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XXIV. CASES STUDIES OF GROUP B. Part 2. · Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses

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Section thirty eight of Genetic Studies of Genius Volume two, The Eliamtal Traits of
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three hundred Geniuses by Katherine Cox. This is of the Bivox according or the
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Brevox accordings of the public domain. For more information of a volunteer, please
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visit the librivoxa orgue recorded by Leon Harvey. Chapter twenty four, Case Studies
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of Group B, Part two. Harriet marchnow Ation of two to eighteen sunny
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six, an English novelist and writer b i Q one hundred forty b i
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i Q one hundred forty one. Family standing. Harriet Montnell's great great grandfather
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was a Huguenot refugee a surgeon. Her father, a simple, outright,
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self denying and affectionate man, was the youngest son of a large family endowed
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with natural shrewdness. He became the drawbacks of an inadequate education and became a
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successful manufacturer and merchant. Her mother, daughter of a sugar refiner, did
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not understand her daughter in youth, but later encouraged her literary ambitions two develop
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a twaite seventeen one interests. As a child, Harriet was very unhappy living
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under an unacceptable terror of both persons and things. Her mental instability showed itself
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in exhibitions of excessive shyness in a plan form lat at age seven to commit
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suicide in order to reach heaven at once, and at an outburst religious fanaticism
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which occurred in her seventeenth year under the influence of a Unitarian minister. Certain
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religious interests were properly natural developments in her surroundings. At an early age,
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she formed the habit of writing out on Sunday evening the sermon heard earlier in
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the day. When quite a small child, the Bible, and especially the
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New Testament, attracted her strongly. At seven she memorized a whole of Paradise
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lost in a few months. Her interest in reading was not limited to religious
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works, and at fifteen she became a sort of walking concordance of Shakespeare as
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well as of Milton two education. Harriet sometimes asked strangers for a maximum,
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which, when granted, she wrote out, even when her small things could
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scarcely join the letters. At the age of five, she was taught to
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sew by a nurse who thought her dull, unobservant, slow and awkward.
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Chinness and fear made their child often appear a very dull pupil in music and
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other subjects, but she could execute all her musical tasks if she thought no
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one was listening. Until eleven years of age, she was taught at home
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by the older brothers and a sister according to a course of study which included
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Latin, French writing and arithmetic. Later she studied Cicero, Hergil Horace and
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French grammar. In the score of mister Perry, Unitarian minister. From thirteen
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to fifteen, she had lessons at home in Latin, French and music.
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In her sixteenth year she went to live with her aunt at Bristol, and
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there engaged in private study of analytical books and logic and rhetoric, history and
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poetry three standing in progress. Harriet learned by heart easily, but she was
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indolent in body and lazy about using the dictionary. At mister Perry's school,
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she got into the habit of thinking in Latin, and she attained a considerable
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skill in versification. The master said he never had a fault to find.
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With her four friends and associates, no specific record deaths, which had developed
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by the time she was twelve, general ill health, fear, of people,
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which continued until she was nearly sixteen, and shyness were all hinderances to
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normal social relationships. Five reading at the age of seven, had yet kept
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paradise lost constantly with her. She studied the New Testament carefully, at whom
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she read aloud, a good deal of history, biography and critical literature.
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Six Production achievements C. Two one, seven evidence of precocity C. Two
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one b i q on hundred and forty a litive coasion of data point six
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to zero three development from seventeen. At twenty six, Harriet continued her studies
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after returning home from Bristol, adding philosophy to the list of subjects included in
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the course. She translated Petrarch into English sonnets of the same form and made
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a credible rendering from Tacitus. She thought out for herself the necessary insolution of
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the fore knowledge of God. Afterward read all she could find on the subject,
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and nineteen her Female Writer's Practical Divinity appeared in the Unitarian Monthly Repository,
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and two years later her Devotional Exercises were published. She wrote some poetry in
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a few tales illustrated social and economic conditions. Principle in practice, and my
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servant Rachel belonged to her twenty fifth year, she was twice in love and
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the second time became engaged, but before the marriage her lover had died insane
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b i io q one forty that of coatured Debt appoint six zero. Hans
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Christian Oristed seventeen seventy seven to eighteen fifty one, a Danish physicist discoverer of
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electromagnetism b ir q one forty b i i r q one hundred and sixty
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one. Family standing. Olstere's father was a village apothecary. No record has
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been found to the mother or her family. Two Development twente seventeen one Interests.
