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250 spoke many languages with facility, understood rhetoric, philosophy, and mathematics, and wrote well in prose and verse. Her present works consist of a Poetical Selection, a Volume of Comedies, &c.

great reputation, has left a collection of letters, which are much admired.

the most exquisite beauty, added a fine and cultivated taste. She spoke her own language with elegance and correctness, and, at the same time, wrote and spoke Latin with the same facility. Some of her letters in this language are still extant.

father was a dissenting Minister at Bath, whose circumstances made it necessary that she should be brought