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Rh magnificent present, and stood godfather to her child. She painted as well at eighty as at thirty, and died aged eighty-six, in 1750. . ingenious lady, born in Ireland of a respectable, but reduced family, and the small fortune she had was swallowed up in a law suit. In this exigence she had recourse to her pen for subsistence, and compiled some part of the Annual Register.

She also wrote a novel, intituled The Hermit of Snowdon, and translated several pieces from the French. She died in 1797.

" a most sublime and extensive genius, which shines forth in her writings on physical, moral, and political subjects. But what she is most to be praised for is her new physiological and medical system; in which, contrary to all the ancients, she maintains that it is not the blood which nourishes our bodies, but that white juice, which issuing from the brain, pervades all the nerves; and to distempers in this vital lymph she