The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham
The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold
Goodliffe
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had made a just will which it was a pleasure to carry out. After 30 years of
close and intimate knowledge of, and brotherly connexion with him, I feel
there was much that was good, and as to his failings, I desire knowing and
feeling my own to be charitable towards him.
Next on the list is my beloved sister Mary, born in 1803. She was endowed
with a mind intelligent, quick at learning, and highly sensitive, enshrined
in a body interesting, but feeble and consumptive. She early manifested a
devout gentle, spirit, in sympathy with the teaching of Christ. My mother
perceiving the tendencies of her mind to intellectual pursuits, did what her
circumstances would admit, to cherish her aspirations, giving her the
advantage of a good training to fit her to be an educator of others. She
was, by her intelligence |
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