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XX. CASES RATED AT AI IQ 160 to 170. Part 2 · Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses

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Section thirty three of Genetic Stays of Genius, Volume two, The Early Mental
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Traits of three hundred Geniuses by Katharine Cox. This is a LibriVox according all
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libervox accordings in the public domain. For more information, a volunteer, please
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visit LibriVox hat Orgue recorded by Leon Harvey, Chapter twenty. Kate is rated
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at ai i Q one hundred sixty two one hundred seventy Part two. Christoph
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Martin Wayland seventeen thirty three eighteen thirteen, a German poet and author ai Q
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one hundred sixty ai Q one hundred sixty one. Family standing. Whyland's grant
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grandfather was a man of consequence and property and the mayor of his city.
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The grandfather and father were both village pastors, the latter and Orthodox Pietist.
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The father was interested in science and philosophy. Wayland's mother, daughter of a
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major in the Baden family and granddaughter of an Apothecarian architect, was a lively,
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witty and illigant lady. Two development wage seventeen one interests. Weyland as
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a child was serious minded and did not care for fools sports. From his
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mother, he learned love of cleanness, and preferred to go hungry rather than
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muddy himself by getting the pennies for the bake earth that he dropped in a
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dirty puddle. He loved the beauty of natural surroundings. In the patistic Madigburd
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school, he was affected by a mystical religious atmosphere. At fifteen, he
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became a materialist for a time, believing nothing without scrutiny and proof. He
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even doubted the existence of God, and this cost him may sleepers knights in
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tears. The elder Wayland had planned for his son to study theology, but
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partly because of the boy's enthusiasm for unorthodox views, he finally decided on law
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as a profession for him. Two education. The boy's first teacher was his
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father, who taught him to read and write when he was three, began
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Latin with him some time before he was six, and also developed in him
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a love of science. At home, the boy had to learn the Bible
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and Hymnal almost by heart. At thirteen and a half, and before going
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to the famous Klosterbergen school near Magdeburg, Weyland had studied Latin, Greek,
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Hebrew, mathematics, logic and history. Under his father and other teachers.
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He had also learned to draw. Three schools standing in progress. Wyland's teacher,
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the fat Little Rector, was horrified upy the ten year olds presumptuous criticisms
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of Virgil and Horace, and two years later the boy understood his Horace better
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than did his instructor. At Magburg, Wyland made good progress in literuture,
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and was especially noted for his achievement in Hebrew and Latin. He made good
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German magical translations from Cicero, history and geography were zealously followed four friends and
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associates. At thirteen, Wyland fell in and out of love, whether fifteen
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or post girl who sang folk songs prettily. At Magburg, one teacher especially
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understood him as his second father. To him, while on his holidays at
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Erfurt, a witty, optimistic relative doctor balmer Coorovetti's tendency to wide reading and
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critical thought, the boy was always fond of association with his elders. At
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sixteen, while I became engaged to his cousin Sophiel, a brilliant, charming
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girl two years his senior, whose interest and encouragement spurned into write day nature
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der Dinge published two years later. Five reading. As a child, Wideland
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was required to read daily in Scravers, Selinschats and doing lent in Ramback's Considerations
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on the Passion. At eight, he read Nepos's Life with fiery enthusiasm and
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devoured the works of Kotshed. At Tenny began to read Virgil and Horace.
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From thirteen to fifteen he studied Livy, Tenants and Virgil, and with special
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interest Cicero, Sinophons, Soro, Paddi, and Socrates. Memorabilia of more
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modern works those of Brooks, the philosophical Alexekonoschnieder, volumes of Dale and Voltaire.
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These in secret, Bretginger, Hailo and Bodmer were read between the boys
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eleventh and sixteenth year and fifteen he read The Tatler Spectator and Gharian, as
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well as Don Quixote, and became acquainted for the first time with Klopstock's Messias,
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studying it with greater enthusiasm than he had missed out on the previous War
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six reduction achievement C. Two four seven evidences of precocity. Wyland's first love
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at the age of one was his ugly nurse, and his second was his
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mother. His courlous recollection includes a clear picture of the flowery meadows of his
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birthplace and a definite memory of a young pastor who took him before he was
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three for a walk. Let him Gather Yellow Blossoms a i q On hundred
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and sixty Relieve Koschet at appoint seventy five three, developed from seventeen to twenty
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six. At seventeen, Wyland went to Tubingen on a scholarship, but finding
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that the lectures were not to his taste and that at ten this required too
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much valuable time, he did not even register at the university, staying instead
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in his room, where he read and wrote poetry. He studied Leabnits and
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Boile, read Lucretius and Anti Lucretius by Polinac and Pope's raper The Lock,
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and on these modeled his own work Die Nature Dordinge, a didactic poem he
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sent to doctor Meyer in Switzerland, who was delighted with it and had it
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printed. His second poem, In Praise of Love, written in flowery musical
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Alexandreams, contains the whole philosophy of the seventeen year old author. His appearance
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was greater with enthusiasm. His next poem, an epic Hermann, although favorably
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criticized by Bodmo, the author decided to revise, but other interests intervened and
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are remained unfinished. The next year, several poems were written in Alexandrin's unrhymed
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envious eximeters and free verse or contributing to an anatomy of love and showing that
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the author has studied literature as well as his own heart. Wishing to hate
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in the time when he might marry his sopigk he thought of becoming a school
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teacher. No position offered, and in nineteen he gave up this scheme for
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a time and went to Zurich to visit the poet Bodmo. A little letter
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he learned of Sophia's engagement to another. His grief was poured out in a
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series of poems, three hymns, two odes, and a number of other
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works, largely or religious subjects. His authorship of a plan for an educational
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institution, published anonymously, was recognized because his style was already widely known.
