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The fact was, she was well-educated, as education was then, and had the acquirements which are common in every house among the educated classes of English society. She was born in 1792, and passed her early years chiefly on her father's estates of Halnaby, near Darlington, Yorkshire, and Seaham, in Durham.
Its mines, the productions of its soil and its manufactures, the shades of its expressive, copious, and most philosophical language, from the classical idiom of Saxony, to the comparatively rude and uncultivated dialect of Austria, the effects on manners, habits, feeling, and intellectual and moral acquirements, produced by the different species of the Christian religion professed, and the different forms of government prevailing in its different parts; all these circumstances, and others of a more evanescent and subtle, though still an influential nature, render Germany a vast field for enquiry and observation.
The illness and death of our eldest girl threw Somerville and me into the deepest affliction. She was a child of intelligence and acquirements far beyond her tender age. The following letter was written by her to my grandfather on this occasion. LONDON, October, 1823. I never was so long of writing to you, but when the heart is breaking it is impossible to find words adequate to its relief.
Le Seur, the naturalist, and fellow traveller of Peron, in his voyage to the Austral regions, is still here. The suavity of manners, and the scientific acquirements of this gentleman, command the friendship and esteem of all those who have the pleasure of his acquaintance.
In Michaelmas Term of 1821 he was called to the bar of Upper Canada, and for some years thereafter he appears to have practised the two professions of law and medicine concurrently. His great acquirements and pleasant manners made him a favourite with all classes of the people, and caused him to be regarded as a genuine acquisition to the district in which he resided.
As I tell Eliza I was not blest as she is at the age of two-and-twenty, in knowing a clergyman who unites all that is great and admirable in intellect with the highest spiritual gifts. I am no contemptible judge of a man's acquirements, and I assure you I have tested Mr. Tryan's by questions which are a pretty severe touchstone.
The character, in fact the manners and the talents of Salvator Rosa came out in strong relief, as opposed to the servile deportment and mere professional acquirements of the herd of artists of all nations then under the protection of the Medici. The Tuscan nobility, in imitation of the court, and in the desire to possess Salvator's pictures, treated him with singular honor.
How far his sense of injury biassed his judgments as to the acquirements of his protégé, I cannot say; but a cruise or two before I had happened to hear from eye-witnesses of Bobby's appearance in public after his restoration as first lieutenant in charge of the deck. On the occasion in question he was to exercise the whole crew at some particular manoeuvre.
The patience, tact, and enthusiasm which he brought to his responsible educational duties were worthy of all admiration and those young Chiefs who had the benefit of his guidance will compare most favourably both in acquirements and manners with any students trained under the most favourable conditions in the colleges of British India.
Age, capacity, acquirements, person, features, hair, complexion, all, all are different from this girl's." "And pray of what kind may they be?" "I cannot portray them in words but yes, I can: The creature whom I shall worship: it sounds oddly, but, I verily believe, the sentiment which I shall feel for my wife will be more akin to worship than any thing else.
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