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XIX. CASES RATED AT AI IQ 150 to 160. Part 3 · Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses

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Section thirty one of Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume two, The Early Mental
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Traits of three hundred Geniuses by Katherine Cox. This is a liberyvox according all
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Liberyvox accordings in the public domain. For more informational to volunteer, please visit
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Libervox at Orgue recorded by Leon Harvey, Chapter nineteen cases radi at AIQ one
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undred fifty two, one hundred and sixty Part three. William Wordsworth seventeen seventy
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to eighteen fifty, a celebrated English poet aiq one hundred and fifty AIQ one
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hundred and fifty five one family standing. The Wordsworth had been for generations eomen
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or farming proprietors, papal of some importance in the community. The father,
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a man of intelligence and energy, was an attorney and agent of Lord Lonsdale.
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The maternal grandfather was a mercer of a narrow, unyielding clan. The
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mother personified for a sign intoit of wisdom, as she was the first to
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foresee his genius two develoment to age seventeen one interests. William was always fond
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of outdoor activity. As a mere infant, he rode over the hills with
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his father. He played outdoor games with his sister, and he engaged with
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the other boys in trapping birds, hunting eggs, exploring for nuts, flying
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kites, fishing, and skating. He also loved to listen to the tales
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and legends of the Old Dame, with whom he boarded. At ten,
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he first began to hold communion with nature in that mystic bond which he held
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throughout his life, and before he was fifteen he seems to recognize his calling
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as a poet and interpreter of nature. Two education. After a turning at
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Dame's School, William entered the Cockermouth School, where he began the study of
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Latin, the work of committing to memory long pastures of Shakespeare, Milton,
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and and so proved of infinitely greater value to him than the regular school instruction.
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At the age of eight, Arthur his mother's death, the boy was
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sent to the free grammar school at Hawkshead, which he attended thereafter for six
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years from fourteen to eighteen. In scored Hawkshead, Wordsworth studied mathematics and the
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elements of Greek and Latin, which he learned very rapidly from an excellent master,
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three schools standing in progress. No specific record is preserved beyond the evidence
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of the lines in which he refers to himself as a boy beyond his age,
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advanced in sympathy with mature minds, four friends and associates. In spite
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of the perverse and obstinate strain in his nature, Wordsworth as a boy was
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gentle, social and fond of play with his fellows. Its friends included high
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and low in all the countryside. His sister's warm friend and Admira thought William
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the cleverest of her brothers, with Christopher Letter eminentus scholar and padagogue very near
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in ability, though not so near in affection. Five reading left much at
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liberty In his school days. Wordsworth aga to fourteen red Fielding's works, Don
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Quixote, Gil Blass, Swift, Robin Hood's Exploits, the Adventures of Jack
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the Giant Killer, and Fortunatus. In the holidays of this period he spoiled
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his fishing venturers by attending to his book and forgetting his line. From the
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age of fourteen to eighteen he read voraciously romances, legends, fictions of love,
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and tales of warlike adventurer. At school, he became familiar with some
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English poets, especially Goldsmith and Gray, many of whose poems he learned by
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heart. He was an enthusiastic ammirer of Ovid Burns. Was also a favorite
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parts of the Iliad he read aloud to his sister. Six. Production and
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Achievement. Wordsworth's first verses, written before he was fourteen, were a task
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imposed by a schoolmaster. The subject was the summer vacation, to which the
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poet added the return to school. At fifteen, the boy was called upon,
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among others, to write verses for a score celebration. His liones one
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Udre twelve in number, written in the manner of pope, were much admired.
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At sixteen, William composed a long poem about his own adventures, of
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which her part, perhaps in a revised form, serves as the introduction to
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his writings. The same he wrote the lines beginning calm is all Nature as
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arresting will Before he was seventeen, his first printed poem had appeared in the
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European magazine seven Evidences of Precocity. Wordsworth's mother foresaw that o' william would be
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remarkable either for good or for evil. Sei also two six Ai q onere
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and fifty relative kosher debt up point seventy five three. Development. From seventeen
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to twenty six, young Wordsworth spent four years at Cambridge, graduating BA at
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the age of twenty one. Nowether the poet or the university camp be said
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to have been benefited by his attendants, for the one worked aimlessly, except
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perhaps in Italian, while the other failed to inspire her pupil's nature his earlier
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teacher had done. During his third vacation, Wordsworth made a tour through France
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and Switzerland, in Prisons, of which were published some two years later.
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On the completion of his university career, Wordsworth went to London, still without
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purpose, and shortly after, aged twenty one, to France. Whether his
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sympathy with revolutionary ideals had attracted him. Here he had a love affair with
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the daughter of a royalist family, and he became a friend of a French
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officer, through whom he learned to understand the causes of the revolution and to
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trace them to the fountain springs of human nature. With England's declaration of war,
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Wordsworth took himself away from France, and still undecided as to a career
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returned to his family. Although disappointed by the deeds of the Young Republic,
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the poet attained his revolutionary principles, and his poem Guilt and Sorrow, published
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when its aunt was twenty four, reflects his own views colored by the influence
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of Godwin, and twenty five Wordsworth met Coleridge, who was convinced of the
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young poet's genius. He commences dramatic poem The Boarders the same year. A
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I I i Q one t fifty five relived Cochterdetta point seventy five, Mary
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Jane Antonine Nicholas Carett Marquis di Concordette seventeen forty three to seventeen ninety four,
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a celebrated French philosopher and mathematician A i Q one hundred fifty five A I
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I i Q one hundred sixty five one family standing. The paternal ancestors of
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Condorcet were noble men long established in d'orphany near Lyons. Condorcet's father was a
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cavalry captain and an uncle, and several other collateral ancestors achieved the highest distinction
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as prelates in the Catholic Church. Condorcet's mother is mentionally as having been very
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devout two development twage seventeen one interests. No interests are recorded apart from studies.
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Two education. At his birth, Condorcet was dedicated by his mother to
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the Virgin, and for the first eight years of his life was dressed in
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girl's clothes, a circumstance which not only hindered his fiscal development by introducting exercise,
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but prevented his entering the public schools, where his eccentricity of dress would
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naturally have excited derision. At eleven, however, he was rescued from his
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peculiar applied by an uncle, who placed him in the Jesuit School at Rheims,
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where he continued for four years. At the age of fifteen, he
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commenced his mathematical studies in the College of an Affair at Paris, three schools
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standing on progress. Once en rolled in school, Condorcet's progress appears to have
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been rapid. At thirteen, he carried off the second prize in the Jesuits
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School at Rims at ten months as entering the College of Navair, he maintained
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a very difficult analytical thesis, with such distinction that Claren Dalmbert and Fontaine,
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who examined him, held him as a future member of the Academy. Four
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friends and associates, no record, five reading, no specific record six production
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achievement C two three, seven Evidences of precocity C. Two three aio q
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qattion fifty five will have coached did ap point five three three development from seventeen
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to twenty six. When Condorcet left college at seventeen, he was already a
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philosophical thinker. Wrote thirty on such problems as the value to man of justice
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and virtue. He decided that, in order not to destroy his natural sensibility,
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he might strengthen his own understanding of the meaning of ethical values. Accordingly,
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he renounced all killing, even of insects, provided they were not Halffull.