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In the meantime, the Youth h twenty was fettered in Zurich, as a
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poet of distinction. He read and studied, and made many friends among literary
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people. Cyrus and the successful play Johannah Gray are his most important works of
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the period. At twenty five, Finland left Zurich and went to Burn,
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where he had accepted a teaching appointment ai Q on hundred and sixty relaid koshet
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at appoint sum five. John Quincy Adams seventeen sixty seven to eighteen forty eight,
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the sixth President of the United States ai Q one undred sixty five ai
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Q one hundred and sixty five one. Family standing. John Quincy Adams's father
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was John Adams c. Page two hundred seventy three. For paternal ancestry.
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The mother, Abigail Smith, came of Puritan stock and numbered among her forebearers
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men and women of strong character and a marked ability, including a distinguished legislator
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and a noted clergyman. Abigail herself was a woman of striking personality and superior
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talents, whose delicate health had prevented her from receiving more than a slight education.
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Two develop at twenty seventeen one interests. At the age of seven,
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John A. Quincy heard the battle Lecus of Bunker Hill, saw the flaming
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rumen of Charlestown, and was deeply impressed by the call of patriotism. His
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mother taught him to repeat daily after the Lord's prayer the Ode of Collins on
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the patriot Warriors, verses, which he never forgot. He was characteristic of
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the serious boy that he was vexed with himself at the age of ten,
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because his thoughts were running after birds, eggs, play and trifles two education.
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In his early years as well as latter, the boy learned much by
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fortunate association. His mother exercised great authority over him, as she was his
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first teacher. Three young law students taught with him and gave him practical assistance
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during his earlier school years. The trend of his thoughts of this periods shown
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by an inquiry in a letter to his father written when he was ten,
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in which he asked vice as to how he should proportion his studies and his
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play. During a first visit aboard. At the age of eleven, Adams
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entered school in Passy, near Paris, where French Latin dancing, fencing,
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music and drawing were taught. The next year, he and his brother Charles
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attended an ancient Letten school in Amsterdam, spending the vacations with their father and
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under his directions, studying Greek at breakfast and euclared supper. At thirteen,
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young Adams spent five months at the University of Leiden, where, confined himself
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little to the regular routine, he worked forward independently. Lettery spent more than
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a year in Saint Petersburg's studying and reading by himself, as there were no
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schools to attend, and beginning at this time the study of German three schools
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standing in progress. At Passey, Adams gained great fluence in French. At
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Amsterdam he had an excellent master in Latin and Greek, who was pleased with
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him. At his brother At this time he transcribed a Greek grammar of his
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master's composition, and also treaties on Roman antiquities. Four friends and associates.
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During prolonged absence of his father, John became his mother's confidential companion. He
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was much with older people, both at home and latter when accompanying his father
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on missions abroad. Five Reading his eleventh year, John Quincy's pleasure and interest
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were already developed, for at this time he requested a blank book in which
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to keep recorder of the most remarkable occurrences he met with in his reading.
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At the same period, he reports studied a third volume of Smollett. On
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his trip to Russia age fourteen, he read volunteers description of Saint Petersburg and
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grave works of history like those of Hume and Robinson. He translated several of
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cissaoserations and transcribed favorite passages from the most noted of the English poets. Six
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production achievement on shipboard. When returning to America aged twelve, Ams taught the
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French Ambassador of English, astonishing his distinguished pupil by his knowledge and mastery of
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linguistics. Three months later he began his famous journal, which was thereafter continued
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throughout his life. INA's earliest notes and observations show maturity of thought and interest.
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At the age of fourteen, young Adams acted as Dana's private secretary an
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interpreter on a mission to Russia, and two years later he became one of
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his father's secretaries during the peace negotiations at Paris seventeen eighty three. At the
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age of fifteen, the young diplomat alone made a six months journey from Saint
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Petersburg to Paris, face Stockholm and Copenhagen, and an a lengthy letter describing
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the journey discusses intelligently such topics as a treatment of strangers in Sweden, the
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policy of King Denmark and its government, Hamburg and its commerce, and the
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wine sellers of Bremen. Extracts from his diary showed that John Quincy was,
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at seventeen a careful observer, a sober critic, endowed with balanced rational judgment
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seven evidences of precocity C two six ai i Q one ndred and sixty five
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without the coach of data point A two three development from seventeen to twenty six.
