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XXIV. CASES STUDIES OF GROUP B. Part 1. · Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses

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Section thirty seven of Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume two, The Earliamental Traits
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of three hundred Geniuses by Katherine Cox. This is of the Brivox according or
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the Brivox Accordings of the public Domain. For more information of Volunteer, please
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visit Libervoxenlorgue recorded by Leon Harvey, Chapter twenty four Case Studies of Group B,
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Part one. Robert Fulton seventeen sixty five to eight ten fifteen an American
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engineer and inventor b i i Q one hundred five b i i i Q
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one hundred fifteen one family standing. Fultund's father was probably of Irish descent.
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For many years he held offices of public trust in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Letty
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turned to farming, but without bettering his financial status. He died when his
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son was three years old. The mother appears to have been a woman of
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superior attainments. Two Development tw age seventeen one interests. Of Robert's early interests
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is reported that he wasn't genius in the cannibal experiments, and that, like
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his older fellow townsmen Benjamin West, he displayed a taste for painting. This
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taste However, he found it hard to gratify it during the Revolutionary period,
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as materials were difficult to obtain and sympathy for such a pastime was wanting.
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See also two six two. Education. Until he was seven years old,
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Robert was taught at home by his mother. Thereafter he attended the school of
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one Caleb Johnson, a Quaker, and a Tory. Three schools standing in
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progress. Robert did not distinguish himself at school. Four Friends and associates.
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When about fourteen years of age, he became acquainted with the Mechanican's young apprentice,
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who is four years a senior of his other associates, there is no
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specific record five reading, no record six production achievement. Robert's early mechanical achievements
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were various. He powdered out lead for a pencil, performed experiments with quicksilver,
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which, however, he was unwilling to describe, drew designs for firearms,
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and became expert in determining the carrying distance of different boars and balls.
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When it was about thirteen, he manufactured an air gun of his success.
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However, there is no record. Before he was fifteen, he manufactured a
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small working model of a fishing boat to be propelled by paddles. A set
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of paddle wheels operated by double crank motion, which were actually used on a
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fishing boat, are also attributed to his workmanship. Seven evidence of precocity C
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two six, b IQ one and five relative coach debta point one one three
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developed from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen, Fulton left his home in
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Lancaster and established himself in Philadelphia, Willing to undertake any available in play.
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He obtained orders for machinery and carriaged designs, an executed number of paintings miniatures
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still extant. By the age of twenty he had met with some success in
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his painting. At twenty one he left Philadelphia and sailed for England, and
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there won the patronage of Benjamin West, probably working under the supervision of the
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elder artist. At the age of twenty five, Fulton exhibited two portraits in
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the Royal Academy and four others in the collection of the Royal Society of British
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Artists. His work was favorably noticed, and financial as well as artistic success
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was in sight. B i Q onedren fifteen relative coach of data point two
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zero Missus Gaskill Elizabeth Clogoer and Stevenson eighteen ten to eighteen sixty five an English
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novelist and biographer b i Q one hundred and ten b IIQ one hundred and
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fifteen one family standing. Missus Gaskill's father was, at various times her Unitarian
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minister, a farmer, a boarding housekeeper for university students, an editor for
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Scott's Magazine, a contributed to the Edinburgh Review, and a keeper of the
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records of the Treasury. Her mother, who died soon after her daughter's birth,
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was a member of a family of great account in Cheshire. Two development,
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age seventeen one interests no record. Two education. From fourteen to sixteen
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Elizabeth attended a boarding school at Stratford on Avon, where she was taught Latin,
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French and Italian. At sixteen or seventeen, she made several visits to
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London. Three schools standing in progress no record. Four friends and associates.
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No record has been found of others than relatives and school associates. Five reading
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no record. Six production achievement no record. Seven evidences of plicocity no record
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b i Q on hundred and ten relative coach of data point to zero three
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development from seventeen to twenty six. Between the ages of seventeen and twenty one,
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Elizabeth spent two winters at Newcastle on Tyne and seasoned at Edinburgh. Their
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visits of the latter city finished material for the introduction to Round the Sofa.
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According to Latter family tradition, Elizabeth had written a short story before her marriage.
