SIR WILLIAM AND CAROLINE 

 HERSCHEL. 



IN" Hanover, Germany, in the year 1732, Isaac 

 Herschel and a plain, industrious girl, Anna 

 Use Moritzen, began their home life together. 

 The young man did not like the calling of his 

 father, the cultivating of the royal gardens, and 

 learned to play the oboe in the royal band. 



He became skilled in music, and, as, one after 

 another, ten children were born into the little 

 home, he taught them to play on the violin and 

 oboe, and such other branches of knowledge as he 

 possessed. After a time his health became impaired 

 with exposure in the Seven Years' War, and then he 

 earned his living by lessons in music, given to 

 scholars at his home. 



The children attended the garrison school in 

 Hanover, and learned the ordinary rudiments, 

 besides French and German. Though the father 

 sometimes copied music half the night to eke out 

 his scanty living, he spared no pains to teach them 

 all he could of his favorite art. 



The fourth son, William, born November 15, 

 1738, not only learned French and English rapidly, 

 but studied Latin and arithmetic with the teacher, 

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