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At the age of eighteen, John Quincy Adams returned to America out of
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spending six months in preparatory study at Haverhill, who was admitted to hide in
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the junior class. He took up the study of languages, mathematics, natural
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philosophy, and metaphysics, and engaged in forensic disputations. He soon attained sufficient
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distinction to be chosen by his class as one of four honorary thesis collectors.
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After less than two years in residence, Adams was graduated with honor, and
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he delivered at the commencement exercises an oration of the importance and necessity of public
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faith to the well being of a government. From twenty to twenty three he
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studied law and new Boyport with an eminent jurist, Theophilus Parrisons, and was
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thereof admitted to the bar. The draft not dress presented to President Washington by
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the citizens and new Buryport, was prepared by Adams, then his twenty thirty
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year. Before he was twenty five, young Adams had gained fame and home
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and abroad by articles published in the Boston Sentinel in which he refuted the arguments
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of an order political writer. So able were his discussions that they were tribute
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to his father, then Vice President of the United States AIQ under sixty five
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Rell Live coasteral Debt appointed two. Henry Benjamin Constant de Repicue seventeen sixty seven
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to eighteen thirty a French political writer, orator and politician AIQ one hundred and
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sixty five AIQ one hundred and sixty one. Family standing. Constant's paternal grandfather
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was a lieutenant colonel in the Dutch Army. A religious, upright man of
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high principles. His father, a very intelligence but rather eccentric person, likewise
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held a commission in the Dutch service. The maternal grandfather was also an army
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officer. To development of age seventeen one, interests. Almost from infancy,
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Constant innvinced keen interest in intellectual matters. At the age of seven he began
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to dream of literary fame. He really displayed uncommon musical talent, and is
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said that had he taken enough interest in music, he could have become a
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great master. From the age of fourteen, he developed a taste for gambling
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and other forms of racishness, for which his previous upbringing more than sufficiently accounts.
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Two. Education, Constant was first placed under the care of a tutor
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of the age of five. His teacher, though erratic and violent, must
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have had some ability, for he conceived and executed the novel project of teaching
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his pupil Greek, while leading the boy to believe that he was himself inventing
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the language. In his eighth year, Benjamin was taken to Brussels by his
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father and then returned over for guidance to a former surgeon of the father's regiment.
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Under the instruction of a skillful musician. The boy now became highly proficient
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on the piano. His tutor, former surgeon, was however, discovered to
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have been coome involved in a scandal, and so after a brief stay at
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the home of his music teacher, the lad, now nine years of age,
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was consigned to a French lawyer. This personal term proved to be just
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such a character as the Brussels surgeon. He taught the boy nothing. At
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the age of twelve, Constance left the home of his third tutor, convinced
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for the first time that the people who had been charged with his instruction were
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themselves very ignorant and very immoral men. The older Conson removed his son to
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Switzerland and there entrusted him to the care of an unflogged monk who had escaped
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from his monastery. And at this man's instruct Constant made fair progress during the
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ensuing year. At the age of thirteen, he was enrolled at Oxford,
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but his father soon perceived that he was still too young to benefit by the
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opportunities offered in English university life. Accordingly, an English tutor was procured,
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under whose charge the boy remained for over a year in Switzerland. And Holland.
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Then, after some temporary instruction from still another master, Constant, aged
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fourteen, was enrolled in the University of Erlingen. Introduction at the court to
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the mark Grave of Bayreuth led to participation in dissipations which interfered with the pursuit
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of study, and so the elder Conson eventually took his son, aged fifteen
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three fourths, to Edinburgh and enrolled him at the university, where he remained
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in residence for eighteen months. The first twelve of these made the most pleasant
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years of his life. Workers fashiable among the young men at Edinburgh, and
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a Constant formed several very close connections with men who later became famous. Three
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schools stadium progress. We find Constant at the age of ten, rushing to
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his grandmother that he has learned Latin, a Greek, and all that one
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has to know at the University of Erlingen. He since we have made fairly
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satisfactory progress, and he was industrious during his first year at Edinburgh. See
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also two five and seven. Four friends and associates in the cause of his
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wanderings from contrary to country, from Tudor to Tudor, and from university to
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university, Constant made many friends, unfortunately not all of the highest character.