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At the age of twenty one. Through the interests and social problems of
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William Gaskill, Unitarian Minister of Manchester, it became her husband. The young
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author found an opportunity to reserve the labor conflicts of the cities, and this
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experience afforded material for her letter writings b i q Onere fifteen led of Coach
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of Data point one one. Philip H. Sheridan eighteen thirty one tw eighteen
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eighty eight, an American general b i q Onedred ten b iq Wanton twenty
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five one Family standing. Sheridan's father, originally an Irish farmer, became a
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contract in America, but after suffering financial reverses, returned to farming, although
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he remained in the country of his adoption. The mother, who was also
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a second cousin of the father was said to possess excellent common sense and clear
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discernment, which in every way fitted her for her maternal duties. Two Development
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went seventeen one interests. Sheridan's sole wish was to become a soldier, and
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his highest aspiration to go to West Point two education. After receiving his earliest
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training under the guidance of his mother, he was sent, when old enough,
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to the village school, where he acquired a smattering of geography, history,
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arithmetic, and grammar three schools standing in progress. Sheridan was not unlike
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many other boys, for he played taunt many a time. Four Friends and
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associates no specific information C. Two three five Reading. Between the ages of
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fifteen and seventeen, Sheridan read so much and to such good advantage, that
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it became a local authority in history. Six Production achievement. When about fourteen
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years of age, Sheridan went to work in a grocery store. At fifteen,
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he was engaged by a competitor of his first employer, and before the
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year was out he became bookkeeper and in the dry goods store of the most
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enterprising man of the village, at a salary five times that received in his
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first employment seven evidences of precocity, no record b I I q onetion ten
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relate debt appoint four three three development from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen,
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Sheridan entered West Point, having after zealous preparatory study, secured an appointment
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on his own initiative. His scholarship improved steadily from one term's examination to another,
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but at the age twenty, he was suspended for fighting a duel because
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the offender's previous good conduct, the Senates imposed in this case was a light
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one. At twenty two, Sheridon graduated at thirty fourth in a class of
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fifty two, and the same year he was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in
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the U. S Infantry. At twenty three he was promoted to a second
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lieutenancy. At twenty four he was placed as the only officer in charge of
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three hundred recruits, and during the same year were services in subduing the Yakima
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Indians. He was specially mentioned for his gallantry in General Scott's report from Army
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Headquarters in New York. During his users service, Sheridan continued his self instruction,
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chiefly in subjects connected with his profession b i Q onere twenty five reliveive
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coach of data points six to zero. Hans Christian Anderson h. Five to
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eighteen seventy five a Danish novelist and poet, writer of fairy tales and travels
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BIQ one undred and fifteen BQ one hundred twenty five one. Family standing.
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Hans Christian's great grandmother, a member of a noble family, ran away from
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home to marry beneath her social status. The poet's father was a poor shoemaker
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of delicate health, endowed with a poetical nature, a fondness for reading,
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and a liberal religious faith. He desired more than all else the education and
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advancement of his son. The poet's mother was sensitive, gentle, and religious.
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Two development wage seventeen one interests. Hans Christian's earliest recollections were of sunday
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walks in the woods with his father. At the age of three, he
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was much impressed by the sight of Spanish soldiers, and at six, the
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coming of the Big Comet aroused his superstitious delight. During his childhood, he
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took little interest in boys games at school, but remained sitting within doors,
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where his greatest pleasure was in making clothes for the doors of his puppet show,
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or in gazing at imagined scenes among the sun illuminated leaves. He early
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expressed a desire to go upon the stage, but his mother opposed his wish,
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urging him to become a tailor. Two education, an old woman who
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had an ABC's school taught Hans Christian's letters to spell and to read write.
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Later, the Lad attended a boy's school. From his thirteenth to his fourteenth
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year, he was involved in a charity school, where he received instruction in
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religion, writing, and arithmetic. At this time he was also prepared for
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a confirmation by the provost three schools standing in progress. One day at the
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A. B. C's School, having got a hit of the rod,
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I rose, immediately took my book, and without further ceremony, went home
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to my mother, asked that I might go to another school, and that
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was granted me. At the new school, the little fellow became a favorite
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of the teacher, who petted him in various ways. Later at the charity
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school, the lad appears to have done poor work in earthmatic but he must
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have shown ability in some subjects, for his mother, boasting of his good
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memory, said haus Christian does not need to open his book as yet he
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knows his lesson. Four friends and associates. Hans Christians associates were his parents,
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the neighbors, and his school companions. A mother latter was a little
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girl than the one in tenants at the boys school, who became a devoted
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comrade. She remained his confidante until the youthful poet's imagination carried him beyond her
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practical comprehension, and she cried out, he is a four Lucky's grandfather see
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also two six five reading. Hans Christian's father had read Holberg's plays aloud to
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his son, and after the father's death, the boy, aged eleven,
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continued alone the reading his father had begun, adding to Oldburg's dramas, the
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plays of Shakespeare more general works from a circulating library were available in the home
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of friends in Copenhagen. Hans Christian at sixteen bought old playbooks with his small
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earnings, and he read voluminously in the university library. Six Production and Achievement.