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At the age of twelve, Orester determined to devote himself to the study
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of theology. But his interest was not limited to this subject alone, for
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he had a decided taste for poetry and a bent for scientific investigation, especially
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in the field of pharmacology. Two Education. Between his eighth and thirteenth year,
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Orested was sent by his father regularly each day to a wig maker's where
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he was taught by the wife to read properly in Danish, while the wig
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maker instructed him in German and arithmetic. The boy made rapid progress afterward.
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In his spare time, Orester received instruction in Greek and Latin from a student
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three school standing in progress Orgister, but it was largely self taught, and
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he was successful in acquiring the elements in which it was said that he was
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not slow an old arithmetic, which he found he studied carefully. At the
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age of twelve, he began to learn French. Four friends and associates,
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Hans Christian and his younger brother under his son dol Orested, later distinguished as
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philosopher and jurist, were close associates both in childhood and latter five reading not
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for the record six production achievement guinning at the age of twelve, or Stood
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labored zealously as apprentice in the paternal pharmaceutical laboratory. He was deeply interested in
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foreign languages and possessed considerabbility in their acquisition. He endeavored learned French by himself,
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and during the period from his thirteenth to his eighteenth year, he translated
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several herds of Us and a part of the Henriet into Danish. Seven evidences
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of percrosoity. Hans Christian often embarrassed those who sought to pull his sagacity to
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test, so that the gossips of the vicinity, he used to say of
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him, he would not live. He has too much smartness. The little
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lad was able to translate the German Bible into Danish word for word. He
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possessed an extraordinary memory, early remarked by his associates b i q onere and
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forty relived coach of data point five three three development from seventeen to twenty six.
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At the age of seventeen, orsted to pass the final examinations of the
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academy with much honor and entered the university. And nineteen he won a prize
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for his discussion of a literary question, and the next year at his university
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examinations, he astonished his judges by the extent of his knowledge. One of
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them said to another, what a candidate you have brought us. He knows
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more than all of us put together. At twenty one was to obtain a
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new scholistic prize, and at twenty two he obtained the university degree of Doctor
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of Philosophy upon presentation of a thesis in metaphysics. Before he was twenty three,
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Orister had published several short dissertations on subjects in the terature, poetry and
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philosophy. He was left at twenty three to direct Professor Menthees Pharmacy and also
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on one occasion to Phillip Professor's place in the Academy of Surgery. During the
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university period he made important investigations with the recently discovered lictric pile, and at
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twenty four pronounced his first law. This been the first step in the career
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which led brought him eminence. He then started out for an extensive trip through
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Germany and France, where he was quarterly received by leading philosophers and scientists of
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the day BQ. One and sixty that have coached of DEADA point six zero.
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Charles Sumner eighteen eleven to eighteen seventy four, an American statesman biq.
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One hundred and forty BIQ one hundred and forty five one family standing. Sumno's
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father, a Harvard graduate of Colonial Ancestry, was a well read and painstaking
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lawyer, an extremely conscientious man, but for some reason not successful in his
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profession. However, he held several responsible government positions at different times. The
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mother, although she had received no more than her common school education was endowed
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with good sense and native understanding, such as always to ensure her the respect
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of the best people. Her forebeards were farming people marked by good sense and
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steady habits. Two Development to age seventeen. One Interests. As a schoolboy,
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Charles was given to plying traveled persons with many questions. His interests were
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intellectual rather than social or athletic. He cared little for sports and games,
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and he soon ceased to attend the dancing school to which his parents sent him.
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Swimming was a sport he enjoyed most. He always relished fun in a
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quiet way. Two Education. Sumner commenced his schooling by tenants at about the
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age of six, at a private infant school kept by his maternal aunt.