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He convinced as early as his tenth through eleventh year a precocious interest in the
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opposite sex se also two two five. Reading. At nine, Conston wrote
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his grandmother that he was reading Roman history in addition to Plinys Seneca, Cicerowen
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Homer, whose poetry I love, and who amuses me while giving me great
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ideas. At the same age, during his brief stay at the home of
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his music master c. Two two, he discovered in the neighborhood a library
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which contained all the novels in the world and all the irreligious works then so
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much in the fashion he says, I used to read for eight or ten
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hours a day everything which came to hand, from the works of La Maitri
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to the novels of Crebillon, and my head and my eyes have felt the
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effects of it all my life. Six production achievement letters from Constant to his
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grandmother, written from the boy's tenth year onward, are preserved. The acopious
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gossipingions sparkling with precocious cleverness. Between the ages of seven and thirteen, the
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boy wrote at least eight productions which the titles have been preserved, including a
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prayer, a tragedy, a moral meditation, a pastoral and unfinished heroic romance
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in five cantos entitled The Cavaliers, the two last mentioned a work composed to
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the age of twelve. Before he was twelve, Benjamin wrote his grandmother that
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between times he was composing an opera, both words and music. He continued,
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it will be very beautiful, and I'm not afraid of its beaning,
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hissed. Seven. Evidence is of precocity. One of Constant's cousins afterwards wrote
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of him his infancy caused much disturbance, as yet an inflammable disposition, and
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showed a precocious development which demand a careful guidance. When his burning activity was
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well directed, he succeeded in anything he tried, and success pleased him immensely.
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At the age of seven, he already learned to be famous, and
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talked to his father and grandmother very seriously about his works, science, and
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his occupations. Before he was eight, he could play a difficult sonata on
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the piano, and at nine he could read anything, i e. Any
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music at sight. Even his earliest letters to his grandmother display a rare ability
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Silso two two and six ai i q One hundred and sixty five relived coach
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of Detta pointet two three. Development from seventeen to twenty six. Young constant
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eight seventeen and a half, weighed with heavy gambling depths, left Edinburgh and,
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after some weeks in London, arrived in Paris, where he became acquainted
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with a dissolute Englishman and was soon again evolved in debt and fully recalled by
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his father to Brussels, and thence in consequence of a love affair, to
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Switzerland. He began to apply himself to writing a history of polytheism, but
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ignorance and laziness precluded the production of more than a few lines. Continued love
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affairs became a further load on his pen. His father finally appeared and moved
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the young man to Paris. Here he spent a pleasant of time. He
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was here that he learned alaison with a woman twenty seven years his signior.
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He indulged another love affairs and he gambling until hearing of the approach of an
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envoy from his father, he fled to England and thence to Edinburgh. After
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voluntary exile of short duration, he returned to Paris and his elderly Charmer.
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At the age of twenty and a half, Consolate became chamberlain at the court
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of the Duke of Brunswick, where his chief occupation seems to have been as
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before indulgence inn Moors. Very shortly after, he assisted in winning the acquittal
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of his father, who had been accused of embezzling regimental funds, and so
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complete was the elder Consont's exhonoration that he was reinstated with the rank of general.
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At twenty two, Benjamin married Baroness Charam, but broke the bond five
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years later when he began his laison with Madame de Stelle and started upon his
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political career. A i Q One hund and sixty relived coach to dap points
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seventy five Gabriel Honore di Ricutier, Comte de Merrabiel seventeen forty nine to seventeen
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ninety one, the greatest orator of the French Revolution ai Q one hundred and
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sixty five AIQ one hundred and seventy five one family standing. The Mirabieau family
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belonged to the nobility. They possessed many unusual talents, but they were hot
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blooded with a streak of madness. Maribio's father was brilliant, clever, severe,
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ambitious, self confidence and vicious. His mother, whose family also belonged
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to the nobility and among whose relities were a number of insane persons, was
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indolent, slovenly, frivolous and passionate. Two development tw age seventeen one interests
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c. Two five and six two Education. At four and a half,
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Maribio's education became under a tudo. The boy progressed rapidly, and at fourteen
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his instruction was directed by a number of choice masters. His wild nature his
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madness, according to his father, was however, never more than partially concealed
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by the restraint of training. And after the difficult early years as the ugly
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duckling in a family none of whom understood him, Miribio, age fifteen,
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was sent to Versailles to be educated in the household of A M. D.
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Sigres. At the end of three months, Segreeus announced to the parents
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that he would remain the boy's jailer as long as they wish, but he
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could do nothing with him educationally, and so the youth was sent before he
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reached his sixteenth birthday to a boarding school in Paris. At the close first
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year, for reasons unstated, Maripio was to be removed in order that he
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might be submitted to more severe discipline elsewhere, but his comrades sent a deputation
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to the Marquis and secured a suspension of the sentence. Three schools stadium progress
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in his earlier school years, Maripio appears to be conspicuous for his strange behavior
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rather than for his superior intellect. It was left for a master of mathematics
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in the Paris school to distinguish him from his fellows, on account of the
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nature of his questions and the promptness which which he found the solution for a
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problem. Outside the mathematics class. However, the boy accomplished practically nothing for
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most of the regular schoolwork, failed to appeal to his imagination, and appear
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to him insipid. Four friends and associates No specific report teachers and schoolfellows of
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Paris so attached to him. See also two three five reading the mathematics teacher
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at the Paris school seeing Mirabeau, aged fifteen, totally unoccupied of those that
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he work with him, and so they came to read together Locke's essay on
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the Human Understanding. Mirabeau awakened as from a dream at the conclusion of the
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reading Cride there is the book that I needed. Six's production achievement. At
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five and a half, Maribeau was told by his tutor to write anything that
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came into his head. The composition written on this occasion is preserved and shows
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mastery of grammar, an extensive vocabulary, an arrange of sentiment far beyond his
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years. Before the age of fifteen, the boy began writing energetic verse with
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great facility, But after reading Look, he gave this up as a talent
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that had been injuries to him, servant evidence of a precocity. An extraordinary
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creature. At birth, Miribureau was huge, with a disproportionately large head and
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an ugliness that commanded attention. Two teeth were already cut when he was born.