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At eleven or a little later, and during the period of his greatest
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interest in his puppet theater, Hans Christian began to write little plays. The
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first of these a tragedy borrowed from the old song of Paramus, and thisby
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was read aloud to all the neighbors by its author, to his own great
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satisfaction and joy. Hans Christian was much surprised and depressed when one of his
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bearers ridiculed production. After being conforted by his mother, he began a second
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piece, in which a king and a queen were among the characters to their
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majesties. In order to emphasize their rank, he gave speeches peppered with English,
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French and German words. This play, also he was pleased to read
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aloud in a factory where the lad was at this time employed. The older
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workmen performed his duties so that he might spend his time singing and acting for
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them. The boy was happy in these surroundings until the rude giprom a fellow
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worker caused him to leave his job and the premises. At about the same
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time, the boy gave expression to another phase in artistry by making a beautiful
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white pincushion for an aristocratic lady whom he admired. At the age of thirteen,
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Hans Christian acted minor parts with the Royal Theater Company in his native village,
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and at fourteen, sure of a successful future on the stage, he
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journeyed to Copenhagen armed with a letter of introduction to a well known dancer.
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After many discouragements in the city, he finally won the patronage of distinguished men
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through their kindness. He received instruction in singing and in dancing at the Royal
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Theore. His joy was boundless when at length he was given a few small
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parts to act. During this time he tried his hand at writing, but
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met with no success servant evidences of precocity. When still quite small, Hans
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Christian was a welcome guest in the spinning room of the poor house, and
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there on one occasion he delivered an illustrated lecture on anatomy to the inmates,
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an effort that greatly impressed his elderly into repid audience. In his early years
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he was considered a strange, clever child who would not live long. His
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imagination was stimulated by the fairy stories he was told at the poorhouse and by
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the sights he had seen in the neighboring in Saint Hospital. Once, when
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Glenning with others in a forbidden harvest field. He won the interest and patronage
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of the bailiff who would have struck the little trespasser, by exclaiming, how
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do you strike me when God can see it? The strong, stirred man
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looked at him, patted him on the cheeks, asked his name, and
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gave him money. Hans Christian's mother was led by this and other episodes to
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regard her son as an unusual child, but among the boys he was to
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write it. As the playwriter, he would study the list of persons in
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place and think out a whole comedy for himself, Often alone at home for
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his mother went out to work, he occupied himself with his little puppet theater,
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with the puppets and with their parts. Several influential families in the town
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near by became interested in Hans Christian and invited him to visit them in the
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aristocratic houses. He met, among others, Prince Christian afterward King of Denmark
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b I i q. One of fifteen relative Coach of Debt apt point six
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zero three development from seventeen to twenty six. Anderson's first published work, a
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volume of Miserable Poems, appeared when its writer was seventeen. From his eightheens
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to his twenty third year, he attended school as a ward of the king.
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Although discouraged and unhappy, he seems to have done fairly well, for
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at twenty two was able to enter the university. At twenty three he had
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written and published a Journey on Foot from the Holme Canal to the east point
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of Amak, as well as a volume of minor works. The young author
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was much alater by praise and hurt by plame of his writings, For then,
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as always, he was sensitive and sentimental. Before he was twenty four,
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Innoson had passed his second academic examination with high honors. At twenty five
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made a long journey through his native country, the remembrance of which Rio goes
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in later works. B I I i Q under twenty five. Relative Koschett
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appoint sixt zero William Lloyd Garrison eighteen o five to eighteen seventy nine, an
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American abolitionist b I i Q one hundred fifteen b I I i Q one
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hundred thirty one. Family standing. Garrison's father, a C Captain, was
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remembered by his contemporaries as a smart man, brighter most everything. Although possessing
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qualities had led to his being described as genial, social, and affectionate,
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he deserted his family when his son, William Lloyd, was three years old.
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The son wrote of his mother, her mind was one of the first
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order, clear, vigorous, creative and illustrious, and sanctioned by an ever
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glowing pity. She was mirthed as well and at a sense of the humorous.
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Two Development twenty seventeen. One Interests. As a little boy, William
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Lloyd enjoyed games and sports such as hoops, swimming, skating, boating and
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snowballing and marbles. When he was about fourteen, he wished to be apprentice
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in a trade because, to quote his mother, he could then go to
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work and help maintain his mother, a very good resolve for a child of
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fourteen. Garrison became interested in politics at an early age. He gave art
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and support to the Federalist Party at a time when party feeling ran high in
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the state. Two Education. After receiving his US training at the primary or
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writing school, he was sent away from home for three months at the age
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of six to attend grammar school. At the close of this brief session,
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it was necessary for him to leave school to help own the family living.
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At ten, he so longed to return to school that he was sent back
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to the grammar school and newbury Port, where he remained un till he was
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eleven, three schools standing in progress. In his earliest school days, Garrison
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was slow in mastering the alphabet, and so was surpassated by his little sister.
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Two and one half years his junior left Hannonis, which the master insisted
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he must overcome, increased his difficulties, but finally then, in spite of
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all, he attained a good paymanship. Toward the end of his schooling in
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Newburyport, his mother wrote expressing a pleasure in his good behavior and his improvement
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in school. Four Friends and Associates, No. Record five. Reading William
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early invinced a taste for poetry. He was fond of fiction and romance.