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At ten, he into a private writing school, where he spent a year
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learning the elements of the common English branches. Before it was quite eleven,
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he was admitted with his younger brother to the Boston Latin School, an institution
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of high reputation with a five year curriculum including Latin, Greek, mythology,
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arithmetic, and reading. Sumner was ready to enter Hrimt at fifteen. Three
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schools standing in progress at the age of ten little Childs received a merit card.
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His interest was not limited to the school subjects, and although his father
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had not intended him to study the classics, Sumner or his own initiative brought
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from an older boy, a Latin grammar and Liberprimus, studied them privately and
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soon surprised his father by his ability to recite them. Although he was not
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always attentive to his studies at school, the other boys felt the superiority of
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his mind and education because he knew so much outside of the prescribed curriculum.
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The teacher could not catch him on appointed geography, although this was not a
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regular school subject. At the closing exercises of the Latin School, Sumner,
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aged fifteen, took part with another youth in a debate and titled a Discussion
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on the Comparative Merits of the Present Age and the Age of Chivalry, and
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he was one of six scholars to be awarded a Franklin Medal. Four Friends
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and Associates. No specific record has been found of Sumner's earlier associates other than
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members of the family. A sophomore year at college began his friendship with John
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W. Brown, who, in his opinion gave in college the largest promise
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of future eminence. The charm of his freshman year was Jonathan Steers, who
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took high ranking college and then it became a clergyman. Five Reading. Summer
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was always fond of reading. He enjoyed historical works, especially reading them with
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earnest attention. At fourteen he was reading Gibbon and copying extracts, which pleased
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him. Six Production and achievement. At the age of thirteen, Sumner won
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a third prize for a translation from Ovid and a second prize for a translation
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from Sallist. At fourteen, he wrote to compend him of English history from
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Caesar's conquest in eighteen o one. Events successionally narrated in good English with their
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dates, a work that filled a manuscript book of a six pages. Peuce
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believes that the older Summer may have suggested. Undertaking this work, Charles engaged
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in the usual Latin verse writing, and some of his everts indicate considerable skill.
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At fifteen he won second prizes for a Latin hexameter poem and for an
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English theme Seven Evidences of Precocody. He was remembered from his school days as
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large for his age, amiable and quiet and mature than most of the other
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scholars b i Q one forty without Koshneteta point six zero three. Development from
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seventeen to twenty six and college, Sumner was one of the best classical scholars.
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He excelled in translations and forensics, but he failed entirely in mathematics.
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At the age of eighteen, he published in a newspaper an essay on English
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universities, and between nineteen eight twenty two he won three prizes for essays on
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social and economic subjects. A year later, graduating from college, he entered
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the Harvard Law School, remaining there for two years. Admitted to the Barrett
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twenty three, he'd immediately engaged in law practice. By the edge of twenty
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six, he had acted as an instructor in the Harvard Law School. He
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also contributed to illegal journals and edited legal reports b IQ one and forty five
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relived Kushnov dat at point six to zero. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans eighteen
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nineteen to eight and eighty a celebrated English novelist b i Q one hundred and
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fifty b IQ one hundred and fifty one. Family standing Mary Anne Evans's father,
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by training a carpenter, became a forester land agent and surveyor to five
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estates. He possessed great vigor both of mind and body, and a character
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of the highest integrity, and as a good churchman and a staunch Tory.
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The mother, a shrewd and practical woman of a rather better social position than
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her husband, was endowed with a warm heart and unusual amount of natural force.
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Two development tow age seventeen one interests. Marie Anne was so devoted to
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her brother, three years her senior, that she insisted on following him in
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every childish undertaking. But she liked best to live in a world of her
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own creation, imagining scenes in which she was a chief actor. Books early
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became a passion, and her appetite for already was insatiable. Her enthusiasm and
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sentiment of her music was strongly marked, and her music master's son confessedly had
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no more to teach her at school, she was frequently called upon to play
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for visitors to education. Marianne was sent to school unusually early because of her
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mother's poor health. She attended a school nearby a part of each day for
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two years from the age of five. Until she was fifteen, she attended
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a series of boarding schools. At the first, the little girl fi from
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home was subject to night fears. She is said to have been otherwise quite
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happy. At a second boarding school, her religious sensibility was developed by acquaintance
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with the governess, who became a devoted friend. At the third, her
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English style was trained, and she gained much imprecision. When barely sixteen,
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she was taken out of school because of her mother's fatal illness. Three schools
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standing in progress. Mary Anne had some difficulty in learning to read, not
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because she was slow, but because she liked to play so much better.
