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i .-.,u;illy evil result*. The ill health of 

 father, and th. ir ntraitcnod means, may help to explain 

 litth- -ill. without excusing it. 

 Up to the close of a long life she never ceased to 

 regret and reprobate the treatment to which the wan 

 t.-.l in rlnl.ih. mlike li.-r youngest 



broil i- f the blame for 



neglect 01. th-ir .... 



> I lee tod l>( \..n care and 



.. hi* lath, r, I. ut for ever 



iiiurniui. -1 at received too scanty an educa 



though I,.- had the same acliooling we all of u had 

 h.td h.-f.-tv him." 



was different with ln-r hmthrr Willifiin. 

 Han- re wan at thai time a garrison school, 



taught by a capable teacher. Master and pupil tin-i 

 \\ hat tli.- . >t li.-r wanted, were a credit 

 ip in learning. All th. chiMn n were 

 in tli.- hahit of atteii-lin- this school, from the age of 

 two to fourteen : I -MI ( 'an-liuo seems to have got litth 

 good inn i it, and at two or ev< years of age 



she would have been m i at h>m un 



UK it In -r's care. The teacher had HOUK knowledge of 



h- ini 



parted U) William Herschel all he knew of these 

 branches. French the boy also learned, as the polite 

 language of the world of civilised men, and the tongue 

 of th.- t-nrinirs nf hi and country. English is 



not mentioned among his acquirements, although 



r ..f II an \ i mi t!i n George u. of England: 

 but a King who spoke in. in! ^lish at Windsor, 



<>r none at all. would not encourage the study of it 

 in the garrison school at Hanovti i the German 



