the Latin tongue, by her dedication of the Dublin edition of Tacitus to the Lord Carteret, and by that of Terence to his son, to whom she likewise wrote a Greek epigram.
Página 181 - ... them both. Her own language she spoke and wrote with peculiar accuracy; the French, Italian, Latin, and, it is said, Greek, were as natural to her as her own ; she not only understood them, but spoke and wrote them with the greatest freedom; she was versed likewise in Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabic, and all this while a mere child.
Página 184 - God gave me, is, that he fent me fo (harp and " fevere parents, and fo gentle a fchoolmafter ; for, when I am in prefence either " of father or mother, whether I fpeak, keep filence, fit, ftand, or go, eat, drink,
Página 185 - I do els, but learning, is ful of grief, trouble, feare, and whole mifliking vnto me : And thus my booke, hath bene fo moch my pleafure, and bringeth dayly to me more pleafure and more, that in refpect of it, all other pleafures, in very deede, be but trifles and troubles vnto me. I remember this talke gladly, both bicaufe it is fo worthy of memorie, and bicaufe alfo, it was the laft talke that euer I had, and the laft tyme, that euer I faw that noble and worthie Ladie.
Página 184 - I will tell you, and I will tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits which ever God gave me is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster.
Página 179 - Lord Carteret was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, he obtained a patent for Mr. Grierfon, her hufband, to be the King's printer, and to diftinguifh. and reward her uncommon merit, had her life inferted in it.
Página xviii - ... will not render their paradife the lefs agreeable. It remains to tell you, that the virtues which Mahomet requires of the women, to merit the enjoyment of future happinefs, are not to live in...
Página 182 - With these endowments she had so much mildness, humility, and modesty, that she set no value upon those acquisitions ; she was naturally fond of literature, and that fondness was much heightened as well by the severity of her parents in the feminine part of her education, as by the gentleness of her tutor Aylmer in this. When mortified and confounded by the unmerited chiding of the former, she returned with double pleasure to the lessons of the latter, and sought in Demosthenes and Plato, who were...
Página 182 - ... acquifitions. She was naturally fond of literature, and -that fondnefs was much heightened as well by the feverity of her parents, in the feminine part of her education, as by the gentlenefs of her tutor, Aylmer, in this : when mortified and confounded by the unmerited chiding of the former, fhe returned with double pleafure to the leflbns of the latter, and fought in Demofthenes and Plato, who were her favourite authors...

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