...doubt, considerable influence in rousing her daughter's mind. She was assiduous, too, in conveying the accomplishments which she herself retained ; and...there is no other habit of her early life which tends, iu any degré e; to aocoant te the great facility ami correctness with which her subsequent compositions...

...of Burra, on the 1st of November, 1778, and educated chiefly by this parent, under whom she became a considerable proficient in music, and an excellent...and Italian scholar. From these languages she was accustomed to translate ; and this habit of her early life accounts for the great facility and correctness...

...no doubt considerable influence in rousing her daughter's mind. She was assiduous, too, in conveying the accomplishments which she herself retained ; and...with which her subsequent compositions were written." French, we may remark, might almost be accounted Mrs. Balfour's native tongue; at least, her father...

...of Ligonier, to whose charge she had early been left an orphan. Under her mother's care, she became a considerable proficient in music, and an excellent French and Italian scholar. While ye* young, she evinced a strong partiality for the perusal of works of poetry and fiction. In...