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Six, Production and achievement at six or before he began his business career,
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selling molasses candy on election and training days between six and nine. His singing
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voice was remarkable for its beauty, and he sometimes acted as choristo in the
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Baptist church. When nine years old, he was apprentice to a Quaker shoemaker,
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and learned in a few months to make a tolerable shoe. A period
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of schooling was followed by an apprenticeship to a cabinet maker. By the end
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of six weeks, aged about twelve, he could make a toy bureau and
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help with veneering, but he was so homesick that he ran away. At
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the age of thirteen, he was apprentice to the printer of the New Berryport
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Herald. He soon learned the printing trade, finding it a positive recreation.
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He quickly grew expert and accurate as a compositor, and greatly pleased the editor
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by his superior performance. At sixteen and a half, his first published work
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appeared, a discussion the breach of the marriage promise of the signature an old
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bachelor. A second communication and similar vein followed in three days, and a
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highly imaginitive account of a shipwreck within a week. A little later, the
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young journalist contributed two articles on South American affairs, Servant evidences of precocity C.
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Two one and six, b I i Q one fifteen Relave Koshett at
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point four three three. Development from seventeen to twenty six. At the age
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of twenty, Garrison completed his apprenticeship with the Herald and left his post with
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a considerable record of published political and literary articles. From twenty to twenty five
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he added various papers, making his personality felt wherever he wrote. He was
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twenty two when a visit from Lundy, anti slavery advocate, determined him to
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devote his life to philanthropy and reform. A year later, he and his
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new friend entered into close corporation when Garrison became editor of the Census of Universal
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Emancipation and twenty four Garrison was convicted of lobel for publications upon the slave trade
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and imprisoned. At twenty five, he established the Liberator, whose pulsy was
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to demand immediate emancipation b I i i Q oneundred thirty relative Coach of Debate
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of pun six zero George William Frederick Villiers, fourth Earl of Clarendon eighteen hundred
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to eighteen seventy, an English statesman and diplomatist b i q Onunt twenty b
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I i i Q one hundred twenty five one family standing. Phillier's ancestors were
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men of high political standing. His paternal grandfather sod with distinction as English minister
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in Germany, and was the first Earl of Clarendon. The father does not
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appear to have displayed any commanding or endearing qualities. He held various civil service
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appointments. The mother, a woman of great energy, admirable good sense and
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high feeling, was the only daughter of the first Lord Boringdon and a descendant
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of Cromwell. Two Development twage seventeen One. Interests let us written from college
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Villiers entered at sixteen, indicate their righter's interest in horses, dogs and late
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dinners. They contain also vivid discussions of current events. The young student had
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a distaste for logic, added incapacity for mathematics, but a strong turn for
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languages. Two Education. Nothing is known of Villia's school days, except that
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he received private instruction from the masters of Christ's Hospital School at sixt Any interest
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Saint John's College, Cambridge, whereby his father's arrangement, he prepared for lectures
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by reading with a private tudor. Three Schools Standing in Progress c. Two
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one four. Friends and Associates. Villiers was much attached to his beloved sister
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of the eas Are, and during his college years carried on a voluminous correspondence
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with her five reading no record six, production achievement no record seven evidence of
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precocity. At the age of nine months, he cut his first tooth b
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i i q washin twenty relieve koshe at at point to zero three development from
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seventeen to twenty six. In accordance with an ancient university privilege awarded to the
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Senates of Royalty and members of the higher aristocracy, philus age twenty was admitted
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to the degree of m without the preliminary BA. Through family influence he became
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attached a little letter to the Embassy of Sir Charles Paget at Saint Petersburg at
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twenty three, and through the same influence he was given a seat on the
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Board of Customs, where he rapidly attained popularity b i q washing twenty five.
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Relative Coach of Denna Putu Zeru Ludwick Holberg sixteen eighty four to seventeen fifty
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four, the father of Danish drama and the greatest name in Danish literature b
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i q quech in twenty b i q one hundred and thirty five one family
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standing. Holdberg's father was her first lieutenant, who had risen from the ranks
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and advanced by no means easy or usual in his day. The mother,
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a woman of keen intelligence, was the grand daughter of a bishop two development
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twenty seventeen one interests C two two two Education. After the death of his
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parents, Ludwig was taken into the home of an uncle, who sent him
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at the age of ten to a Laddin school in preparation for the profession of
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arms. His education was interrupted soon after when he was adopted by a cousin,
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but latter resumed because of his own keen desire. Again with his uncle,
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the boy continued to attendance at the Ladin school until he was eighteen.