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At her first boarding school, she was observed and serious beyond her years.
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And observant, she developed the habit of sitting in corners watching her elders.
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She early showed early mastery of the usual school learning. At at last boarding
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school, she was recognized as one of the most promising pupils, being greatly
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in advance of fellows in a knowledge of French and in English composition. She
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was a leader of prayer meetings amongst the girls and of charitable enterprises. Four
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friends and associates. Miss Lewis the principal governess of one of her schools,
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and an ardent evangelical churchwoman, was for many years her only intimate friend and
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correspondent. Marianne did not associate freely with children of her own age five reading,
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the first book she read was The Lennet's Life, and when still very
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young she took her passion delight in Aesop's Fables. By the time she was
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seven or eight, she read every volume available, among others, works of
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Scott, who, from her first acquainance with Waverley, became a great favorite.
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Other favorites were The History of the Devil by Daniel Defoe, Pilgrim's Progress,
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and Racellas. In her thirteenth year, she became upon Balvoars Devereaux and
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was considerably shaken by the impression that religion was not requisite to moral excellence.
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Six production and achievement were no more than eight years of age, Marianne wrote
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out from memory the story of Waverley. Before she was twelve, she and
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her brother used to add her aides for the family audience. This time,
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mary Anne began to be regarded as a child beyond the ordinary. In her
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fourteenth year, she received a school prize a copy of Pascal seven evidence of
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the precocity no additional record C two six Biq one and fifty relative coason of
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debt upoint six to zero three development from seventeen to twenty six. After his
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sister's marriage, Mary Anne became an exemplary housewife for her father. She took
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regular lessons from mister Bezy in music, French, Italian and German, besides
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doing a large amount of miscellaneous reading, especially in the field of religion.
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After moving from the farm to a house near Coventry, she found in two
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new friends and their associates, and intellectual stimulus hitherto lacking in her life.
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Mister Bray, a wealthy manufacturer, and his wife were believers in phrenology,
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interested in philosophical speculations, and in problems of religion and theology. At the
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Brays, Miss Evans met Emerson Froud, Robert Owens, George Combe, and
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other men of mark in the stimulating society. She soon changed her attitude toward
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the old village dogmas and determined, in order to be quite consistent, to
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give up going to church. At this time she took lessons in Greek and
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studied Hebrew by herself. At twenty four, she began a translation of Strauss's
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Life of Jesus, which was published three years later. B I I i
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Q Wasant fifty Belitive Cochet appoint seven five. Charlotte Bront eighteen sixteen to eighteen
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fifteen an English novelist b I i Q Watan fifty five b I I i
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Q one hundred fifty five one family standing. Charlotte's father was an irishman of
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peasant stock, who, after having been a weaver and schoolmaster in Ireland,
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put himself through Cambridge and became a clergyman of the Church of England. Some
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volumes of his verse and a few open letters were published. This clever man
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was a victom of hypochondria, and his character was marked equally by Vehemmond,
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prejudice and keen intelligence. His wife, Maria Baranwell, came of a nonconformist
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Cornish family of good descent. She was intelligent, read with a discrimination,
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and wrote an essay on the advantage of poverty in Religious Concerns two Development twente
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seventeen one. Interests in early years, Charlotte manifested a keen interest in politics.