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Condorcet's first work was an essay on the integral calculus, which he preserved
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when he was twenty two. Dallenbird said, this work indicates great talent and
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lagrange. It opens for us a new field for the perfection of the integral
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calculus. A twenty five Condorcet might have entered the Academy, but the reception
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was postponed for a year owing to the objections of his parents who oppose their
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son's plan to embrace a scientific career. Condorcet's talents turned in the direction of
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social economy and politics. His own statement of the reason for abandoning a field
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where distinction and fame awaited him was that it seems called to work only for
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vanglory when one desires to be working for the public good a i q.
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One undred and sixty five relived Koshertet A point seventy five. Georgies Leopold Tretienne
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Frederic Daugebert Cuvier seventeen sixty nine to eighteen thirty two, a celebrated French naturalist,
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the founder of the science of comparative anatomy AQ One undred and fifty five
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AIQ one hundred and sixty one. Family standing. Trevier's father so distinguished himself
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as a member of a Swiss vegemin in the service of France that he received
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the Order of Merit. After forty years of service. He retired on a
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small pension to Montebellerd, where he was afterwards appointed commander of artillery. Curvier's
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mother was an excellent and gifted woman who held throughout her life the devoted affection
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of a distinguished son two development, age seventeen one interests. The history of
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mankind was from the earliest period of his Curvier's life a subject to the most
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indefectible application, and long lists of foot sovereigns, princes, and the driest
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chronological facts, once arranged in his memory, were never forgotten. The youth
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delighted in reducing maps to a very small scale, which, when completed,
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were given to his companions. When his mother drove him from study, he
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entered with equal ardor into boyish sports, and was foremost in all youthful recreations.
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His taste for natural history was brought to light by acquaintance with a gastener
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with colored plates in the school library, and by careful examination of a complete
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copy of Buffin belonging to a relative to whom on this account young Curvier made
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frequent visits. By the time he was twelve years old, the youth was
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as familiar with animals and birds as a first rate naturalist. He copied the
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plates of Gesner's work and coloured them according to the printed descriptions, either with
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paint or pieces of silk. At Stuttgart Academy he chose a study of administration
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because it afforded him many opportunities for pursuing natural history, for botanizing, and
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for visiting collections. If prompered by all these opportunities, in his walks,
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he collected a very considerable herbarium, and during his hours of recreation he drew
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and colored an immense number of insects, birds, and plants with the most
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surprising correctness and fidelity. He is said to have launched upon the scientific study
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of natural history entirely upon his own initiative and without any assistance. During a
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vacation, Cavier made an excursion into the Alps and came back with a report
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a companied by a large number of drawings, not only along the line of
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natural science, but also of different machines he had seen along the way.
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Two education curvious mother devoted herself to the care of her son's frail body and
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to the development of his unusual mind. She guided him and his religious duties,
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taught him to read forwardly the age of four years, took him every
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morning to an elementary school, and though her self ignorant of Latin, she
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made repeat his lessons to her so scrupulously that he was always better prepared with
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his tasks than was any other boy at school. Her son studied drawing under
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her inspection, and when he advanced in the art beyond the limits of her
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teaching, his progress was superintendent by one of his relatives, an architect.
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Attenne. Cuvier was placed in a high school, where in a four years
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course he studied all the subjects taught, including rhetoric. Because he was destined
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for the church, he heard went to the free school at Dubingingen, where
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preparation was afforded for the theological course. Owing to a peculiar chance c.
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Two three, Curvey was not recommended for Tubingen, but under the patronage of
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the Duke of Wurttemburg, he was sent instead to the Academy Carilined in Stuttgarte,
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which he had tended for four years, aged fourteen nineteen, studying all
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that was taught in the highest classes mathematics, law, medicine, administration,
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tactics, commerce, et cetera. During the first year he took the general
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philosophical course, for as Sagney chose a study of administration, which in Germany
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included practical and elementary law, finance, police, agriculture, technology, et
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cetera. Three schools standing in progress. Before he was ten, young Curvier
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had passed through all the exercises of his first school, repeating the usual catechisms,
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though of psalms of David, the science of Dreland Court, et cetera,
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with the utmost facility. In his second school, age ten to fourteen,
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he had no difficulty in acquiring Latin and Greek, and he was constantly
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at the head of the classes in history, geography and mathod Madix, the
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chief of the gymnays at Montepillaerd, who had never forgiven the young Curvier for
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some charterish tricks, changed his destiny by placing his composition in the third rank
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when the pupils presented their themes for places. George Curvier felt that his production
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was equally good with those which had hitherto been judged worthy of the first rank,
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and at the important moment, when his station at college depended on his
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success, he was for nun conscious fault kept back. He became disgusted at
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this injustice and gave up all thoughts of Tubingen. When he entered the academy
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in Stuttgart, he was only fourteen, but in consequence of the preparation he
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had undergone, he was able to take his place among the most celebrated students
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of the academy. During the four years course in the academy, Curvey obtained
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various prizes and the Order of Chivalry, an honor granted to no more than
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five or six out of four hundred pupils. At fifteen years of age,
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nine months after his arrival at Stuttgart, Curvier bore off the prize for the
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German language, although he had been entirely ignorant of this language when he entered
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the academy. Four friends and associates, the Princess of Wurtemberg recommended Curvier to
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the attention of her brother, the Duke, who, after interviewing the youth
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and examining his drawings, took him under his special favor and educated him.
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As Stuttgart, Curvier was associated with Hartman Leder, entomologist Marshal who became a
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diplomat, and Leopold, who was afterward a high public official of Wurtemburg.
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Five Reading Curvier's mother, by constantly furnishing her son with the best works on
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history and general Luccio nurtured that passion for reading, that ardent desire for knowledge
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which became the principal spring of his intellectual existence. The boy's love for reading
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became so great if Apore was fourteen that his mother feared the effect of so
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much application to sedentary pursuits and forced him to seek other employments. From his
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twelfth to thirteenth year, he was never without volume of Gesner in his pocket.
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Frequently he had to be roused from the pages of his favorite work to
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take his place in the class reading Cicero and Virgil. During the Studdeguart years,
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Curvier frequently read over Linnaeus, Reinhardt, Moore, and Fabricius six production
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achievement C. Two one. At the age of fourteen, Curvier chose a
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certain number of his schoolfellows and constituted them into an academy, of which he
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was appointed president. He gave the regulations and fixed the meanings for every Thursday
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at a sealed hour, and set on his bed, and placing his companions
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round a table, Hi ordered that some work should be read which treated either
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of natural history, philosophy, history, or travels. The merits of the
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book were then discussed, after which the youthful president summed up the whole and
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pronounced the sort of judgment on the matter contained in it, which judgment was
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always strictly adopted by his disciples. At fourteen, Curvier was remarkable for his
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declamatory powers, an exhibition of which, given on the occasion of the anniversary
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Fate of Duke Charles, astonished the whole audience. As Stuttgart, Curvier again
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founded a special Society for the Study of Natural Science, and again he became
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director and president. He and his fellow members collected everything they could find in
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the vicinity, in the line of plants and insects, that read treatises on
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physical and natural history, and Curvier made decorations a Petulanaeus in the center of
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a cross, each arm of which represents some phase of natural science. He
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himself gave out these decorations whenever a particular dissertation pleased him. Curvier and his
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associates collected and classified eight hundred kinds of insects, using Linaeus and Fabritius as
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guides. Seven evidences of precocity C. Two one. While still the child,
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Curvier showed a most extraordinary gift of memory. He retained everything he saw
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and read, and has said that this remarkability he never failed in any part
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of his career, he was often said that he never forgot anything. His
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first for knowledge and his ability to do intellectual work was also boundless. In
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addition to these qualities, he could, by his remarkable talent for drawing,
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reproduce any object. Then Maty's eye. Versatility of talent, including remarkable conversational
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powers, distinguished young Curvier in his earliest years see two one ai Q hundred
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fifty five lived kosh of Dinero point seventy five three, developed from seventeen to
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twenty six. On leaving Stuttgart just before his nineteenth birthday, Curvier was appointed
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tutor to the family of Count de Heresy. At this time, the young
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teacher, in addition to variety and depth of knowledge, already possessed perseverance,
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love of labor, death of reflection, and uprightness of character. While with
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the de Heersy family, here required the manners of the best society and became
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acquainted with some of the most remarkable men of his day. He continued his
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favorite study of zoology VI. The sea induced the study of marine animals.