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Three schools standing in progress no record four Friends and associates, snow record five
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reading, no Record six production achievement, no record seven evidences of precocity C
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two two b I i Q one twenty little Coach of data point two zero
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development. From seventeen to twenty six holdwork. Entered the University of Kopenhagen at
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eighteen, interrupted his studies for a short period of tutoring, and then returning
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received his university degree at the age of twenty. He worked hard at French
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English and Italian and obtained honors in theology, but fund scholastic philosophy distasteful.
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A period of travel and twittering followed. In the course of his journeys,
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he came to Oxford, where the great libraries first aroused in him the wish
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to be in author and to hail, where he met the German philosopher Thomasius,
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whose influence is noticeable in his early work. A twenty five of youth
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returned to Copenhagen, where he remained four years, holding a teaching position in
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Borch's College. B I i i Q one in thirty five were that of
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Koshnotata point four three, Robert E. Lee eight of seven to eighteen seventy,
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an American general b i i Q one, and thirty b I i
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i Q one hundred thirty one. Family standing. Both of Lee's parents belonged
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to colonial families of high standing. The father, a member of an ancient
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family of Norman descent and at one time governor of Virginia, is said to
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have been a more in petuous spirit than his son. The mother, who
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was for many years an invalid, taught Robert through her own example an important
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lesson in self denial. Self control and economy two developmentwage seventeen one interests.
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Horses were always a delight to Robert, and as a boy he followed the
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hunt for hours without fatigue. Two Education. In order that the children might
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be educated, the family moved to Alexandria, and Lee's first attendance at school
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was at the Academy of that city. Three schools standing in progress. At
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school, Robert was attentive, diligent, methodical, and correct in deportment.
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Four Friends and associates, no record, five reading, no record six Production
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and achievement. After the death of his father, which occurred when he was
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eleven, the boys served as housekeeper and nurse for his invalid mother, riding
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out with her in the carriage and doing the marketing for the family. Seven.
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This is precocity. Both of his elder brothers were very clever and possibly
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overshadowed Robert, but the striking qualities of his character were early observable before he
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was eleven. His father wrote of him that he was always good. At
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the age of eleven, when his father died, he was old beyond his
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years, and of a thoughtfulness, a sense of fleal obligation, and a
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warm affection for his parents that aided him to accept responsibilities of which a few
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boys of his age would have been capable. As a latter fifteen or sixteen,
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he was considered by relatives a youth of great promise. See also two
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six b i Q one thirty relative coach let at punt four three three development
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from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen and eighteen, Lee was an exemplary
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student at Mister Hallowell School preparatory to entering West Point. His speciality was finishing
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up at West Point AG eight ten twenty two. Lee received not one demerit
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mark and graduated second in a class of forty SAE. Immediately afterward, he
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received an appointment as a second Lieutenant of Engineers in the Sea Coast Defense.
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His marriage at twenty four was a culination of a romance which dated from his
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cadet days b i i Q one thirty relative Coast of Dead A point five
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three. David Livingstone eighteen thirteen to eighteen seventy three, a celebrated African explorer
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and missionary b i Q one in thirty five b i Q one hundred and
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forty one family standing among the paternal ancestors of the Livingstone family there was said
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to have been for six generations not a dishonest man, nor ever a Livingstone
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who was a donkey. The father served an apprenticeship to a tailor and married
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the tailor's daughter, but eventually became a small tea dealer. He served for
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twenty years as deacon in the independent Church. The mother, a delicate woman
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with a flow of good spirits, did it best to make two ends meet.
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The Livingstone home was marked by honesty, thrift, self restraint, love
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of books, and the fear of God. Two Development Wege, seventeen one.
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Interests. Livingstone's interest in study was intense c. Two three. His
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reading apparently stimulated him discover the countryside in holidays collecting samples mentioned it Culpeper's herbal.
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Before he was ten, he had begun to collect flowers and shells,
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and he liked sports, especially swimming and fishing. To education. While employed
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in a Cordon factory, Livingstone, aged ten or more, studied Latin at
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the factory evening school three schools standing in progress. Even at the factory,
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where the work day lasted from six a m To eight p m. He
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would study while he worked, placing his book on the spinning jenny in front
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of him, and at home he would continue reading until midnight if his mother
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did not interfere. Four Friends and Associates, No Record five reading. During
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the factory period EI ten to nineteen, Livingstone read everything he get hold of,
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except novels, which were banned by his father. He bought Ruddiman's Rudiments
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of Latin out of his first week's wages. He learned to know Virgil and
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horrorce Well. Scientific books and books of travel were a sposure to light,
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but dry doctoral reading were distasteful. The boy was whipped by his father for
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refusing to read Wilberforce's but Christianity it disliked all religious reading until in his latter
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teens he found from Dick's Philosophy of Religion and the Philosophy of Our Future State
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their religion and science were not hostile. Six production achievement. Before he was
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ten years old, Livingstone had won twofold distinction. He had carried off the
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price for repeating the whole of the one hundred and nineteenth's arm with only five
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hitches, and he had carved his name in the ruins of both bothwell Castle
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and a higher point than any other boy. His reported that he would scrub
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for his mother if the public were barred from seeing him at so familiar a
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task. Livingstone's work in the factory as pisser began his eleventh year in holidays.