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When this extraordinary boy was five, the father wrote of him that he
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was remarkably inquisitive and very active, and that his knowledge was a talk of
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all Paris. He added, however, that the tellan youth had a little
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character and required a careful supervision. He keeps us busy, but we have
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an eye on him. Surely, before he was eight, Mirabeau was confirmed.
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It was explained to him at this time that God could not make incompatible
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things, as for example, a stick that had but one end. I
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asked if a miracle was not a stick that had but one end. My
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grandmother never pardoned me for that. At night, the young prodigy was uglier
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than ever, in a marvelous manner. His mother, on one occasion,
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made some declaration to him in the name of his future wife. He replied
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that he hoped she would not look at him en visage. His mother asked
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ingeniously, where would you have her look at you? Or laughed, but
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he retorted the inside will help the outside. A severe illness at ten,
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during which the father heard the worst symptom is that he is as reasonable as
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if he were thirty years old. Reform his character from its earlier ill humor,
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baseness, and falsehood. A little later, the father wrote, this
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child, although turbulent, is gentle and facile, but of a facility that
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inclines to worthlessness. At thirteen, the boy had apparently relapsed into his earlier
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erratic ways, and the father speaks of him as this fiery, well headed
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eldest son each day more troublesome than insane. A I i q. One
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hundred and sixty five relived koshet At at point six zero three. Developed from
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seventeen to twenty six. Mirriberau, aided seventeen discovered an eulogy of the Prince
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of Conde, which was considered superior in clearness and elegance to similar productions of
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his father. At eighteen he entered the army and eu later was commissioned a
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second lieutenant, but shortly afterward he was prison for seven months for desertion.
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At the age of twenty, he was released in order to join an expedition
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to Corsca, where, although he saw very little fighting, he demonstrated nevertheless
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a genius for war. His major said that he had never known a man
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with greater talents than the Comte de de Mirabel for the profession of arms.
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If time had rendered him discreet a little letter, Mirabeau's uncle declared his nephew
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full of repudence for his past faults, and stated further that as for his
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intellect, the devil has not as much. This uncle was of the opinion
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that Mirabeau would become a very great man in almost any field he might choose.
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During the next two years his twenty second and twenty third, Mirabeau enjoyed
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his father's confidence and impressed his parent by the enormous amount of work he could
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accomplish. At twenty two, after receiving a commissioner's captain, the youth visited
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Paris and Versailles, where he spent much time in the libraries. Strained relations
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now began to rise between father and son, and her conditions were not improved
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by the Lattic's marriage at twenty three. In the following year, a son
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was born and deaths began to accumulate. The Miquis obtained an order forbidding his
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son to leave the castle, and that it procured his exile. During his
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honeymoon and term of exile, Mirabeau wrote his essay on despotism and published it
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in Geneva. Afterward, he condemned this moment of daring. At the time
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its first publication, the work was so popular because of its outspoken criticisms of
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the king and the state of France that it ran through two editions and created
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a sensation not only in Switzerland but in France as well. AIQ one nd
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in seventy five. La Koshertete point seventy five. O Hold George Newbuau seventeen
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seventy six to eighteen thirty one, a celebrated German historian, philosopher, and
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critic ai Q one hundred and sixty five AIQ one hundred and seventy five one
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family standing. Although no Ibera's father belonged by birth to the Danish peasant,
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he became a lieutenant of engineers and won such distinction for his scholarship and scientific
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studies made in Egypt, Arabia and Syria as to entitle him to mention in
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the leading encyclopedias. He described as self sacrificing and unexacting and irreproachable character.
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The mother, a woman of education and refinement, was a daughter of a
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Danish royal physician. Two development to Ege seventeen one. Interests. Between his
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sixth and his eighth year, Noberg was interested in a variety of pastimes in
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which his father often participated as guide or patron. Barthold learned to draw architect's
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plans. With his father's assistants. He learned to build miniature fortifications in the
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garden, and to attack and defend them according to rule, and he began
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the study of numismatics when on Sundays he was permitted to take casts from a
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collection of seals and coins which his father had collected for the purpose. Activities
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were, however, not all of so serious a nature, for often in
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the early years neighbor children were invited during the family in the evenings, and
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then dancing to the father's violin a complement, offered diversion and exercise. Neighbour's
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poetical interest was first aroused when he was seven c. Two seven, and
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amusements he contrived at that age show a rare combination of developed poetical insight with
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accurate practical observation c. Two six. An enthusiastic interest in German literature picand
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about the same age. The boy's interest in politics developed in his twelfth year,
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and became so strong during the period of the war with Turkey that he
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repeated war intelligence allowed in his sleep. From eleven to sixteen. His interest
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extended to history, politics, literature, geography, statistics, and military science,
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and he pursued all of these studies with eager defusion to education. The
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parents, especially the father, seemed to have devoted themselves to the training and
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education there are children with an attention arrely scene. Nybreau began his fourth and
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fifth years to learn the three hours from a tutor, his sister's sharing in
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the lessons. Their father soon began to instruct the children in geography. He
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told many and vivid stories from history, especially the history of the Orient.