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The discovery of fossil led to the comparison living in ancient species and a study
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of monuscar influenced him in the development of his views of the whole animal.
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Kingdom Lenaeus had made the class of verms to comprehend organisms of widely diverse degrees
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of complexity. Curvier examined these varieties, grouped them, and classed them according
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to their natural affinities. His extended work on this subject was published when he
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was twenty nine. In the neighboring town of Falmont, he organized a society
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for the Discussion of agriculture, and here he meant Tessier, the author of
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the articles on agriculture in the Encyclopedia Methodic, who had escaped in disguise from
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the terror in Paris the Tersio. Curvier entered into correspondence with the greatest savants
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of the day, including Saint Helier, Lemathrie and Oliveaux, though their influence
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and by reason of the reputation he had won through published scientific memoirs, Curvier,
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at twenty six was appointed professor at the School of the Pantheon in Paris
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a I I I Q. On hundred and sixty Relative Coach of Debt appoint
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seventy five. David Hume seventeen eleven to seventeen seventy eight, a famous Scot's
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philosopher and historian A I i Q one hundred fifty five a I I i
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Q one hundred sixty one family standing on both sides of the house. Hume's
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ancestry was Scottish. A distinguished paternal ancestor was Lord Home of Douglas, who
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fought with the Great Douglas in the Continental Wars and was killed at the Battle
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of Verniwel. The philosopher's father, Joseph Hume, a member of the Faculty
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of Advocates and in his latter years a retired country gentleman, was a man
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of parts. Unfortunately for his son's early training, he died while Dave was
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still an infant. The mother, whose father was Lord President of the Court
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of Sessions at a Ragal and legal Questions, was an attractive woman of singular
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merit, whose portrait is expressive of great intellectual acuteness. She had precisely the
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same constitution as her son. This unusual woman devoted herself entirely to the rearing
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and education of her children. Two development age seventeen one interests, Hume wrote,
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I was seized very early with the passion for literature, which had been
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the ruling passion of my life and a great source of my enjoyments. It
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is said that David Hume was an economist of all his talents. Familiar youth.
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Two Education. After entering the University of Edinburgh at about the age of
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eleven, David seems to have received the usual college education of Scotland, which
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terminates when the student is fourteen or fifteen years old. Evidence of the lad's
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knowledge of the classics is found in the frequent quotations from them used from memory.
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In his later correspondence three School Standing in Progress, Hume reports that he
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passed through the ordinary course with success. Four Friends and associates. He became
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before the age of sixteen, the friend of Michael Ramsey, to whom was
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addressed that remarkable production his first extent letter. Five Reading, Hume says himself
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at the age of fourteen that left to his own choice in the matter reading,
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he was inclined chiefly to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry
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and polite authors. He headed task reading, But his mention of books in
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his letter to Ramsay indicates that this dislike by no means extended to reading in
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general. Six Production achievement. A fragment entitled an Historical Essay on Chivalry and
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Modern Honor has sought have been written before its author was seventeen. It shows
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mature thought and systemac analysis, and is a remarkable early anticipation of Hume's latter
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essays style, and as striking evidence of the power he had already attained of
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looking at his historical subjects from an independent point of view. At this time
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he had also written a number of unusual letters. Seven evidesis of precocity C.
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Two six Above, Hume's mother is aputed to have said, are David's
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fine, good natured cradle, but uncommon wake minded. The good nature of
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Hume was proverbial. What his mother meant by wake minded is left to conjecture
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see above A I I Q on hundred and fifty five. Relative quechumpted at
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point six zero three development from seventeen to twenty six. At about the age
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of seventeen, in accordance with the wish of his relatives, Hume commenced the
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study of law. A little later, he relinguished it abruptly because of his
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own disinclination. In his twenty fourth year, he went to Bristol to become
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a merchant, but after a few months he found this occupation unsuited to his
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tastes. In the following three years he laid in France the foundation for his
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literary career. The Treatise of Human Nature, published when he was twenty eight,
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was written during this period. Three years were occupied of intense study.
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Years there were something less than happy because of lowness of spirits, probably induced
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by the severity of his manner of life. A i i q one hundred
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sixty relative koshened at appoint six zero. Samuel Johnson seventeen o nine seventeen eighty
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four a celebrated English lexicokroffer, essayist and poet. A i i q one
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hundred fifty five a i i i Q one hundred fifty five one family standing.
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Samuel's father, Michael Johnson, a bookseller and stationer of obscure extraction,
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was a fair Latin scholar, one of f Litchfield's magistrates, and a zealous
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high churchman and royalist. He was of a large and robust body and of
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a strong and active mind, but was addicted to vile melancholy. He lost
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a fortune by a venture in manufacturing parchment. Samuel's mother came from an ancient
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race of substantial year memory. She was a woman of great pity and of
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distinguished understanding, Although unacquainted with books and business. The parents were advanced in
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years at the time. Was Samuel's birth to development to age seventeen one interests.
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Young Samuel did not join in the sports at school, perhaps because of
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his defective sight and remarkably large size. As the young child, he had
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been very sickly. He liked to soar torin the fields with the companion,
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but on such occasions he talked more to himself than to his friend. He
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loved to read, and at church time on Sundays he used to go into
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the fields for his books. Two education. While still a child in Petticoats,
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Samuel had learned to read. He was forming verbs when he could not
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speak plain. His first teacher was Dame Oliver, who kept a school for
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small children. Then he studied English with a master who published a spelling book
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and dedicated it to the universe. From his eighth to his tenth year he
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attended the Litchfield Grammar School, a very respectable school, where he began Latin
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with mister Hawkins, the upper master. There learned portions of esau Benjlvichktiers.
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In the upper school he read Phaedrus, the only book the class studied to
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the end. During his sixteenth year he attended the stoar Bridge Grammar School.
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Thereafter he spent several years at home reading many books. Three schools standing in
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progress. Dame Moliver said that Samuel Johnson was the best scholar she had ever
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had. Mister Hawkins indulged in to caressed this pupil, no doubt, because
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he really excelled the rest in Latin. Samuel wrote twenty five exercises, while
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the others completed no more than sixteen, but he would always procrastinate until the
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last hour. His ambition to excel was great, though his application to books
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was apparently trifling. In ability to learn, he far exceeded the other boys.