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From his occupation, he collected wild flowers, carboniferous shells, and fossils,
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and his own observation led him to question the explanation that when God made
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the rocks, he made the shells in them seven evidence of a precocity.
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At the age of twelve, David began to reflect on his state of his
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cinero, but he could not at that time reconcile Religion and Sciences also two
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three, five and six b i Q. Oneundred and thirty five relative Kosher
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data point four three three development from seventeen to twenty six. Before the age
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of nineteen, Livingstone's missionary interest was aroused by the formation of a missionary society
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Implantaidu, and at this time he determined to become a medical missionary in China.
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Promoted in the factory of nineteen from piercing to cotton spinning, he was
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soon well enough paid to permit his attendants at medical and Greek classes in the
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winter and divinity lectures in the summer. At twenty two, he attended also
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an evening class in chemistry, to which he walked eight miles after the day's
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work. At twenty five he was accepted for service by the London Missionary Society,
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a non sectarian organization, and was sent for three months probation of training
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to a clerical tutor b i i q Watchen forty relative koshevit a Punt four
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three. Hugh Miller agan O two to eighteen fifty six, Scottish geologist and
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writer b i q Waeant thirty five b i i q one hundred thirty one.
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Family standing. Miller's father, descendant from a long line of sea faring
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Scandinavians, at first put to sea at seven or eight years of age,
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and at thirty owned his own sloop. He was a sturdiest among five hundred
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table bodied seaman, and was possessed of humor and a soft and genial nature.
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The mother, simple, confiding and affectionate, was much younger than her
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husband two de Vermoie Tweente seventeen one interests. During his school day, Hugh
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cared little for boyish amusements. He preferred to spend his time wandering over pebble
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beds, learning to distinguish their various components, and so fond was he of
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his pastime that he played drawn from school to indulge in it. He learned
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from an uncle to observe fish and sea anmals. A learning playee, carried
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out more military tactics on the sand with different colored shells for the various troops.
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During school vacations, he was the leader of a gang of boys and
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enjoyed exploring caves, living in wild places, and performing such pranks as apple
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stealing. Two education. At the age of four or five, Hugh learned
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to read at a damed school. Latter and until he was fourteen years old,
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he attended the grammar school of the parish Grammartis. From fourteen to sixteen
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he was enrolled in a subscription school three schools standing in progress. Under the
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guidance of an old Dame, Hughes spelled his way through the Shordou coachisms,
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the Proverbs, and the New Testament at the Paris a score, and on
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recommendation of his master, he was transferred from the English to the Latin form.
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Because he always substituted a synonym for a word missed in any of his
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English tasks. In rudiments, he was usually behind his schoolfellows, who were
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by no means bright, because he found the formal studies dull. But he
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excelled in translation because he could remember word for word the translation which the master
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gave when he assigned the listen. At sixteen, having quarreled with the master
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over the spelling of a word, he left school, never to return.
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Four friends and associates. Only one friend bore younger than himself were John Hugh.
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In his earliest natural history excursions, Balletto, an adventurous gang followed the
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young naturalist and recognized him as a leader. Five. Reading. Hugh learned
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at Dame's School that the art of reading was the art of finding stories and
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books. He spent out of school hours reading Bible stories. He collected the
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library of such books as Jack, the Giant Killer, Sindbad, the Sailor
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Aladdin. From his sixth through his eleventh year, his reading included post translation
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of the Odyssey and the Iliad, Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels,
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Ambrose on Angels, a rare copy of the Miracles of Nature and Art,
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and accounts the voyages of Anson, Drake, Raleigh, Dampierre and Captain
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Woods Rogers. At ten years of age, his patriotism was stirred by Blind
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Harry's Wallace. Between the ages of six and sixteen, the boy used to
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read in school for pleasure Tryden's Virgil and Ovid. An odd book collector allowed
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the boy to read his volumes of the British essays from Addison to Mackenzie,
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books of Travelin's translation from the German of Vlefetier, Zimmermann and Klopstock. Sometime
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during his early tiens he began to read theological Discussions six Production Achievement, when
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he was not more than ten years of age. His schoolmaster commended the sense
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of a poem of care, which he found in the boy's copy book,
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although he criticized the spelling, grammar and punctuation. During his only grammar school
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years, the boy, aged six to twelve, is to relate to his
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schoolmates all the stories he had read, in addition to new ones of his
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own invention of warriors, voyagers and dwellers on desolate islands. Before he left
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the grammar school, he had made his first studies of Earth and Nature.