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The Duke of Wellington at that time Prime Minister and leader at the Tory
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Party, was long her special idol. She was greatly interested in art,
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and developed some talent in drawing, although in the main her interests were studious
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and literary. Two. Education. The reverend mister Brandt, probably influenced by
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Rousseau's theories of education, sought to make his children hardily and indifferent to the
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pleasures of food and dress. A regular lesson schedule was followed under the father's
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instruction, but the children were in the habit of picking up an immense Madame
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miss selenous information of for themselves. At the age of ege, Charlotte was
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sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. From nine to thirteen, she was
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at home. At fourteen, she was sent to row Head School, where
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she remained a year and a half, after which she again returned home.
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Three schools. Standing in progress. At a first school, Charlotte was a
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general favorite, never under disgrace, however slight. At Roehead School, although
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handicapped at her entrance by the regularity of her earlier studies, she quickly rose
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to the first place in the first class. She is described by a school
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friend as having been head of the school in all intellectual pursuits. At the
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close of the first half year, Charlotte won three prizes and a silver medal
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for fulfillment of duties. She retained to the end of her school course.
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Her only school fine was at four Late Talk. Friends and associates. United
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to her sisters by common intellectual interests and ambitions, Charlotte found in them her
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closest friends. At Roehead School, she formed two lifelong fees friendships with two
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schoolmates, Ellen Nussy and Mary Taylor. The latter seems to have been an
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unusually intelligent young woman. Five reading All the Bronze read a memoriously irregularly from
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Elia's childhood. The Imitation of Christ and Scott's Tales of her Grandfather are two
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books specifically mentioned as having been read by Charlotte before she was fifteen. As
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evidence of the extent of her reading, the following may be quoted. Soon
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after leaving school at sixteen, she admitted reading something of Corbette's. She did
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not like him, she said, but all was fish that came to her
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net six production achievement. All four of the Little Bronze commenced to write at
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a very early age. The History of the Year eighteen twenty nine, a
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detail account of family and intellectual activities, was written by Charlotte before she was
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thirteen. Her Catalog of My Books was the period of their completion up to
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August third, eighteen thirty, includes twenty two volumes, all within a period
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of fifteen months. Each. Follen contains from sixty two hundred pages, and
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the series includes adventure tales, books of Rhymes, a drama, and two
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volumes six numbers of magazine, et cetera. An Adventure in Ireland, written
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when the author was thirteen, has been considered to exhibit distinct foreshadowings of Charlotte's
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peculiar talent. A list of painters whose works I Wish to see indicates at
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thirteen, keen interested night and a wide and unusual acquaintance with its history on
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the part of one who had no first hand acquaintance with pictures. A poem
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The Wonderful Stags, which before she was seventeen exact date unknown, certainly shows
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correct versification and a high degree of imaginive sensitiveness. While at rou Heead School,
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Charlotte enjoyed an ability to frighten her friends by her imaginitive stories. Seven
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Evidence's brecosity. As soon as they could read and write, Charlotte and her
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brother and sisters invented and acted little plays of their own. The following instances
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report at about seven, being asked by her father to name the best book
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of the world, Charlotte answered the Bible, and the next best the Book
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of Nature. After her entrance at the first school, she was described thus
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in the official register, writes indifferently cyphrus a little and works neckly. Knows
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nothing of grammar, geography, history or accomplishments, although of her age,
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but knows nothing systematically but c. Two four, six and seven, but
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I I Q one and fifty five lit of Kochnetete appoint it two three development.
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From seventeen to twenty six. From the age of sixteen, Charlotte Bronte
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spent three years at home, assisting in the education of her young sisters and
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devoting her leisure hours to reading or writing. She read at this time the
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English classical writers, biographical works, and works on natural history. She also
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maintained an interest in politics. At the age of nineteen, Charlotte became a
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teacher at Roehead's School. Here she stayed for three happy years until her health
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failed and she was forced to return home to recuperate. At twenty three she
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entered upon a position as governess and took another at twenty five. At twenty
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three she declined to offer as a marriage. Throughout the years, her health
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was almost constantly poor, and her salary when she was teaching meager b i
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q one undred and fifty five will have coachtal date at pontet two. John
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Henry Newman h and o one to eighteen ninety and English theologian b IQ one
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undred fifty five b i q one hundred and fifty five one family standing.
