text:  And if (after the model of the emperor Marcus Aurelius) I should return thanks to Providence for all the separate blessings of my early situation these four I would single out as chiefly worthy to be commemorated--that I lived in the country; that I lived in solitude; that my infant feelings were moulded by the gentlest of sisters not by horrid pugilistic brothers; finally that I and they were dutiful children of a pure holy and magnificent church