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In fact, he never corrected at Litchfield, except for diverting the others.
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Only one schoolfellow was as good as scholaris Johnson, and he became a
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canon of Windsor and Stonebridge. The master was very severe Samuel, although this
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was more for lack of reverence in the people's part than for want of ability
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or industry. Four Friends and associates at Litchfield. Edmund Hector Ledter, a
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surgeon in Birmingham, was Samuel's close friend. A school, the boys tried
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by flattery to gain Johnson's assistance in their lessons, even at times carrying him
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to school on their backs. At the age fifteen, Samuel became acquainted with
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a quakeress, with whom he measured himself seriously in love. Five Reading When
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a boy, Johnson was immoderately fond of reading romances of Chivalry. Upon his
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earliest years, he had a passion for poetry. He read Shakespeares so early,
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not nine years, that the recollection of the speech of the Ghost in
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Hamlet terrified him for some time after. Whenever he was alone. Between his
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seventeenth and his nineteenth year, he read at home agreed many books which were
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not commonly known at the universities. Six Production achievement. He often dictated verses
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or themes, but it would never take the trouble to write. Before he
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was fifteen, he had shown poetical ability in school exercises in other compositions,
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and had made a number of translations in verse from Virgil, Horace and Homer.
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The lines to a young lady on her birthday were almost impromptu. Seven
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evidences of precocity. At the age of three, Samuel could not be kept
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at home when he heard that the popular divine Sacheverel was preaching at Litchfield.
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He had listened and looked attenterly at children petticoats. He memorized the collect for
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the day from the common Prayer Book while his mother was going upstairs, though
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he could not have read it more than twice. In order to avoid exhibition
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as a prodigy of understanding, he used to run up a tree and nine.
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He perceived the power of continuity of attention, and applied himself so closely
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to an exercise that he was scarcely aware of the lapse of time. He
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was always uncommonly inquisitive, and his memory was very tenasius. Once a friend
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rehearsed to him eighteen verses, which which, after a little pause, he
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was able to remit a verbatting, except for one epithet, which he ordered
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to improve. The line ai i Q one of fifty five relived coach of
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debt at points them five three development From seventeen twenty six nineteen Johnson entered Pembroke
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College, Oxford. The best qualified that doctor Adams had ever known, came
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there. During the first year he wrote in Virgilian versification and apology for neglecting
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and exercise. He translated Pope's Messia to Latin Verse with uncommon rapidity and in
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a masterly manner, which won the highest stem of his college and even of
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Pope himself. His reading range widely, beginning to think earnestly of religion,
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he read Law's Serious Call to Holy Life, he studied intimately his favorite subject,
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met at physics, and he read the Greek authors. On one occasion
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he wrote, with extraordinary acuteness and eloquence, a statement in Latin describing the
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horrible hypochondria from which he suffered his affliction created in Johnson's somewhat erratic and Kurle's
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habits. As a student, he never rewrote his exercises, and he even
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neglected his first declamation until the morning he was to repeat it. Because of
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his poverty, he was in residence at a college very little of the time
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from his twenty first to his twenty thirty year. At twenty two, he
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was employed as an usher in a school for a few months but he found
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the duties to irksome for his impatient tembo. At the age of twenty three,
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he began his first prose work, a translation of Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia,
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the preface which shows her characteristic Johnsyene's style. However, for the next
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two years his literary efforts failed to bring him any income. A I i
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Q onuntri fifty five without coach of debt at points seventy five. Sir Robert
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Peel seventeen eighty had tw eighteen fifty a noted English statesman a I i Q
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one hundred fifty five a I I i Q one hundred seventy one founily standing.
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The Peel family were Yorkshire farmers who became weaver's spinners and a calico printers.
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The grandfather, a calico printer, developed a successful business. The father,
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a man of sagacity, energy and thrift, an originator and reformer in
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his business, was a statesman as well as a great manufacturer. He became
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in Parliament and arded adherent of pitt. The mother was a beautiful and charming
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woman of the same class as society as her husband. To develop a Twarges
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seventeen one interests. Peel was a studious boy, anxious to qut about his
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own mind and his own faculties to their very utmost rather inclined, perhaps in
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over calculation. He was a good boy of gentle manners, quick in feeling,
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very sensitive, impatient of opposition from his young companions, and dreading ridicule
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over much. His sensitiveness was physical as well as moral. At school,
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Robert was never in scrapes. He was indolent as to physical exertion, but
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overflowing of mental energy, and gifted with the most remarks facility for acquiring knowledge.
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His habits were less social than were those of most of the boys.
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While others were engaged in sport, he was stalling for the woods, communion
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with nature, or with himself. Warmly attached to field sports and something of
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a marksman, he took during his last year at Harrow considerable part in football,
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and his strength and pluck caused him to be considered one of the best
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players in the school. Byron, who was his classmate even then, predicted
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that Peel would some day become a great orator. Two. Education, Robert's
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father determined that no effort should be spared to educate his son to the level
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of the career to which he believed him destined. As a boy grew,
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his parents set to work seriously on the manufacture of another pit. At about
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five years of age, Robert was placed under the instruction of the Curate of
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Bury, with whom he remained for four years. At the age of ten,
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he was sent to the Vicar of Tamworth, who had an excellent school
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patronized by the principal country gentleman in the neighborhood. When he was almost thirteen,
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his father, wishing to send him to the best public school, selected
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Harrow, which the boy thereafter attended till he was nearly seventeen. He spent
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the month's intero venue between the end of school days and entrance to Oxford in
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regular tenants at the House of Commons, and in visiting letteris on natural science
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at the Royal Institution, three schools standing in progress. By the time he
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was ten, Robert had learned much from his father, much more by his
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own reading, and from his tutor, very little that there being in English,
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Latin and general knowledge. His classical studies did not extend beyond the Latin
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grammar. At Tamworth, Peel soon became, by application and ability, the
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best scholar of his age, As saying of his schoolmasters was to the effect
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that Robert Peel and Robert Brown are all the hope of Tamworth Town. At
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Harrow, Peel, aged thirteen to sixteen, was described by Byron as at
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the top of his class, a boy for whom all held high hopes.
