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' 400 FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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MKS. COjSTSTANTIA GRIERSON.* In Essex St...
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amd enjoyment lighting up paths which are perhaps often over- ' and shadowed all that by car lends e and charin over-toil to our ? It hom is essentiall e is a blessing y a domestic . Whilst festival the , ¦
head is planning and the hand executing some pleasant surprise for _? _3 rother or parentthe heart is expanding with kindly emotion , and .
family ties grow stronger , for this little gilding of the links . And do you think our generous friend , Volunteer Bull , do you
think tlie curate's gentle wife , will sleep any the less sweetly for the echoes of those joyful laughs which will haunt . their dreams
this Valentine's Eve ?
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Mks. Cojststantia Grierson.* In Essex St...
MKS . _COjSTSTANTIA GRIERSON . * In Essex Streetat the sign of the " Two Bibles" near the Custom .
Housewasfrom , about 1709 the Printing , Office of George Grierson , , among , the productions , of whose press was the first _,
edition of " Paradise Lost , " published in Ireland , ( 1724 , ) and a translation of Dupin ' s " Ecclesiastical History , " issued 1722—24 ,
in three folio vols ., esteemed by bibliographers as the best and most valuable edition of this work in English .
Of Grierson ' s wife , Constantia , regarded as one of the most learned scholars of her age , the maiden name has not been
recorded . She is stated to have been a native of Kilkenny , and the earliest notice of her is the following , left us by Mrs . Pilkington , to
whose father , Dr . Van Lewen , an eminent Dublin physician , she was brought in her eighteenth yearto be instructed in the
, obstetric science : —" She was mistress of Hebrew , Greek , Latin , and French ; understood the mathematics as well as most men :
and what made these extraordinary talents yet more surprising . wasthat her parents were poorilliteratecountry people ; so that
her , learning appeared like the , gift poured , out on the Apostles , of speaking all languageswithout the pains of study ; or , like the
, intuitive knowledge of angels ; yet inasmuch as the power of miracles has ceased , we must allow the usual human means for .
such great and excellent acquirements ; and yet in a long friendship . and familiarity with herI could never obtain a satisfactory .
, account from her on this head ; only she said , ' she had received _^ _ome little instruction from _, / the minister of the parish , when she
could spare time from her needlework , to which she was closely * From Gilbert ' s " History of the City of Dublin , " vol . ii . pp . 155—160 .. _Dublin 1859
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/40/
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