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Newman's father, a banker, came from a family of landed propertiers, originally
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of Dutch extraction, and his mother from a French Protestant family descended from Henry
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Fordronio, said to have been an admiral of France. The older Newman,
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who was reported to have been very intellectual, had also a taste form music,
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which he encouraged in his children. The mother inherited the family tradition in
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religion two development to age seventeen one interests see also two, five, six
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and seven. Newman was studious, devoted to literary exercises and to books.
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He showed some musical talent. At the age of ten he began to learn
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to play upon the violin. He was superstitious and imaginative. He often used
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to wish that the Arabian nights were true. At fifteen, he is described
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as a dreamy boy with a mind biased in the direction of religion. His
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conversion occurred at this time, although he was never or scarcely ever seen taking
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part in any game, yet he was often chosen by the other boys as
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arbitrator in their disputes. Two education. From his eighth threes fifteenth year,
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Newman attended a school at Ealing, near London, under the Reverend George Nicholas,
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d c L of Oxford and nine. He studied Ovid and Greek at
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ten, and he began verses at eleven. He got into Dietisaron and Homer
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and at twelve Herodotus. During his school years he was taught music by a
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private master. He entered Trinity College, Oxford just before the age of sixteen,
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three schools standing in progress. Doctor Nicholas said that no boy had run
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through the school from the bottom to the top as rapidly as John Newman from
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Oxford, which the boy entered two years below the usual age. He wrote
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to his father, I now see the disadvantage of going to Sir to Oxford,
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for there are several who know more than I do in Latin, a
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Greek, and I do not like that. In spite of his youth,
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Newman was so proficient in mathematics that he surprised his tutor, and he had
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to fag hard to keep up with his friend Bowen. As sixteen, Newman
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won accommodation for his Latin declamations four friends and associates. Although bored by general
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society, John was devoted to his mother and sisters. During his first year
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at college age fifteen and sixteen, he formed a lasting friendship with a fellow
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freshman, John William Bowden. Three years as senior five reading. Newman was
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brought up from his earliest years to take a great delight in reading the Bible.
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He recollected listening to the reading of The Lay of the Last Minstrel when
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he was about eight, and during his boyhood he used to read Scott's novels
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in the early summer mornings in bed. At fourteen, he read Pain's Tracks
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against the Old Testament, finding pleasure in thinking of the objections which were contained
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in them. At fifteen, he read some of Hume's essays, Pope's Essay
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on Man, and such works as Newton's Dissertation on the Prophecies and Milner's Church
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History, and was enamored of the Church Fathers. Under his mother's influence,
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he read the works of the Protestant divines. He loved to read serious books
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aloud to the servants, expounding their meaning. As a college youth of sixteen,
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he was very fond of Bishop Beverage's private thoughts six production achievement at nine
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human He kept a pocket diary in which he read these entries, among others,
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heard for the first time the Cuckoo dreamed that Mary was dead at Sera
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et cetera, and also a number of verses and moral axioms. At eleven,
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Newman began some original expositions in prose and verse, and it is recorded
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that at this time he wrote a mock drama of some kind. By fourteen
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he was possessed by a passion for writing. He wrote a burlesque coppera,
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composing tunes for the songs. He maintained two opposing controversial periodicals, The Spy
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and the Anti Spy. Thirty numbers of one and twenty seven of the other
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appeared within six months, but with scant sympathy for his early production, he
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wrote letter, there is not a sentence in either worth preserving. Between fourteen
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and fifteen he contributed to the portfolio written by a club as Senior Boys,
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nicknamed the Spy Club, and at fifteen he wrote some reflections on the subject
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of recreations as a beginning of Sins at fifteen a sixteen the Beholder, all
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of his own writing ran through forty numbers and what is sixty octavo pages closely
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written of this periodical. He wrote later, it is far superior in composition
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to my others, but nothing worth keeping, but some verses to the doctrine