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The poet recalled that as a scholar he Peel was greatly my superior. As
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a declaim o an actor, I was reckoned at least his equal. In
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school. He always knew his lesson, and I rarely, But when I
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knew it, I knew it nearly as well in general information, history,
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et cetera. I think I was his superior as well as the superior most
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boys are my standing. Another classmate, led a president of Columbia College,
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reported that what cost others hours of study, Peel send to a cry without
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an effort, and that when once acquired, it was appropriated forever. Peel
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soon asserted and always maintained his superiority as a scholar. The same classmates stated
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classics were almost the only study of that day. Peel mastered their languages,
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their literature, and their poetry and so thoroughly familiar was he with them,
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that it has happened to the writer more than once about a half holiday,
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when each boy of the upper forms was required to produce a copy of Latin
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or Greek verses to see Peel surrounded. Why the school bill was yet ringing
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with boys when lifted their exercises, calling upon him to supply them, which
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he did, writing now Latin, now Greek, with as much facility as
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though it were his mother tongue, and upon everyday topics. Four friends and
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associates. When Peel was at Harrow there were four boys in attendants who later
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became prime ministers, as noted above by Ron and King afterward President of Columbia,
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were also schoolboys with Peel c. Two three five reading no specific record
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C. Two three six, Production achievement c. Two three seven. Evidences
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of precocity. The attendives of Peel's memory was most remarkable. Before he was
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nine, he would, by his father's direction, repeat on Sunday evenings both
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the morning and afternoon sermons which he had never preached. For four years before
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he was ten, he gave displays in which he repeated many lines from Goldsmith,
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Pope and other poets. He was, however, never called upon to
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make an extemporo speech. One of his teachers, being asked by the import
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change it father whether he might hope to see his son William a second William
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Pett, he is said to have answered, I hope so, but Robert
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will be Robert Peel, Robert's Harrow tutor, is reported to have said to
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his pupils, I shall not live to see it, but you boys will
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one day see Peele Prime Minister. Aio Q watch in fifty five relived coach
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to data POINTSIG zero three development from seventeen to twenty six. Robert Peele entered
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christ Church to the age of seventeen, or remained there three years. He
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was a steady worker at both classics and mathematics, and fond of manly exercises.
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He made a number of affectionate friendships with men chosen for their social rather
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than their intellectual attainments. When Peele took his degree at the age of twenty,
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he obtained first class honors of both classics and mathematics, the first occasion
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which defeat had been achieved. Among his competitors were men who were to become
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respectively Vice Chancellor of the University, Archbishop of Durham and Professor of Divinity.
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After a tour of Scotland on fort a horseback, young Peer went to London,
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and when he attained his majority, his father bought him a seat in
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Ireland and he entered Parliament. He remained silent through his first session, but
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seconded the address in his second with a speech that was regarded as a distinct
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success. It was not until at the age of twenty three, he delivered
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his panegyric on Willington that Peel's political style began to rise. As a reward
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for his achievement, he was appointed Under Secretary for the Colonies, but he
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led a Chief Secretary for Ireland. He held this post six years, having
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established a reputation in Parliament. Even then he was spoken of among his friends
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as the future Prime Minister. AIQ one hundred and seventy relived Kosh of Debt
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up one seventy five, Madame d Stale Holstein and the Louise Germain Necker seventeen
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sixty six to eighteen seventeen, a celebrated French writer. AIQ one hundred and
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fifty five, AIQ hundred and sixty one family standing. Jermaine Necker's father,
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Jacques Necker, page two hundred and sixty eight, a Swiss citizen of Prussian
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ascent, was successfully head of the greatest banking house of his time, Minister
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from Geneva to the French Court, director with the French Treasury, and Minister
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of Finance to Louis the sixteenth. He was a man of incredible penetration and
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of the highest integrity, who hated all the fectations. Madame Necker, the
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daughter of a Swiss pastor, was a beautiful and exemplary blue stocking of remarkable
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gifts. Their story in Gibbon, had wished to marry her, but gave
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up his wish at his father's demand. Two develop at twenty seventeen one interests.
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The only recorded childish occupation of Jermaine Necker was fashioning kings and queens from
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paper and having them played tragedies. As this pleasure was forbidden to her,
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she had to hide in order to indulge in it. It is said that
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she and her companion did not play together at all like children. Their pastimes
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were those of mature Jermaine was accustomed to attending the theater and on her return
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to write the subject of the plays and the most striking things about them.
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Her pleasures, as well as her duties, were intellectual. The thing which
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entertained her was the thing which made her cry. Two. Education. Her
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father, by his caresses, encouraged his daughter to talk continually. Her mother
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was more severe, but it was she who undertook the education of her daughter,
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applied her with books and tasks, and introduced her, even in childhood,
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to a circle of brilliant and accomplished men. Jermaine studied deep subjects and
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listened to much conversation far beyond her age. Thus her mind and her emotions
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were equally but prematurely divloped. Three. School standing in progress. After a
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period of informal education of a most stimulating character, which has continued till she
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was fourteen, Jermaine Necker suffered a nervous decline which required her to give up
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studies and other activities completely for a time. Her mother was greatly vexed at
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this obstacle in the way of producing the perfect product she had contemplated, as
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she ceased from this time to take any interest in her daughter's talents, which
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she now considered slight and artificial. The girl clung the more to her father,
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who appreciated her wit and vipacity, and she continued by these qualities to
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attract society of the cleverest men in her parents salon four friends and associates.
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Jermia was the friend of her parents friends. As early as her twelfth year,
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she would sit on a foot store beside her mother and converse with three
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or four persons who dressed her with the greatest interest. Among these were Thomas
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Maramontelle, the Marquis of Pesse, and Baron Grimm. Jermaine was an animated
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and discriminating the Stener entirely at ease, even on political topics. Her friends
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asking her questions about her studies stimulated in her desire for study by talk of
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things familiar and foreign. She said later that the sight of famous persons made
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her heart beat violently. Five reading. Her reading, which was not selected
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by her more more severe than watchful mother, made a deep impression upon her.
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The abduction of Clarisse was one of the events of her youth. When
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Jermaine was sixteen, she was presented on one occasion when Madame de Genlis read
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one of her juvenile plays aloud to Madame Neco, the young Swiss, showed
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that she was stirred emotionally to the very depths, a demonstration which the author
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of the play condemned has a resulted too much stimulating society. Six production and
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achievement. At sixteen, when she was banished for a time to country life
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on account of ill health, Germaine and her companion clad as an inmsol Nurse's
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declaimed verses, composed poems, and even composed and presented dramas. At fifteen,
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when Nervous Complete Rendeaux was published, his daughter wrote him an anonymous letter,
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which, however, he recognized by the style. The same year she
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made notes on less Spirit de Loy with reflections of her own, and the
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Abbe Reynald asked her to write for his great work some paragraphs on the revocation
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of the addictive Nats seven. Evidence of the precocity. In early childhood,
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Germaine won her father's applause by her sallies. This stimulated her to new retorts,
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and she responded to her father's continued raillery with that mixture of gayety and
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emotion which always characterized her conversations with him. She was always anxious to please
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her parents, and at the age of ten, on account of the great
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admiration which they had for mister Gibbon, she considered her duty to marry him
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so they could continue to enjoy the companionship which gave them so much pleasure.
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This plan she advanced seriously to her mother. It is said truly that Madame
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Diustale was always young, but never a child. At eleven she spoke with
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a warmth and a facility which were already eloquent, and which made a deep
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impression on her companions, and she was even at that time able to maintain
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a brilliant and witty conversation with the cleverest of men. At sixteen, she
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was animated, walked a great deal too much, toring to Madame de Gendis,
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her mother's friend, though always with wit and discernment. A i i
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Q. One hundred and fifty five relived coach of data point six zero three
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development from seventeen to twenty six. In spite of an absence of physical beauty,
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with the exception of fine eyes and hair, Madame Necho early considered love
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and held dissertations with the wits on the passion and nineteen the desire of her
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life was so loved and to be loved. In this year she wrote three
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short tales, mersa Adelaide at Theodore and Pauline, which however, were not
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published until ten years later. At the age of twenty Germaine Noko married Baron
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de stan Houstein, the Swedish ambassador. She sought neither a lover nor a
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friend in her husband. She treated marriage as a convenience in order to obtain
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that liberty, beniged her as a young woman. In the year of her
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marriage, she published Sophie, a prose comedy in three acts, and the
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following year Jane Gray, a political tragedy in five acts. A contemporary observer
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remarked at this time on the brilliancy of her style and vivacity of her conversation,
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which obliterated her defects of beauty and held her audience enthralled. Rosseaul had
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been one of Madame de Stau's first titles, and offer a book on his
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writings and character. Written at the edge of twenty two. Lamartine said,
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the first pages revealed more than a grand style, a grand soul in this
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young woman. Roseus judged there as he should be judged with pity and enthusiasms.
