The Life of Lord Stratford De Redcliffe Author:Stanley Lane-Poole Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Jet. 1-7 Mrs. Canning 5 mental vigour and much of her unusual bodily energy. Her strong sense, her admirable combination of practical wisdom and earnest piety... more », her keen intellectual qualities, shine out from the long series of correspondence which she always kept up with her migratory son. Through all her troubles, her poverty, her dependence ; in the solitude which the marriage or death of children necessarily brought upon her; in the anxiety which she endured when they were exposed to the chances of war or the perils of the Plague—she always kept a brave heart and the bright spirits of that Irish nature of which she was so proud. Her beauty and her character are alike luminous in Bomney's delightful picture. The Stratford Canning of this history was born at his father's house of business in St. Clement's Lane, in the heart of the city of London, N-ovftOlb.SŁ...4.,V'l§Ov. "n 'ose days great people used to soend. their .9iihi(jswith merchants who were not ashamed to live.over, tiiey? rojftcsj and Fox and Sheridan were among Mrs. Ga'im'ingir'vihWs. When the father died she took a cottage at Wanstead, and there the children had their home until rea'dy Tio ta"1e thpir own flight in life. Stratford was sent to a neigkhouKin'g.aame's school at the age of four, and at about six went to Mr. Newcome's school at Hackney. His recollections of these early days are recorded in the autobiographical Memoirs which he wrote nearly fourscore years later. Memoibs. Hard in those days were rudiments of instruction at any considerable school, and awfully rough the manners of the boys. The smaller ones were neither more nor less than slaves. Children of tender age were often sent on a cold November evening to pilfer turnips from a neighbouring field, and many were the logs of firewood or ke...« less