I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue ; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. The Quarterly Review - Página 491876Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Anna Buckland - 1882 - 548 páginas
...her, also, to be truthful and good, and many years afterwards he could say that from these principles she "never swerved in any one action or moment of her life." He brought help and happiness to her by teaching her to understand and enjoy things, of which otherwise... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 páginas
...Nottinghamshire, her mother of a lower degree ; and indeed she had little to boast of her birth. I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education,...never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 páginas
...Nottinghamshire, her mother of a lower degree ; and indeed she had little to boast of her birth. I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education,...never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 páginas
...Nottinghamshire, her mother of a lower degree ; and indeed she had little to boast of her birth. I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education,...never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1885 - 338 páginas
...Nottinghamshire, her mother of a lower degree ; and indeed she had little to boast of her birth. I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education,...never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health,... | |
| Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 páginas
...Nottinghamshire, her mother of a lower degree, and, indeed, she had little to boast in her birth. I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education...and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honor and virtue, from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 222 páginas
...This was in 1696. when his little pupil, Esther Johnson, was fifteen. Swift said of her, " I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education,...never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen ; but then grew into perfect health,... | |
| Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 páginas
...Kether Johnson ; but the sense of the passage and probability make the present pnnctua. lion preferable. had some share in her education by directing what...never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen, but then grew into perfect health,... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 páginas
...her first. He constituted himself her tutor, "directing," he snys, '-what books she should read, anil perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour...which she never swerved in any one action or moment ot her life." In 1699 Sivift went to Ireland with Lord Berkeley as private chaplain. From him he expected... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - 1889 - 636 páginas
...six years old when Swift saw her first. He constituted himself her tutor, " directing," he says, " what books she should read, and perpetually instructing...swerved in any one action or moment of her life." In 1699 Swift went to Ireland with Lord Berkeley as private chaplain. From him he expected high ecclesiastical... | |
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