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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: twentieth year; and went to reside at Bolton, near Had- dington. Her time was now much more at her own command. Her taste for reading returned in all its strength, and received rather a more methodical direction. Some hours of every forenoon were devoted by her to this employment; and, in the evening, I was in the habit of reading to her, books chiefly of criticism and belles lettres. Among other subjects of her attention, the philosophy of the human mind became a favourite study with her; and she read Dr. Reid's works with uncommon pleasure. She renewed her acquaintance with our best historians. Her ear was pecu-. liarly gratified with the music of Dr. Robertson's style; and she used often to say, that she looked upon his account of the first voyage of Columbus as the most attractive and finished narrative which she had ever perused. She added a little knowledge of German to her acquisitions in language. She repeatedly began, but as often relinquished, the study of mathematics. Where the address to the intellect was direct and pure, she was interested and successful. But a single demonstration by the reductio ad absurdum, or by applying one figure to another in order to show their identity, never failed to estrange her for a long time from the subject. She could never divest herself of an idea that the first had more of the trick of argument than was worthy of pure science; and the second she despised as a mere mechanical operation. Her reading was useful to her rather as strengthening her general habits of attention, than as leading to marked proficiency in any one branch of study. Her memory, not having been systematically cultivated in early life, was less powerful than her other faculties. She retained the substance of what she read, less by remembering the words ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217708517 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021770851X |
| Weight | 1.14 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.78 In |
| List Price | $25.41 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 350 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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