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which I now hold fast. At this time he made a speech before the
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Duke of Kent, who said the action was so good. It is reported
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further that he took part in school performances of Terence's plays. As sixteen humanic
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compose an essay on fame, in which he expressed the idea that it is
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the name and not the person, which is celebrated. He prepared the text
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of some dozen sermons passing at the same time over such questions as predestination and
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efaseus grace, sermon evidences of precocity. Early boyhood, John was a strong
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willed child who tried very hard not to yield to his mother a letter written
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by his father when the boys five bids him read it to his mother and
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to his brother Charlest to show how well he can read writing, He continues,
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but he will observe that you must learn something every day or you will
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no longer be called a clever boy. On his sixth birthday, Human asserted
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Cowper's faithful friend, which he had learned by heart. He was a little
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letter described by his sister as a very philosophical young gentleman at the age of
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ten, very observant and considerate. Before fifteen he was most scrupulous as to
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facts, correcting a member of the family who spoke of Wellington, who was
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short of stature as a gigantic warrior. He was very superstitious b I i
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q one in fifty five relaid Koshebetta point seventy five three. Development. From
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seventeen to twenty six, Newman spent his leisure time at college in writing with
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his friend Bowden. His first poem was published. He read Hard Hoving to
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a chief honors in his final examination three development. From seventeen to twenty six,
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Newman spent his leisure time at college in writing Please Friend Bowden. His
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first poem was published. He read Hard Hoby to achieve honors in his final
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examination, but being called up a day sooner than he had expected, he
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lost his head and failed to win the converted success. Thereupon he gave up
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law a, decided to enter the ministry, and so remained at Oxford Children
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Private Pupils. At twenty one, hem bitiged himself by winning an Oriel fellowship.
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At twenty three he was ordained a deacon and preached his first sermon.
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At twenty four twenty five, he was daigned a priest. Before his twenty
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sixth hed become a public tutor of Oriol b i q one fifty five relave
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koshept at at points seventy five. Robert Southee seventeen seventy four to eighteen forty
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three an English poet and prose writer b i Q oneudred fifty five b i
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Q one hundred fifty five one family standing. Southe's grandfather and great grandfather were
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to Yemen fathers, but his father was a linen draper inri Wistall who failed
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in business when his son Robert was eighteen. Perhaps it was characteristic together father
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that in the evenings he whiled away at the hours over Felix Farley's Bristol Journal,
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his only reading Southeast. Mother was of a sweet temper and happy disposition,
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and although unschooled, she was able to see a fact swiftly and surely.
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Two development to age seventeen. One interests. As a tiny lad,
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Robert would beguile the hours in the garden making friends with flowers and insects.
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The delight which he early learned to take in rural sights and sounds grew up
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with him and continued unabated. He had little interest in the usual boy's sports,
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and many were the trunt hours delightfully spent in reading in a friend's library.
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Two. Education. At the age of three, Robert was handed over
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to the schoolmistress, Man Powell, and at six was advanced to a higher
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school in Bristol. After a year at boarding school in Corston, he again
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returned to Bristol. From his ninth to his thirteenth year a school whose master
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was a man of character and certain humorous origionality. Thereafter he was instructed by
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a Bristol clergyman and by a special tutor. He then entered Westminster School,
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which he attended till his nineteenth year. Three schools standing in progress. Southey
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looked back with pride upon his success in spelling at Corston, but his handwriting
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in that school was not satisfactory to the severe and stern master. The credit
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is due to mister Williams, master of his fourth school of home, discovered
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in his favorite pupil a writer of English prose. So great was the teacher's
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enthusiasm over the pupil success in writing that Southeast class may determine to humiliate the
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more successful colleague. To prove his ignorance, they asked him what the letters
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I E stand for, and he, ever ready properly answered for John the
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evangelist at Westminster South, he collected mister laneous facts rather than high scholarship.
