A Young Scholar's Responsibilities

I also perfectly understood English and German. This is the list of my accomplishments

at the age of seventeen; and you may conceive that my hours were fully employed in acquiring and maintaining

a knowledge of this various literature. Another task also devolved upon me, when I became the

instructor of my brothers. Ernest was six years younger than myself, and was my principal

pupil. He had been afflicted with ill health from his infancy, through which Elizabeth

and I had been his constant nurses: his disposition was gentle, but he was incapable

of any severe application. William, the youngest of our family, was yet an infant,

and the most beautiful little fellow in the world; his lively blue eyes, dimpled cheeks,