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He taught his son English, French, a little mathematics, and at sixth
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the Greek alphabet, and he conversed with him in all topics of the day,
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training him to make maps and to work out military engineering problems. Beginning
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at the age of seven, nyberg was taught French by Madame Bolge, a
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distinguished friend of his parents. In his eighth or ninth year, he began
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to receive private lessons from one of the masters of the gymnasium. At thirteen,
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he entered the gymnasium in the highest class, but in the following year
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the school director advised removing him from the regular school duties and off to weigh
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his self directed progress by daily private lesson of one hour. After this plan
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was adopted, the lessons were continued until Nybera was eighteen and ready to enter
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the university. His course of private study, the youth included the classics,
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modern languages, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, mathematics,
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and white reading on many subjects. At fifteen he was confirmed. The following
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year he spent three months in the Bush School of Commerce in Hamburg. Thereafter
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he devoted much time to collating manuscripts sent him for the purpose by two distinguished
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scholars, Monteux and Heine, the latter of whom was so impressed with the
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ability of the young scholar that he wished to assume the direction of his studies.
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Three schools standing in progress, the neighbor learned rapidly and with interest,
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in all subjects except mathematics. At the age of six, he learned the
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Greek alphabet in a single day and had no further trouble with it. At
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this age, so past insensitive was he that a single slip in repeating his
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lessons or any reference to his scripplings would produce an impetuous storm. At sevin
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rate, he was already superior to his tutor in the classics. I was
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known to have assisted the latter in reading beyond the day's task. In the
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gymnasium. Neighbor aged thirteen, found himself by far the youngest and by far
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the most advanced in his class. From fourteen to eight ten, he carried
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on his studies for the most part privately, assisted however, by the guidance
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of his father and the school director. In the Harburg School of Commerce,
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neighbor at sixteen was out of his element, for the noisy life irritated him.
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After a few months, he persuaded his father to permit his return home
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four friends and associates. The neighbors associated with intelligent and highly cultivated people who
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took a great interest in young Barthold Bolge, editor of the Dutchess Museum,
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who was a man of high intellect and taste and an intimate friend of the
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father. Awakened at the boy an esthetic and poetical turn of mind, the
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poet Voss Bolger's brother in law, recognized Newburgh's remarkable talents, assisted him by
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his counsel, especially in the classical studies at school. Noberg, aged thirteen,
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was a favorite with his school fellows. As sixteen him at prem several
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years his senior secretary to the Prefecture, and the two became close friends,
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for they had a common interest in the study of the political and economic conditions
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of their native province. Five Reading. In addition to the opportunities for reading
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afforded at home, Noberg had access to Bolder's library, which was rich in
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English, French and German books. During his teens, his reading was largely
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in the fields of history, politics, literature, statistics, geography and military
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science. Six. Production and achievement From a tender age, Noburg displayed literary
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and artistic ability. An early childhood, he covered such waste paper as he
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could find with original writings and drawings. Then he made copy books in which
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he wrote essays, mostly on political subjects, and still later he drew maps,
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promulgated laws, waged wars, and made little treaties of peace for an
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imaginary empire Low England. Before he was eleven, this boy he had written
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translations and interpretations of the New Testament, political phrases from the classics, sketches
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of little poems, a translation of Poncet's travels in Ethiopia, and a historical
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and geographical description of Africa. The last two were birthday presents to his father.
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At the age of twelve, he was frequently engaged in making our statistical
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tables, lists of mortality, et cetera. And he assisted his father in
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making state revenue calculations seven evidences of precocity. Before he was five years old,
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Niber had distinguied himself by his quickness and by his ready and sure apprehension
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of what he learned. He was soon head of his sister, who was
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two years of senior, and after finishing his task more quickly than she,
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he would dance roguedly round her, singing rest his suite. When work is
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done, the father quotes his friend Bouge to the effect that he does not
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know the equal of the six year old Noburau. The older Noboru realized that
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his son required unusual handling, and he was concerned to give the rapidly developing
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mind and body the requisite guidance and training. Just before he was save,
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the boy heard Bouge read Macbeth aloud to the family. Seeing Barthole's interest that
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distinguished the literary scholar took plans to make the work intelligible to his young hero.