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Is reported that he discovered garnates on the shore by noting their resemblance to his
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mother's brooch, that he learned by observation to understand some of the simpler instincts
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of insects, and that he discovered in an old cave some burns of animals
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from another age. He also constructed a miniature boat after the plan of a
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print he had seen in a book. On ten or twelve, he wrote
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in verse on account of his experience when trapped in a sea cave, winning
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praise from the townsfolk for his production. A little later he was filling his
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copy books with verses and original prose. He is said with edit to little
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paper the village Observer. During this period, on long tours with his cousin
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about the country side, he would tell stories ten, fifteen or thirty miles
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long, according to the length of the journey. At the age of sixteen,
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he constructed an er genious path to an otherwise inner accessible rock, winning
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the uesteem of an old soldier of Wellington's army by his device seven evidences of
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precocity. At before the age of five, Hugh had already acquired our knowledge
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of letters, by studying trade signs, where various articles were pictured and named.
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B i Q wanted thirty five relative kosh of data point six zero three
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development from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen, resisting the offers of two
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uncles who volunteered to support him, Eve would go to college. Miller apprenticed
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himself for three years to a mason, the husband of his aunt. During
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the period of his apprenticeship, he collected geological specimens and the evenings and on
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long holidays, studied and recorded his philosophic and poetic musings. From the age
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of twenty to twenty three he was a journeyman Mason Evron twenty two to twenty
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three, a stone cuttero keeping up in the meantime. Both his reading and
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his writing. Poems written during this period were later published. B i i
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i Q wanted thirty relative kosh of data point five three. Leon Caimbetta eighteen
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thirty eight to eighteen eight two, a French statesman b i Q one undred
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forty b IQ one hundred forty one family sturning. Cambetta's paternal ancestors had followed
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the sea. Although Leon's father, a man of Ready tongue was respected for
37:17
his honesty and integrity. He did not strike his neighbors as either very intelligent
37:22
or very prudent. The mother, daughter of a chemist, is said to
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have had a charming and affectionate disposition. Two development to age seventeen. One
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interests. At the age of twelve, Leon had decided to become a sailor,
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who met his father's objection to this plan by saying, we die only
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when we have to. After all, one may escape the greatest dangers,
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only to perish by some apparently trifling cause. The first demonstration the boy's taunted
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republicanism occurred when, at the age of eleven, he joined in burning Louis
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Napoleon in Evigy, an exploit for which he was nearly expelled from school.
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Two Education at four years of age can better first atturn at school than he
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learned to read. The years from nine to fourteen were spent attending the Seminary
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of Montfaucan, the succeeding four years at the la Sie of Cahors. Three
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schools standing in progress. The boy's recitations, improvisations and harangues to his school
38:20
fellows at the seminary promised well for the future politician. His letters were those
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of an affectionate child, but a mediocre scholar. However, his first schoolmaster
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said that at ten years of age he was more intelligent than most boys of
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that age, so he was able, though giving less time to his studies,
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to do more than his school fellows. He excelled in history, Latin
38:39
and composition. The same master also referred to his pupil's keen, quick and
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observant mind. Although little Gambetta was careless of his appearance and of his exercises,
38:50
which were often dirty and untidy. Nevertheless, he won in the eighth
38:53
form at the age of nine o ten a first prize for reading and a
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mentioned for history. Improving in the seventh form at ten or eleven, he
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won prize in history, geography and reading, and the highest mentioned for Latin
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composition, History, geography and writing. His twelfth year and accident, which
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occasioned the loss of an eye, was a cause of a delay in his
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school progress. By the age of twelve, he began to rank first or
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second in Latin in a class of twenty six, and a fourteen year received
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first prize in Ancient History and Latin version, an honorable mention of a Greek
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and Latin themes grammar and geography. The headmaster of La SI reported when Campettter
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was fifteen, ye had a great deal of aptitude. He is a good
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boy, but too thoughtless. He does not make as much progress as he
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ought to. At sixteen seventeen he was told by his tour that he had
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exceptional talents, particularly for oratory. Four friends and associates, no record five
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reading, No record six reduction achievements, no record seven evidences of precocity.
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A note written by Gambetta at the age of ten to his father concludes with
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the Republican cry, long lived Cavagnac, down with Bonaparte. The young enthusiast
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early expressed the apeon that Napoleon was as stupid as an ostrich is. Also
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two one b I i Q one forty were that of kash of data point
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seven five three development from seventeen to twenty six, after finishing his college course,
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in which he had done good work in the classical languages, history and
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cosmography, he had won several prizes competitor. At eighteen traveled for a time
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with his father in Italy, and then began the study of law. In
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Paris. During the period's study, he contributed articles to a liberal journal.
