| William Oldys, Thomas Park - Great Britain - 1808 - 586 pages
...not many women, but very few men have attained thereunto? I will tell you, saith she, and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster.... | |
| William Oldys, John Malham - Europe - 1808 - 594 pages
...not many women, but very few men have attained thereunto? I will tell you, saith she, and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle, a schoolmaster.... | |
| Great Britain - 1808 - 588 pages
...not many women, but very few men have attained thereunto? I will tell you, saith she, und tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he. sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1812 - 538 pages
...p. 699. ' G ranger's Biog. Hist.— Wood's A'.Iiuni.;, vol. U.— Ucnsura Literaria, vol. V, b rated Ascham, in a visit to lady Jane in 1550, asked her...she, " and tell you truth, which, perchance, you will man-el at. One of the greatest benefits which ever God gave me, is that he sent so sharp and severe... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...philosophy, she made the following very remarkable reply : " I will teli you, and I will tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of...greatest benefits which ever God gave me is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father... | |
| Roger Ascham - Archery - 1815 - 428 pages
...women, but very few men, have attained thereunto ?" " I will tell you," quoth she, " and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster.... | |
| Thomas Bayly Howell - Trials - 1816 - 786 pages
...not any women, but very few men have attained thereunto ? I will tell you, saith sliu, and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits, that ever God «ˇowed with the gifts of nature, and preferable , gave me, is, that he sent me so »harp... | |
| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 516 pages
...attained to such perfection both in philosophy and Greek, " I will tell you," said she, '« and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster.... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1825 - 726 pages
...women, but very few men, have attained thereunto ? ' ' I will tell you,1 she replied, ' and tell you a truth which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmas* ter,... | |
| Henry Kett - English wit and humor - 1825 - 298 pages
...proficiency in so learned an author as Plato ; ' I will tell you,' said she, ' and I will tell you a truth which perchance you will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster.... | |
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