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When the reading was finished, Neighborough sat down and wrote out the whole
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tale on seven sheets of paper, without emitting a single important point, and
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certainly without any expectation of receiving praise for it. For his father asked to
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see what he had written and showed it to me Boge. He cried for
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fear that he had not done it well. Since then he writes down everything
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of importance that he hears from his father or me. We seldom praise him,
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but just quietly tell him where he has made any mistake, and he
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avoids the fault for the future. Before he was eighted Nighberah was able to
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read any English book without help. Predictions made his twelfth year as to the
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movements of the armies in the Turkish War were usually fulfilled. For the boy's
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acquaintance with the art of war, the geography of country and the character of
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the commanders was already minute and reliable. Some letters recording his skillful pronouncements are
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still extant. The war in the Netherlands excited even greater interest and roused as
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great study. At eleven or twelve, n Ibera was often called upon in
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conversations between his father and other distinguished men to give information on geographical, statistical,
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historical, and other subjects, and this he did so ably that all
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were astonished. His statistical knowledge especially was extraordinary during his father's serious illness.
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Ibery, age sixteen, carried on the financial part of his file's official duties.
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The voy's ability to predict with the remarkable decurrecy the outcome of popular movements
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and military campaigns during the course of the French Revolution excited the astonishment of the
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eminent statesman. Count pas Bernsdorff aiq. One undred and sixty five was at
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of cotion of dat or points seventy five three development. From seventeen to twenty
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six. From his sixteenth three Saints fifth year, neber was engaged in study
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at home. At eighteen, he continued his academic pursuits at the University of
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Keel, where he found his position and surroundings more agreeable than at Hamburg,
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and where he made important friendships with doctor Hensler and Frau Heinsler, the doctor's
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daughter in law. With Professor Kramer and Reinhold, he studied history, law,
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philosophy, physics, chemistry, philology and esthetics. Of these, history
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and philology were his favorites, but this time he is known to have expressed
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the view that a universal history ought to be written. At the age of
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nineteen, Neberu received an invitation from the Danish Minister of Finance to become his
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private secretary. This Percy accepted discharge his duties to the complete satisfaction of his
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master count Chairman By When a little later he was offered a secretarial position at
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the Royal Library, he gave up his duties with the Minister because the new
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position promised to provide more opportunity for both study and travel. While performing his
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duties in the library, Noberg planned and carried out an exacting course of study
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and conduct. During his twenty third and twenty fourth years, he traveled in
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England, where he strove to become informed, even in the minutest detail,
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of all matters connected with the country and people. He went from London to
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Edinburgh, where he studied chiefly mathematics and natural sciences. Returning to Denmark in
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his twenty fourth year, he was granted a government position. He married soon
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after. He was after a professorship in the University of Kiel, but declined
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it, preferring for various reasons to continue his government service. In his spare
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time, nober made a study of Greek history and the Greek Constitution a IQ
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on hundred and seventy five. Relative content Rader point seventy five. Fra.
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Paolo Pietro Suppri fifteen fifty two sixteen twenty three, a Venetian historian AIQ one
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hundred and sixty five AIQ one hundred and seventy five one. Family standing.
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The historian's father, Francesco Sipee, was a man of hardy frame and bold
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nature, better fitted for the arts of war than those of peace, which
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he pursued. He died an unsuccessful merchant, leaving the family in straitened circumstances.
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The mother, Isabella de Morrelli, was of a Venetian family of good
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standing. She was endowed with a retired, gentle, devout and contemplative spirit,
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and it was intellectually superior and possessed of sagicity and judgment. Her famous
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sign is said to have strongly resembled her two development Twege seventeen one. Interests.
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From his earliest years, Sipe's absorbing enthusiasm was for learning in all its
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branches. He took no part in the ordinary boys games and sports, for
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he was delicate, retiring, serious, silent, thoughtful, most melancholy too
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education. His first teacher was his mother and His second was his maternal uncle,
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Ambrigio Morelli, priest and master of a superior Venetian school. The boy
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was sent to the age of twelve as a day's scholo de fra go and
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maia cappella a frio in the Servite monastery. He began a five year nonvitiate
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there some months later, continuing at Hiddley his Latin, Greek, Hebrew,
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philosophy and mathematics, to which were a letter added theology and many of the
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sciences. Three schools standing in progress sorop. He finished his uncle's school at
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the unusually early age of twelve, after holding throughout his course the place he
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had held through life, and that he was the top of his class.
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His remarkable abilities in his industry and his perseverance were recognized, for he mastered
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with ease everything put into his hands, and his powers of memory were extraordinary.
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His disclaimed tales of his marvelous retenderness by stating that he could repeat no
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more than thirty lines of Virgil outter a single hearing. He had beaten all
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his companions in every department of study, for he was consistently an excellent scholar,
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and he had become, at the early age of thirteen, a critical
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thinker as well. Even before the close of his nvitiate, he saw through
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the vacacies of accepted philosophical systems, and was able, by his just and
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powerful criticisms to convince his master of their inadequacy. So completely did he convince
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far Jane Maria, and a dead follower of Dunz Skotos, of the errors
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in that schoolman's reasoning, that the master's faith was shaken. Fraiji and Maria
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used to say, I have learned not a little from Paolo in the very
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subjects I am teaching him. Cyprus chosen thrice as public disputant, two of
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these elections occurring before his sixteenth year. Four Friends and associates. Cypi's earlier
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companions were the young aristocrats of his uncle's school, rich boys indiffered to study
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and addicted to luxury. He had none of their tastes, and yet he
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was a favorite among them, and formed lifelong friendships with several of their number,
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including Andrea Morroscini letter, a noted historian, and Leonardo Donato Outward at
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Dodge of Venice. Five. Reading, Sarpi was passionately devoted to reading,
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So conspicuous was this attachment that there was a saying among a schoolfellows, all
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we others to our frivolities, and Pierino to his books Sik's production achievement.