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At twenty two he passed his law examinations brilliantly, and the following year was
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practicing law with noteworthy success. At twenty five was appointed a member of the
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Republican committee to draw up the list of legislative candidates. B I I i
40:51
Q one forty were that of coast of data point six zero. Nathaniel Hawthorne,
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aged four to eighteen sixty four an American novelist b I i Q one
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and forty b I I i Q one hundred thirty five one. Family standing.
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Hawthorn was descended from English colonial stock. His father, a sea captain,
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was a silent, reserved, stern melancholy man who carried his books to
41:15
sea. He was fond of children. The mother was beautiful and ascetic in
41:21
the human rather than in the religious way. She is said to have fine
41:24
traits of intellect and character. Two Development, twenty seventeen, one interests.
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Hawthorne wrote, one of the peculiarities of my boyhood was a grievous disinclination to
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go to school. As a very young child, Nathaniel had a strong desire
41:42
to follow his father to see a little later. His tastes were, for
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the most part of a quieter sort. He was extremely fond of animals,
41:50
and during a prolonged period of lameness, he amused himself by knitting a pair
41:52
of socks for the household cat, and by constructing houses of books for her.
41:58
Still he was also a good deal of sportsmen as to fishing and hunting,
42:01
and when the family moved to Maine, he ran quite wild, learning
42:06
in the main woods his cursed habit of solitude, in which he would skate
42:10
alone until midnight. At sixteen, the youth suffered some indecision as to going
42:15
to college, but finally, because of his thought of becoming an author,
42:19
he became reconciled to the idea two education. Hawthorne went to school half as
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much as other boys, partially owing to delicate health and partially because much of
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his time there were no schools within reach. He carried on his primary studies
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with the Tuto and also attendant Downting School. From thirteen to fifteen, he
42:37
had a regular schooling with a somewhat eccentric graduate of Harvard. At fifteen,
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he attended school in Salem to prepare for college, and at sixteen he studied
42:45
with a lawyer. Three schools standing in progress, no record except of his
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disliked school C. Two one four Friends and associates. None of his associates
42:58
are mentioned, other than relatives, including his specially his sister. With her
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he carried on an intimate correspondence when she was absent from home. Five Reading
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when he was six years old, Hawthorne's favorite book was Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,
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which he would read by the hour without once speaking. During his period of
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lameness aged nine to twelve, he would read all day long, especially Shakespeare,
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Pilgrim's Progress, and any poetry within reach. He also made himself familiar
43:25
with Spencer's Fairy Queen, Froussit's Chronicles and Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, Milton,
43:31
Pope, Ciliad and The Spectator. Stern comments that it is somewhat exceptional
43:37
for a child of ten to enjoy the Fairy Queen. Hawthoran was the exceptional
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child, and this book was the first that he bought with his own money.
43:45
At fifteen, he was reading Waverley and other romances. At sixteen,
43:50
he had read all of Scott's novels then published, except the Abbot six's production
43:55
achievement. During the years of his lameness, Nathani was sum time times invented
44:00
to temporaneous stories, and these invariably commenced with a voyage to some foreign country.
44:06
A letter to his uncle was preserved, written at the age of nine,
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in which he discusses in a childlike but intelligent fashion, his lameness and
44:13
the prospects for his recovery. At twelve and a half he composed a poem,
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and this was followed before the age of seventeen by a number of other
44:20
literary productions. He has said also to have kept a diary in his early
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teens. As sixteen, he yearned some money by writing in the office of
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an uncle. At the same age he pulled out five successive issues of The
44:34
Spectator, a weekly journal, put it with pend On in small notepaper.
44:37
His contributions show a dry humor and mastered the art of presenting true fiction.
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Seven evidence of precocity. At five, Nathaniel was a vivacious, golden haired
44:49
boy, running and dancing at play. When he could scarcely speak plainly,
44:52
he would go about the house repeating for hamm and emphasis certain stagy lines from
44:57
Shakespeare's Richard the Third, which he had overheard from older persons about him.
45:00
In boyhood, he already displayed a tendency toward a dry humor. He is
45:05
related how he gave an excuse for frequent fights with Jordan Knights, that John
45:09
Knights is a boy with a very quorelesome disposition. Si also two five and
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six b i q onere forty relific kach of deat points seventy five three Development
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from seventeen to twenty six. Hawthorne entered Baldoin College at seventeen, and touring
45:24
the next four years, he did commendable work in Latin and English composition,
45:30
though he was slow in mathematics and metaphysics. In spite of the fact that
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he was, according to his latter admission, an idle student negligent of college
45:37
rules, he assimilated the knowledge that he cared for with great ease. By
45:42
that college, he determined to become an author, and he wrote several tales
45:45
unpublished before Foreshow appeared. The latter was published by the author then in his
45:49
twenty fifth year, at his own expense. B i Q Quad thirty five
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relive kash of data point six to zero in thirty seven