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Reports four friends and associates. Young Robert spent much of his time, especially
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in the vacations with his aunt, Miss Taylor, subtered to the humors of
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a maiden lady of whimsical, irrational and self indulgent temper. At her house
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he played with her brother of her maid more, it is stated, from
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the need of companionship than from congeniality, and listened to the stories of a
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feeble or relative. At Westminster he made friends with C. W. Wynne,
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afterwards Secretary of War and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and with
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G. C. Bidford. Five. Reading before he was eight southe Hardbridge,
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Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, translations of Tassau and Ariosto, and The
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Fairy Queen. Before he was twelve, he had read Pope's Homer, Michel's
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Lucide, Sidney's Circadia, Goldsmith, et cetera. During the years Westminster he
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read, among other works, Gibbons Decline and four, Piquet's religious Ceremonies,
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which impress his imaginations strongly, and poems by Crabbe. Six. Production achievement.
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Before he was eight, Robert had begun to write a play, having
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ampleted an act in a half, said playwriting was the easiest thing in the
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world. When about eight, assisted by a little friend, he set up
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a theater for puppets. At nine he began to write verses, epochs of
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the Trojan Brutus, Egbert, King, Richard the Third, et cetera.
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At two over thirteen, he was conscious of the intellectual progress he had derived
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not from books or instruction, but from constantly exercising himself an English verse.
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Among his early literary exercises were heroic epistles, translations from Latin poetry, satires,
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descriptive and moral pieces, a poem of the Trojan War in dialog,
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and three books of Casabelian. At fourteenth were it in elegy on the death
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of his infant sister Marcreta seven evans. As a precocity, Robert's emotional sensitiveness
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made him a mother's darling. When he was two and perhaps before, he
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wept at the tragic fate of the children's sliding on the ice all on a
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summer's day, or the too early death of Billy Bruggle's peace, and so
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deeply was he moved that he would beg his mother not to proceed with the
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sad tale. At three, he was handed over by his beloved attendant Patty,
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to the schoolmistress, who was old and grim. He kicked lustily and
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cried, take me to pat I don't like ye ye've got ugly eyes.
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During the two years before he was five, he spent much of his time
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with his aunt, Miss Tyler. What he most enjoyed doing these visits was
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to be dressed up and seated beside her in the evening in the best part
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of the theater. At the age of seven, it was he who comforted
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his mother as she wept at the thought of his impending departure for a distant
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school b i i q One fifty five will that of koshep debt at point
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five three three development. From seventeen to twenty six, with three Westminster friends,
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Thalcey started a school paper, the Flaglant and whose pages appeared the Essay
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on Flogging, which caused Southea's expulsion from school and prevented his entest at christ
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Church. However, he was accepted at Balliol College, and his expenses there
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were paid by his uncle, the Reverend Herbert Hill, chaplain in Lisbon.
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Southe gained little nothing from the university, accepted liking for swimming and a knowledge
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of Epictetus, and perhaps the conviction that Stoicism was the best and noblest assistance.
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Within six weeks after his nineteenth birthday, he began to finish Joonovac,
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an epic poem in twelve books. At twenty he began to experience difficulty in
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choosing a profession. In spite of his uncle's wishes, he decided he could
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not take orders. He tried to become a doctor, but the dissecting room
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repelled him, and he refused a position as reporter because the paper was opposed
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to the holding of individual convictions. At this time, Southey met Coleridge,
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and together the two enthusiasts formed a scheme for a communistic settlement pantisocracy in America.
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After his marriage the next year, Southi abanned this game, thereby causing
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a breach with Coleridge. At twenty he lectured on European history, wrote wat
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Tyler, part of the Fall of Robinspierre, and published his first poems On
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twenty one. After a visit to his uncle in Lisbon, he wrote letters
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from Spain and Portugal. At twenty three he made a serious brief attempt at
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legal study at grays Inn, where he became acquainted with Charles Lamb and Rickmann.
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He was interested at this time in making translations from the German During this.
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In the next following years, south he produced more poetry than any other
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time. He wrote verses for the Morning Post. He added the first volume
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of the Annual Anthology and the second edition of his Joanovac that at twenty five
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five he had recovered from a nervous fever brought on by overwork, he published
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his second volume of poems. Modoch was finished the same year. B I
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I i Q one fifty five relived koshet at at point six zero, end
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of section thirty eight, and the end of Genetic Studies of Genius Volume two.
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The Early Mental Traits of three hundred Geniuses by Catherine Mary Cox, recorded
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