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Pietro's mother and uncle wished the boy to become a priest, but he was
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intent on entering a monastery where he would not be tied to the performance of
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church officers. He wanted to combine the advantages of the cloister with a world
42:45
of action. He was encouraged by his design by fra Gio Maria, his
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teacher, who knew the gain he would be in that order. The resistance
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of the family was finally overcome, and at the age of thirteen, Pietri
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changed his name to Paolo entered the No. Fety eight. On each of
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these two early appearances, aged thirteen and fifteen, as public disputant for the
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servants, Sibi manifested an immense knowledge and an ingenuity and ability which at once
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confounded every apparent set up against him, and amazed and delighted the great and
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distinguished audience. Seven evidence of precocity c. Two one to six inclusive ai
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I Q one and sixty five whe the Kushnevik ap Points six zero three development
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from seventeen to twenty six. At the age of eighteen, after a third
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brilliant exhibition as public disputant, Bayolo was appointed by Bishop Baldrino to the chair
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of Positive Theology and Sacred Canons in his cathedral, and the Great Duke Gonzaga
43:46
attached to him the Mantauan court as his private theologian. The superior of his
43:52
order in Venice consented to his accepting these positions, and the brotherhood showed its
43:58
appearance of his worth and learning by assigning him a yearly stipant for the purchase
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of books. He discharged his officers with the exceptional ability and success, and
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his fame as a Hebrew and Greek scholar and as a theologian soon spread far
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beyond the wars of Mantua. On one occasion, his superior knowledge and ability
44:15
excited the jealousy of a certain friar, who denounced him to the inquisition or
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without success. For Sipe was fully indicated, and the local priests who had
44:24
taken up their friar's quarrel were advised to let the professor alone. Just after
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becoming a priest, Syrope was appointed aged twenty two, to the chair of
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philosophy in his old monastery, and before returning to Venice, was offered the
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position of confessor in the Cathedral of Milan, which he refused. His lecturers
44:42
to the servites were so popular that he drew many lay students and men of
44:45
business from the rialto to hear them. Before his twenty seven Sype had sounded
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the depths of a very large number of diverse sciences. Mathematics and anatomy particularly
44:55
fascinated him. The University of Padowa recognized his remarkable ability by conferring upon him
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the youngest man ever so wanted, the degree of Doctor of Theology. It
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was at twenty six the acknowledged head of the science of mathematics in Italy AIQ
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one in seventy five relative coach of Deata point six zero Thomas Wallsey fourteen seventy
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five fifteen thirty an English cardinal and Minister of State AIQ one in sixty five
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AIQ one hundred and sixty five one family standing. Wolsey's father is a poet
45:32
of being an honest poor man and a man of good position, probably a
45:37
grazier and a wool merchant with relatives who are also well to do. Of
45:40
the paternal ancestry. There is no further record, and no information has been
45:45
found in regard to the mother of her forebearers. Two develop my tw age
45:50
seventeen one interests, no record two education. No record has been preserved in
45:57
Wolsey's first schooling, but of his latter progress. It is written that he
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was so early sent to the University of Oxford that he to his bachelor's degree
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in Arts there when he was fourteen years old, at an age when few
46:07
members now of the most Ford capacity are known to be admitted three schools standing
46:13
in progress. Wlsey's earliest scholarship was marked by quick and extraordinary proficiency, for
46:19
he possessed surprising capacity. At Oxford, he soon got a name of peculiar
46:22
distinction, and was commonly called the boy Bachelor. Soon after he had taken
46:29
his degree of Bachelor of Arts and made an extraordinary progress in logic and philosophy,
46:35
he was elected fellow of Magdalen College in Oxford, and had not long
46:38
been Master of Arts before the care of the school adjoining to that college was
46:43
committed to him. So also two two four friends and associates. No Record
46:49
five reading, no Record six production achievement, no Record seven evidences of precocity.
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He very early discovered a docile an apt disposition for learning, which encouraged
47:00
his parents to send him to school and to give him such an education as
47:04
might prepare him for the university a I i q. One hundred sixty five
47:09
with a Koshudetta point four three three development from seventeen twenty six c. Two
47:16
three. Wolsey continued his university career with sufficient success to win at twenty seven
47:22
an appointment as Bursar of the college. He continued also in his position of
47:27
master of the grammar school attached to the College, which he had held since
47:30
his election as Fellow of Magdalene a I I i q one in sixty five
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with Koshudetta point one one end of section thirty three