... to Hume's Hiftory of England,. , as it was read to them by a little orphan girl fhe had herfelf inftructed. Here fome notable houfewife, who may, peradventure, chance to fit long enough at a time to catch the laft paragraph as it is read by fome of... Memoirs of Modern Philosophers ... - الصفحة 106بواسطة Elizabeth Hamilton - 1801عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Elizabeth Hamilton - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 1152
...the family ceconomy for the day, was quietly fcated at her work with her aunt and fifter, liftening to Hume's Hiftory of England, as it was read to them...by a little orphan girl fhe had herfelf inftructed. riere fome notable houfewife, who may, perad venture, chance . to fit long enough at a time to catch... | |
| Adam Fox, Daniel Woolf - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...Harriet is described 'quietly seated at her work with her aunt and sister, listening to Hume's History of England as it was read to them by a little orphan girl she had herself instructed'. >9 More famously, in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park the child Fanny Price... | |
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