 Pilkington 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...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 339by Alexander Chalmers - 1814Full view - About this book
 | Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | 1807 - 552 pages
...Grierson answered, "that she 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." She wrote an Abridgement of the History of England. There are many particular circumstances of her... | |
 | Mary Hays - Women - 1807 - 528 pages
...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,"... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | Ireland - 1821 - 754 pages
...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... | |
 | Ireland - 1821 - 670 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Anecdotes - 1826 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 418 pages
...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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