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When Madame Desteux was twenty three, her father was dismissed from public office,
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but by popular will, his absence from the country was of short duration.
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The distinguished daughter records the dremful return of the family to Paris, but
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favor was short lived. In a year, Neco had lost the confidence of
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the people, had resigned his post and returned to Switzerland. His daughter,
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however, remained in Paris if a four years. Hesslon was a rendezvous of
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royalists and Girondins. During the worst of the terror, She used her home
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to shield her friends as she successfully defiled the authority of the police to search
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the Swedish embassy. During these years, as later, the most distinguished foreigners
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and the best men in France flocked around her. AIQ one hundred and sixty
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re live coached up point six to zero. Alfred Tennyson eight o nine to
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eighteen ninety two, a celebrated English poet ai Q one hundred and fifty five
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AIQ one hundred sixty one. Family standing, the Tennisons were solicitors and clergymen.
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Tennison's father, a liberal minded rector, was a skillful poet with wide
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and variet artistic interests. The mother, his father was also a clergyman,
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was a remarkable woman of culture and education. Her family was one of old
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standing in the country, two development who had seventeen one interests. In their
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earliest years, the Tennison children played at being emperors of China, knights,
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warriors, or champions. Later they became devoted to gymnastic exercises, but they
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did not associate with other boys or take part in this sports. Alfred and
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his brother were sufficient to themselves. The bohemian and esthetic taste of the Tennysons
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led Alfred to a variety of unusual interests. If he loved music and dancing,
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he also loved carving wood and molden clay, and he found subjects for
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his plastic art out of doors, in the birds and beasts, of whose
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activities he was a keen and devoted observer. But it was into literary pursuits
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that his tastes chiefly led him. While still at school, he delivered a
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political speech to his schoolmates, and later in private at home, theatricals his
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performers suggested real dynamic talent. He was always fond of reading and verse writing,
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and his were always the most thrilling of tales in the latter form,
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which the household wrote and read aloud after dinner. Two Education. From the
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age of seven to eleven, Tennyson attended a miserable Old style grammar school,
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which he hated and from which he derived no benefit. He studied the elements
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of Latin and read ovid Delectus and Elector Grecia Menorca, and the Old Eton
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grammar. From Alfred's twelfth year onwards, he and his brother were taught at
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home by a father, who followed a course of study including languages, the
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fine arts, mathematics, and natural science. Alfred was at this time so
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overdosed with horace that he was neither then nor latter even able to learn to
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appreciate this writer. Three schools standing in progress during his school attendants from the
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age of seven to eleven, Alfred was recognized by other members of his family
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as possessing ability, but he did not stand high in his class. An
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old tudor, however, said letter that he had learnt rapidly and was easily
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instructed. Four friends and associates, the Tennisons, were exclusive. Alfred's intimate
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friends until they was sixteen, were all members of his own family. The
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neighbors were, in fact want to look a little askance at the unconventional Tennisons
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and Alfred, with his often wild were absorbed air they called deft five reading.
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It is said that Alfred e eit knew no other poet than Thompson.
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At ten or eleventh of Scobu's reading had extended, and now Pope's Ciliad had
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become a favorite. His first book of verse published Bernet's author was seventeen.
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Shows Tennyson's multifarious learning. He reflects the works of a large number of Latin
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authors Xenophon and Apollonius, Rudius, Racine and Mouseul, Spanish authors, the
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English classical and letter writers Spencer Shakespeare, Milton Young, Mason, B.
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G. Cowper, Ossian Scott Moore, byron As and Burke, Missus Radcliffe,
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the Germy Hayne Gibbon, and the great Oriental scholar Sir William Jones.
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Other favorite writers of Tennyson's youth were Goldsmith, Rabelais, Swift, Defoe,
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Bunyan, and Buffon. Six Production and Achievement one occasion. While other members
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of the family were at church, Alfred h Date covered both sides vise slate
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with tomsony and blank verse in Praise of Flowers. Three or four years later
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later, he and his brothers wrote hundreds of lines in Pope's Meadow, a
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letter from Tennyson's thirteenth year in the Work of a Young Pendet, while another
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of the same period is grandiloquent and fastidious. The poets said he felt truly
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inspired in the writing, at the age of twelve, of an epic of
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six thousand lines, a la Walter Scott Full of Battles. At fourteen,
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he composed two dramas and black verse, in one of which appear the following
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striking lines, you would look down and knit your baby brows into your favorite
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frown. In both plays, the language and manner of the young poet's favorite
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models are conspicuous rhyming verses. The following years show mastery of meto and true
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sense of rhythm. In the two years before he was seventeen, Alfred wrote
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forty two poems, which were published in their author's eighteenth year. In the
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Poems by two Brothers, contemporary notices expressed a favorable opinion of the volume.
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Has stated that it contained exquisite pieces of verse. A publisher paid twenty pounds
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for its copyright. Lang and sob ford Brook have more recently declared that these
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verses have little merit. But Lawdsbury and Van Dyke find among them so for
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which are not only unusual productions for authors so young, but also productions good
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in themselves glorified no mataclosurer which Milton need not have blushed to acknowledge. The
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quality of Alfred's verse was already far superior to that of his elder brother,
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Charles. The younger, more gifted Polt exhibited clever and intricate varieties of verse
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and peculiarities of diction that the elder never reached seven evidences of precocity before he
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was old enough to read. Little Alfred, on a stormy day, spread
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his arms to the sky and cried a bare of voice that speaking in the
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wind. It is stated that on reading some of his son's earliest poems,
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the father was steeply moved, and a little later, when his son lay
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ill, he said, if Alfred Die, one of our greatest poets,
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will have gone a I i Q One fifty five releaved koschendet appoint it two
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three development from seventeen to twenty six. Alpha remained at home until at eighteen
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he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he found the arid atmosphere of the
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university then predominatingly mathematical, monotonous and uninspiring. Nevertheless, he won at twenty
51:15
the chance was called Medal for a poem on timbuctool. He has been the
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first prize poem submitted in blank verse. About a year later, the volume
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Poem's chiefly Lyricals was published and received favorable reviews from Sir John bewring LEI Hunt
51:30
and Arthur Hellmann. S. D. Kolerid saw in these poems, in
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spite of a clearly imperfect understanding of a meadow, something of a good deal
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of beauty. During the summer vacation, Alfred and his college friend Halam made
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a foot journey through France to the Pyrenees with money and letters for the revolutionists.
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Again the university, Tennyson studied classics, history and natural science, and
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took a keen interest in politics. It took physical exercises in rowing, fencing,
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and walking home whither he returned at twenty one and a half upon the
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death of his father. He soon became noted for powess in feats of physical
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strength. He was called Hercules as well as Apollo. At twenty two,
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Tennyson published four poems and literary journals, and the autumn of the following year
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his collected poems appeared. This folme includes The Loduceeders and The Dream of Fair
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Women. At twenty four he printed The Lover's Tale, written five years earlier.
