 | English essays - 1839 - 722 pages
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scotish people, they breathe a spirit, at... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1839 - 444 pages
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit, at... | |
 | Anne Katharine Curteis Elwood - Authors, English - 1843 - 368 pages
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...in her own country, derive their success from the manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1845 - 346 pages
...she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her writings," they add, " deservedly popular in her own country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit at... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 pages
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...writer herself practised in such an eminent degree." Some idea of the domestic toils and trials of Mrs. Grant may be gathered from the fact that she had... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...in her own country, derive their success from the manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson - Scotland - 1855 - 728 pages
...productions are thus characterized by Sir Walter Scott, a judge well fitted to estimate them : — " I !cr literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit at... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1855 - 958 pages
...eminent for the services which she has rendered to the cause of religion, morality, knowledge, and taste. Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...in her own country, derive their success from the manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Scotland - 1855 - 372 pages
...productions are thus characterized by Sir Walter Scott, a judge well fitted to estimate them: — " Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...simplicity and force; and uniformly bear the stamp of n virtuous and courageous mind, recommending to the reader that patience and fortitude which the writer... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1870 - 650 pages
...productions are thus characterized by Sir W alter Scott, a judge well fitted to estimate them: — "Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune...country, derive their success from the happy manner in which, addressing themselves to the national pride of the Scottish people, they breathe a spirit at... | |
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Her literary works, although composed amidst misfortune and privation, are written at once with simplicity and force ; and uniformly bear the stamp of a virtuous and courageous mind, recommending to the reader that patience and fortitude which the writer... 
