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Female Biography: Or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All ... - Page 507
by Mary Hays - 1803
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ..., Volume 8

Biography - 1762 - 668 pages
...young gentle" woman lately dead, who in a remote country retirement, ** without any afliftance but that of a good library, and *' without omitting the daily care due to a large family, " not only perfectly acquired the feveral languages here " made tife of, but the good morals and principles contained...
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The Female Worthies: Or, Memoirs of the Most Illustrious Ladies of All Ages ...

Women - 1766 - 290 pages
...of a young gentlewoman lately dead, who, in a remote country retirement, without any affiftance, but that of a good library, and without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the feveral languages here made ufe of, but the good morals and principles contained...
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Female Biography; Or Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women ..., Volume 5

Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 542 pages
...8vo. London, me. A dedication to Caroline, princess of Wales, was prefixed to them by lord Molesworth, the father of Mrs. Monk, who speaks of the poems as...without omitting the daily care due to a large family, Jiot only acquired the several languages here made use of, but the good morals and principles contained...
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The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 22

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...London, 1716, 8vo. A dedication to Caroline, princess of Wales, was prefixed to them by lord Molesworth, the father of Mrs. Monk, who speaks of the poems as...here made use of, but the good morals and principles containud in those books, so as to put them in practice, as well during her life and languishing sickness,...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 41

England - 1837 - 886 pages
...of the leisure hours of a young gentlewoman lately deceased ; who, in a remote country retirement, without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the several languages here made use of (Latin, Italian, Spanish, and French), but...
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Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged

Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1827 - 476 pages
...remote country retirement, without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the several languages* here made use of,...the good morals and principles contained in those hooks, so as to put them in practice, as well during her life and languishing sickness, as the hour...
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Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged

Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1825 - 472 pages
...of the leisure hour* of a young gentlewoman lately deceased ; who, in a remote country retirement, without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the several languages* here made use of, but the good morals and principles contained...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 41

Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...of the leisure hours of a young gentlewoman lately deceased ; who, in a remote country retirement, without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the several languages here made use of (Latin, Italian, Spanish, and French), but...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...of the leisure hours of a young gentlewoman lately deceased ; who, in a remote country retirement, without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the several languages here made use of (Latin, Italian, Spanish, and French,) but...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...of the leisure hours of a young gentlewoman lately deceased ; who, in a remote country retirement, without omitting the daily care due to a large family, not only perfectly acquired the several languages here made use of (Latin, Italian, Spanish, and French,) but...
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