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In the autumn of the same year, his beloved friend harm died,
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and in sorrow Tennyson began the two Voices in Mouranium and the first draft of
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Morte Diarthur. In the two years following Halmer's death, Tennyson's health and spirits
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were indifferent. He sought solace in the works of Racine Whilier and Victor Hugo.
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At twenty five of his busy copying Morte Diarthur. Hardy Colthridge stated about
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this time that Tennyson was udoubtedly a man of genius, but Wordsworth confessed that,
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for his part, he wanted the faculty to enter into the beauty of
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the young poet's style. A I I I Q one hundred and sixty will
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have coached dead upon it. Two Ludwig Ti seventeen seventy three to eighteen fifty
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three, a German poet and critic a i i Q one hundred fifty five
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a i i i Q one hundred fifty five one firmly standing. Ludwick Tik's
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father, a master ropemaker of Berlin, was an intelligent, upright workman,
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a loyal subject of Old Fritz, and a believer in rationalism and enlightenment.
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He was fond of reading, especially the works of Gertha and of the theater,
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and had definite ideas about the education of his children. The gentle,
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kindly mother adhered to the ancient religious faith. She loved her children to votally
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and guarded them from the apparent severity of their father. Two Development twents seventeen
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one interests. When he was very young, Ludwig was fascinated by the sight
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of his mother's ornamental hymnow, as well as by the sound of his arms
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and the hymns she read from it. As a little child, he developed
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a delight in the theater and began to think of having a little playhouse of
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his own. Led soldiers were the actors in his first plays. These were
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succeeded by paper puppets, and finally Ludwig and his brother and sister acted the
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parts of the little plays that the young poet composed. At eleven and twelve,
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young Tigg attended the theater frequently alone. He saw greatly enjoyed plays of
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Lessing, Gotha Sheer and Shakespeare. Latter during his teens, his artistic interests
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had a further opportunity to expand when he became a participant in private theatricals and
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musical programs at the home of the composer and opera director Rockart two education,
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Tig's first instruction was received at his mother's knee. At five, he entered
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an A. B C. School, and so eager was his interest that
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he daily anticipated the hour of opening. Before his tenth year, he was
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sent to the French school for boys kept by a local tailor, and here
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he learned French in addition to the regular school subjects. The youth in nineteen
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nineteen is spent at the well known Frederic Werd Gymnasium, a Berlin school of
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ice standing three schools, standing and progress. The boy's mother taught him his
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ab' z's at his own earnest request, and her instruction was aided by the
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boy's imagination, which now the letters with merry living qualities. As a result
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of early interest in training, Ludwig could read when he was scarcely four.
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Later, at the gymnasium, his ability won him recognition among teachers and pupils
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alike. A special gift, a peculiarly photographic memory, so impressed one master
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that he led the youth to the center of the room and then called upon
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the other children to rise and bow to him three times in recognition of his
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unusual talent. During the gymnasium years, Ludwick received instruction outside the regular curriculum
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in Greek, French, Italian music and dancing. Four friends and associates at
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one time. During his boyhood, the lad was strengthly devoted to a cold,
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reserved, ambitious fellow who spurned his naive affection and constantly gave him cause
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for grief. That of the young poet's loving heart found a sympathetic friend in
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the romantic Werkinroder, a carefully educated, talented, dreamy boy, and the
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two remained close friends and a collaborator's until Werkinroder's death at the age of twenty
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five. Other school associates were told son of a porcelain manufacturer, refinance to
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his fellow, Vond of sport, good natured von Bergsdorff, the son of
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a nobleman and verying son of a country clergyman, a merry and original spirit.
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Five reading. Soon after love Wik was four years old, the Bible
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took the place of the primer in his education, as historical and political books
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became his favorite reading. Even in his earliest childhood, the little fellow had
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read the Bible through more than once. A little later he was introduced to
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German the Return through the books his father read aloud in the evenings. These
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were usually poetic, but occasionally then included such works as Fontenelle's Multiplicity of Worlds,
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Gertha's God's Von Berlishinden was an early favorite. The words, thus opened
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to the boy through books became a real one and its people living beings.
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During the Gymnasium years, the Odyssey and Polictes Furling were among the books that
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fascinated him. Ludwig read all the volumes in his father's library and the lone
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library, and he boored whatever books he could read from his comrades he considered
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great enthusiasm for Shakespeare and discovered the treasures of Sir Frantz and Oldberg. Also
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six production achievement upon written when Tek was eleven in honor of the marriage to
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the school director, caused the other boys to marvel at his talent. But
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not until he was about fifteen and the second class at the gymnasium that his
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compositions began to be noteworthy. After that time, his father had often helped
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him with the hateful formal exercises, Bale began to write independently, to express
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himself freely in writing, and to write composition for the other boys as well.
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He was praised by his teachers for the literary ability displayed in his productions,
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and as often scoffed at, even harshly recrimmanded for the original opinions he
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expressed. At sixty he wrote some dramatic scenes to accompany The Midsummer Night's Dream,
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in which he idealized the great English poet. Seven evidences of precocity.
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Little Ludwick was a sensitive and precocious child. My very early age pictures and
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experiences made so strong and even painful an impression upon him that he preserved the
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memory of them even in his advanced years. At a puppet play, the
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strange antics and attitudes of the puppets and the tragic tones terrified him so that
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he wept and his father had to carry him out when it was about four.
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Neighbors and relatives, seeing him on his little footstool eagerly reading in the
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Bible, would shake their heads doubtly over the unusual talent. Riven refused to
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believe that he was actually reading. See also two, one, three and
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six a i Q One fifty five bit of kosherdeta points seventy five three Development
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from seventeen to twenty six. Before completing the gymnasium course at nineteen, Tiyrc
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had already produced a literary work of genuine merit. At seventeen he went through
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a distressing period of depression, but improved after he had made, at the
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age of eighteen the acquaintance of Mary Alberti, to whom he was a little
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later engaged. From nineteen twenty one he attended the University of Haile, Gottingen
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and Erlangen, studying history and literature, especially Shakespeare and the Lizabethian drama.
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During these years he produced work that was later published. By edge of twenty
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one, he had definitely decided upon a literary career, and before he was
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twenty six had published a considerable amount of literary work, including short stories,
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novels, and plays a IQ one fifty five bred of koscherdeta Points seventy five.
