NOTE D. 



some additions of his own at the end, and lie refers to 2d Strype s Annals 

 469. Her parental care of her two sons, Anthony and Francis, two of the most 

 extraordinary men of her time, and of any time, is, possibly, the best evidence 

 of her powers : and which was deeply felt by Francis, who, in his will, says : 

 &quot; F-or my burial I desire it may be in St. Michael s church, near St. Albans y 

 there was my mother buried.&quot; In Birch s Memoirs of the Reign of Queen 

 Elizabeth, the extraordinary vigilance used by Lady Anne in superintending 

 their conduct, long after they were adults, may be seen. 



The importance of early impressions, and, above all, of early infant educa 

 tion, can never be too strongly impressed upon the mind. The blessings atten 

 dant upon the performance of this duty, both to the child and to the parent, 

 may be seen by a few facts, and conceived by any person who thinks of the 

 sweet love of a mother for her child, and knows that &quot; Nature never said one 

 thing and wisdom another.&quot; See Cowper s Review of Schools, and see his 

 poem upon the receipt of his mother s picture. I subjoin a few instances, 

 ancient and modern, of the beneficial effects of maternal education. 



Arete, the daughter of Aristippus, the Cyrenaic philosopher, after her father s 

 death, presided over the school, and taught her son, Aristippus, philosophy, 

 Diog. Laert. L. ii. in Avistippo. 



Istrina, queen of the Scythians, wife of Aripithis, taught her son the lan 

 guage and learning of the Greeks. Herodotus and Melpomene. 



What heart has not glowed at the memory of the mother of the Gracchi. 



The devout Pilcheria, mother of the emperor Arcadius, when not fifteen years 

 of age, governed with discretion. She tended both the moral and intellectual 

 education of her son Theodosius. 



Zenobia Suidas, the celebrated queen of Palmyra, was acquainted with the 

 Greek, Roman, and Egyptian languages, and instructed her sons Herennianus 

 and Timolaus. Pollio Trebellius et Fulg. Lib. viii. cap. iii. 



Amalasunta succeeded, with her son Athalaric, to her father Theodoric, in 

 the kingdom of Italy. She educated her son after the Roman manner, and 

 reared in him his father s virtues. She was acquainted with all the languages 

 that were spoken in the Roman empire. Jo. Magnus, 1. 10. 



Hooker, about the eighteenth year of his age, fell into a dangerous sickness, 

 which lasted two months ; all which time his mother, having notice of it, did in 

 her hourly prayers as earnestly beg his life of God, as Monica, the mother of 

 St. Augustine, did that he might become a true Christian ; and their prayers 

 were both so heard as to be granted : which Mr. Hooker would often mention 

 with much joy, and as often pray that he might never live to occasion any 

 sorrow to so good a mother; of whom, he would often say, he loved her so 

 dearly that he would endeavour to be good even as much for hers as for his own 

 sake. Walton s Lives. 



The mother of George Herbert, in the time of her widowhood, being desirous 

 to give Edward, her eldest son, such advantages of learning, and other educa 

 tion, as might suit his birth and fortune, and thereby make him more fit for the 

 service of his country, did, at his being of a fit age, remove from Montgomery 

 Castle with him to Queen s College, and having provided him a fit tutor, she 

 commended him to his care&amp;gt; yet she continued there with him, and still kept 

 him in a moderate awe of herself, and so much under her own eye, as to see 

 and converse with him daily. Walton s Life of George Herbert. 



Professor Gregory, who invented the reflecting telescope, in the twenty-fourth 

 year of his age, was instructed by his mother in the elements of mathematics. 



Kant, the celebrated metaphysician, derived in part his devotional spirit from 

 the instructions of maternal piety. 



Gray the poet was the only child of his mother who survived. The rest died 

 in their infancy from suffocation produced by a fulness of the blood : and he 

 owed his life to a memorable instance of the love and courage of his mother, 

 who removed the paroxysm which attacked him by opening a vein with her own 

 hand. To her exertions it was owing, that when her home was rendered 

 unhappy by the cruelty of her husband, our poet was indebted for his education. 

 Mason records that Gray seldom mentioned his mother without a sigh. 



