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402 FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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Mks. Cojststantia Grierson.* In Essex St...
clear-sighted to be irreligious . If Heaven had spared her life , and blessed her with healthwhich she wanted for some years before
her death , there is good , reason to think she would have made as great a fiure in the learned world as any of her sex are recorded
to have done g . . . . So little did she value herself upon her uncommon excellencethat it" adds Mrs . Barber " has often
recalled to iny mind a , fine reflection , of a French author , , that great geniuses should be superior to their own abilities . "
" Being desirous , " says George Ballard , in 1752 , " that a life so full of very remarkable particulars ( as was that of this very
excellent person ) should be better known , I procured a friend of mine and an acquaintance of Mrs . Barber ' s , to write to her to transmit
me some farther account of Mrs . Grierson , to which that gentlewoman returned a obliing answer in a letter dated at Dublin
than July , that 1747 she ; but wrote did very not an Abrid add g any gement thing of to h the er former History of coun Eng t , land more . ,
I can only add that I have been told that there are many particular circumstances of her life which , if faithfully related , would do very
great honor to the dead , and be a noble example to the living ; particularl affectionate y in useful her behavior and oblig to ing her , as husband to set , a to perfect whom she pattern was so of
, , conjugal love and duty . " Constantia Grierson's son , George Abraham , is described as " a
gentleman of uncommon learning and great wit and vivacity . " The Rev . Dr . William Maxwell , of Bath , who was introduced to Dr .
Samuel Johnson by G . A . Grierson , says that " Dr . Johnson highly respected sessed more Mr . extensive Grierson ' knowled s abilities ge , than and often any observed man of'his that years he pos he
had ever known . " "His industry , " continues Maxwell , _" was p equal hilolog to ical his talents learning , and , and he was particularl , perhaps y , excelled the best in critic every of species the age of
he lived in . " A SCRAP FROM AN OLD BLACKWOOD .
and Does We preserve any all body know them read a great with old magazines great many care peop . ? They le who generall bind y them take considerable handsomel shelvesand y
point pride out in the with long comp uniform lacency rows the that Gentleman adorn 's the Magazine ir library in intermina , - ble numbers beginning in the year 17— -something . But do the
remarkabl but owners as proofs ever y dust open of y the . a respectability They volume are ? looked Probabl of the upon famil y , not not y , which as as books they has are to been be always re in ad a , BlackwoocVs
condition to take in the before-mentioned magazine , or _, or case Fraser may _' , s be , for , and a century thus they , half are a valued century ; but , or it twent is not y-five exactl years y the , as kind the
of value that the writers of the articles expected to have put upon
402 Facts And Scraps.
402 FACTS AND SCRAPS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 402, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/42/
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