Capitolo 1
IL IS WORTH OF CEDARS;
or, The Martyr
FROM GRACE AGUILAR,
AUTHOR OF THE "HOUSE INFLUENZA", THE FRIENDSHIP" OF "DONNA, ETC.
1851
"The wild hath of the dove his/her nest--the fox his/her cavern--
Humanity their country--Israel but the grave."
BYRON.
MONOGRAPH OF THE GRACE AGUILAR.
Grace that Aguilar was born to Hackney June 2 nd 1816. You were him the more old man
child, and only daughter of Emanuel Aguilar, one of those dealers
come down by the Hebrews of Spain that, almost inside the memory of
crews, ran away from persecution in that country, and it looked for and it founded a
kindergarten in England.
The delicate frame and observable weak health in Grace Aguilar
in all life of his, it was visualized by the infancy; from the age
of three years, almost continually she was under the care of some
physician, and, from their suggestion, the months in summer annually passing
from the sea, in the hope of rousing and to naturally strengthen a
fragile constitution. This lack of physical energy was, however, in
I oppose direct to his/her mental powers that developed soon and
quickly. You learned to read with as soon as some trouble, and when once
that knowledge was earned, its answer when he/she asked what it would like her
for a present, it was "A book" invariably that, is read, king-reads,
and preserved with a care extraordinary in so young a child. With the
exception of eighteen months passed to school, his/her mother was her you sole
instructress and both his/her parents took equal delight in to direct her/it
studies, and facilitating his/her personal inspection of everybody that you/they were
curious and interesting in the various counties of England to that
they applied for his/her health.
From the first age of seven she started custody a diary that was
continued with scarce some intermission in all life of his. In 1825
she visited Oxford, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Worcester, Ross and Bath,
and although to that duration but nine years old, his/her father the takings to
Gloucester and the cathedrals of Worcester, and also to see a porcelain and