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Frederick August Wolff seventeen fifty nine to eighteen twenty four Eman, a classical
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scholar regarded as the founder of scientific classical philology AIQ one hundred and fifty five
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AIIIQ one hundred and sixty five. One. Family standing. Wolfe's parents were
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honest, simple, careful, happy people. His father was a schoolmaster and
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organist who gave written expression to his wisdom and proverbs. Frau Wolf, the
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daughter of the town clerk of a nearby village, was a wise and an
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unselfish mother. Her famous son always felt that he owed his intellectual interests to
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her. Two Development twenty seventeen one interests. When a little child, Wolfe
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said that if he grew up, he would be a superdint superintendent, the
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highest church official he knew, and to him the summer autunity. Wolf's father
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planned to train him to be a musician, But although the boy found in
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music at genuine recreation, he soon discovered that it could never satisfy him as
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a permanent employment. He could play the flute and harp, although the clavier
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was his favorite instrument. He even composed new heirs. Participation in athletic sports
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was not allowed by his parents, and so recreation usually met little walks or
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trips into the country. Will for no inclination for anything mathematical. As early
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as he aged ten, he decided on a scholar's career and devote himself thereafter
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to this one purpose forgetting all else two education on his mother's lap, the
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little boy learned many songs, fables, and proverbs, and he learned a
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simple practical philosophy, for his mother taught him to insist on deeds as evidence
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of the genuineness of the attitudes. His first former instruction was given by his
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father, who had a gift for teaching. Knew Latin and some group had
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admired ancient history and literature when barely too. Frederick was taught to enunciate clearly
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and as a game. He learned sentences and verbs, first in German,
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then in Latin. At three, he began to write to study music.
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Before he was five, his father had instructed him in reading aloud, thinking
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about writing avoidance for ambiguity and mental computation. At six, he had made
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some progress in Latin, and he near little French and Greek. He was
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thence sent to the gymnasium. The rector, a learned man but unsuccessful as
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a teacher of small boys, was successful four years later by a vigorous Abel
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scholar, j U C. Haik, who had a deep interest in the
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study of the classics. This energetic teacher encouraged Wolfe to come to him out
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of school hours to discuss his work. Haike developed in his pupil a profound
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belief in the value of self training, and after the death of the teacher
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a little later, wolf than ten years of age, attended school less,
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frequently met his own plan of study, and carried it out at home,
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working often far into the night. A year of needed recreation followed this severe
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discipline. The boy deliberately gave up study, played bore, and ran about
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the streets. Then he returned to his books. The Nude Zeal and Brute
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Health. Ferick's father's friend, Frankenstein, taught the boy first French and Italian,
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then Spanish, and the little he knew of English from Schruto, a
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learned scholar in the theory of music, author sixteen, learnt counterpoint, played
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unspeakably by difficult calculations, and eagerly lapped up all his teacher could tell him
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of Greek music. At sixteen, he began to study Hebrew three schools.
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Standing on progress. In the entrance examination to the gymnasium, the boy of
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six read Greek, some Cicero, and easy modern Latin verse. Skipping the
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four lower classes. He was entered to third class, where he read the
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less difficult Greek authors and the New Testament. With his father's help, he
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made rabbit progress and soon was the best student in his class. At it
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he was promoted to the second class and attended the first. At fourteen,
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he had become a member of the rector's own class. But his teacher was
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a man of little mind mind who disgusted the studious boy by refusing to keep
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his authority for a statement doubted by his pupil. Wolford the class out of
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the next public examination. He exposed the hypocrisy of the rector by presenting to
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the audience copies of questions and answers prepared by the teacher so that his students
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might make an apparent success. At seventeen, Wolfe was ready for the university.
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A primate class is Gymnazie bare sexonium sidis four friends and associates. Wolf
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fled to inspiring teachers who instructed him out of score hours. Frankenstein was to
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him in modern languages and literature what Hake had been in the ancient The former,
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whose association with his young discipline was so unfortunately cut short by an early
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death, was more interested than any of his other instructors in the general development
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of all the boy's talents. At fifteen, the lad fell in love with
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a young widow who shared some of his intellectual interests. Neither his family or
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heirs discouraged the affair, and when the lady died, Wolfe at sixteen,
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was dense consulate until he returned to his exhaustive, absorbid study opera. Berdiger
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Ostermann and Pastre Lesvoort, two excellent men, were attracted to the sixteen year
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old wolf by his skill in reading Latin and Greek. They criticized his work
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and introduced him to their classical libraries of some thousand volumes. Five reading a
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twelve, Wolf read Voltaire and Moliere in French, preferring the former Italian he
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liked better than French. In it, he read the story of Bianca Cappello,
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and also Tata's works. In Spanish, read Don Quixote, which he
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had previously read in German. In Hebrew, he read most of the Pentitore
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and other parts of the Old Testament. At fourteen, Homer had long been
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his daily repast Levy he had read only casually. Six production achievement. When
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he was no more than five, Wolf could recall ten to fifteen lines of
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verse after a single reading A twelve. He learned hold cantors a Tasso,
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and he wrote Italian verses so well that his teacher thought them taken from Italian
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writers. In learning English at twelve, he required the use of a dictionary
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which was available for one month only, so he learned two thirds of it
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by heart and copy the other third. He was said to have learned the
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whole Greek dictionary by height. He could recite many rhapsodies of Homer and whole
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tragedies even before he got their complete meaning. With this remarkable memory he combined
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to iron persistence. He kept himself away late into the night by artificial means,
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a wreck of which strangely enough, did not ruin his health. At
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sixteen, when engaged to arrange a classical library, he examined each book memorizer's
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title, ortho edition, place of publication, and made mental note of the
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character of the volume. Having obtained success to all the sizable libraries in the
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town, he early came an authority on excellent classical works. At fourteen,
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he began taking private pupils, and at sixteen had developed an excellent teaching method.
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At this time he began a comparative study of antion in modern languages,
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and commenced to make his own comparative grammar servon evidence is of procrosody. Wulf
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remembered the French soldiers who talked in French and broken German at his father's house
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when he was two and a half. At four, he recited at the
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conclusion of the service in the village church at Thanksgiving pomer composed by his father,
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and five he frequently read to the congregational sermons which his father had prepared
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for the purpose. Wolf said later that even in his thirteenth year, he
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was pretty well finished and developed. See also two two and six a i
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Q. One hundred and fifty five relative koschadt Upunt seventy five three developed from
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seventeen to twenty six. From the age of eighteen to twenty Wolf attended the
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University of Guthagen, who registerooed as a student of a lology. Although the
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Great Hienn tried to dissuade him from this course and called his plan of study
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absurd, Wulfe was not to be turned aside. He knew exactly what he
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wanted. He attended the opening lectures in many causes but the Orientation and the
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Bobliography, and then spent the rest of the semester of reading and studying,
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sometimes remaining in his room for months at a time. He read homer,
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Ossian and the Old Testament, and attended lectures in natural science and psychology.
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He had few acquaintances, and he took no part in student activities. To
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save time. In dressing, he wore a wig and a simple cloak.
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Because of his remarkable zeal, he was allowed of the unusual privilege of using
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the library during close periods. His lectures of Xenophon and Demol's themes to a
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group of Philips students created considerable interest. Upon Oyenn's suggestion, Ulf was appointed
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collaborator to Elfeld, and there, aged twenty twenty three, he carried on
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for three years the activities of a skillful teacher. At twenty one he had
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Lillo's fatal Curiosity and two years later Plato's Symposium with an its and in deduction
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to increase his income and thus be able to marry, Wolf left Illfeld and
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became a teacher at Oosterode, where in one year he reformed the entire system,
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introduced true humanistic study, and leaving for his successor an excellent method,
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a carefully worked our school program, and an enthusiastic student body. At the
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close of the school year, Wulf, now twenty four, accepted, from
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several offers that of a professorship of philology and pedagagogy at the University of Hale.
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He spent the next twenty three years at Hale, inspiring his students with
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his own ardor in the study of antiquity a i i Q hundred sixty five
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ReLit of Koschetete point seventy five, end of section thirty one