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XIX. CASES RATED AT AI IQ 150 to 160. Part 2 · Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses

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Section thirty of Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume two, The Early Mental Traits
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of three hundred Geniuses by Katharine Cox. This is the Brivox according all the
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Brivox accordings of the public domain. For more information or volunteer, please visit
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the Rivox dot org recorded by Leonhardt, Chapter nineteen cases rated at ai i
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Q one T fifty two hundred sixty, Part two. Victor Hugo h O
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two eighteen fifty five a celebrated French poet, the recognized leader of the Romantic
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school in the nineteenth century in France ai Q one hundred fifty a i Q
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one hundred seventy one. Family standing, the Hugos were worthy and respectable people,
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belowing into the Otesian class. The grandfather was a carpentour whose son,
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Vitri's father rose during their Poleonic Wars to the rank of lieutenant general and first
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aide de camp of Joseph Bondaparte, King of Spain. The older Hugo was
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the author of some important military works. The mother, who was the daughter
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of a shipowner, was an intelligent, brave and gentlewoman and a model mother.
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Two developmenttw age seventeen one interests. Between his seventh and his tenth year,
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Victor Hugo lived in Paris, where he spent much of his time out
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of doors, playing in a beautiful garden which he loved, at which he
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and his brother peopled with imaginary characters. At the age of seven, he
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ran away from school to see Napoleon pass and was deeply impressed by the silent
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God of Brass. At nine, he experienced his first love affair, but
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not with the future Madame Hugo, who was, however, at that time,
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one of his playmates. Young Hugo liked both boyish musements, but he
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enjoyed them, particularly when he was able, by force or good will,
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to take the lead. At the boarding school, he and his brother were
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recognized as the commanders or kings of two opposing factions. At Victor was considered
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terrible despot. During the last Napoleonic Wars, he became absorbed in geograph,
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which he learned thoroughly by his studying an elaborate collection of military maps. Though
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studious, he was no bookworm, But from his tenth year his most intense
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interest was in literature, stimulated no doubt by his first visit to the theater,
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an experience he never forgot. Before he was thirteen, he had a
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marrionnette Theodore, in which he performed plays of his own composition. At thirteen,
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poetry began to assume first place in his thoughts. At the next three
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years he made verses of every variety. His play hours were devoted to dramatic
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pursuits, ace evenings to the translation of the Odes of Horace and fragments of
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Virgil into French verse. The boy, who had taught himself the principles of
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French prosodi, knew also by instinct what was good or bad its literature,
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and he aimed high, chatebred or nothing was his motto true education. But
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when his fourth and his sixth year, the tiny, frail little fellow who
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often cried without any wondering why, attended his first school at the age of
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sixty year, in elementary class taught by the next priest. From nine to
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eleven, while the family was in Spain with the court of King Joseph,
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Vitter attended the College of Nobles and participated there in the constant feud between the
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French and the Spanish. Youth. Madame Hugo was anxious to secure for her
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children the best education possible, and so of their return to Paris, Victor
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Hugo, aged eleven, and his brothers were instructed by their former tutor.
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The Yugo boys spent one hundred days in a boarding school, and while they
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attended, in addition to their regular courses, letters on physics, philosophy and
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mathematics at the College Louis la Grande. At the age of sixteen, Victim
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became convinced that a life of letters, not one of arms, held the
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greatest interest for him, and so he withdrew from school without taking the entrance
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examination to the military college three schools standing in progress. During a sojourn in
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Italy, his father wrote of Victor, aged five, he is a great
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aptitude for study. He is daddy as his eldest brother, and of a
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very reflective turn. He speaks little, and never except to the point.
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Before he was six, the boy had taught himself to read by merely looking
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at the printed letters, and he picked up writing arithmetic almost as quickly.
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Where he was not yet fourteen. His talent for mathematics brought him under the
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notice of the master, and at the great examination, both he and his
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brother obtained honorable mention. Hugo's method of solving mathematical problems was romantic, for
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he invented the solution rather than deduced it. At sixteen, he won some
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distinction in physics, but philosophy did not interest him, and how he could
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only concentrate on mathematics by fits and starts. Four Friends and associates. Hugo's
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brothers, his classmates, and his teachers were his early associates. His mother's
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influence upon his development and the development of his talent was strong and persistent.
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Five Reading. According to the liberal plan of Madame Hugo, her son was
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allowed from his tenth year to read anything and everything, and even at this
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tender age, he was often sent to library to select reading matter for her.
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Madame Hugo subscribed to a reading room for his son in age eleven,
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and there he read whatever came in his way, romances, books of science,
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and even Les Contemarines of Retif de la breton Is recorded that at sixteen
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he read furitively during a lecture Hourle Genie du Christian Sinim six production achievement as
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evidence of Hugo's early literary skill and interest. Translations of fables from French into
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Latin, made by the young author of the age of ten eleven and preserved
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in the original form, adorned with the youthful poet's reflections and ornamented with appropriate
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drawings. At the age of thirteen, Hugo wrote his first verses about Roland
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and the Age of Chivalry, in which, not having learned his prosidy,
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he invented his laws of rhythm for himself. A little later he turned to
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the composition of historical dramas and wrote plays modeled after Moliere. These were present
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in elaborate costumes by the Hugo brothers and their friends, Vitor himself assuming the
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principal roles see also two one. During a period of enforced leisure in which
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followed an accident, Vitter devoted himself to the composition of oods, satires,
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epistles and poems in many styles, and during his fourteenth and fifteenth years he
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filled ten exercise books full of verse forty six pieces in all. Someone showed
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any one merit. At fourteen, wrote an imaginative poem Le Deluge and a
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tragedy Atamine in the approved classic style. A second drama, Athali, was
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sketched out during the same year but not completed, and this was followed by
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an opera, comic and some short verses at fifteen for a palm of three
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hundred thirty five lines on the assigned theme the habitats which may be derived from
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study in any situation of life, he received ninth place in the prize composition
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of the French Academy, a remarkable achievement for a boy. As a consequence,
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became a privileged person at score and was invited to dinner by Nufeschateaux,
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a writer and statesman of importance. Between the ages of thirteen and seventeen,
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he had written odes, satires, epistles, poems, tragedies, elegies and
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ideals, imitations of Asane, translations of Virgil, Horace, Lucien, Ansunius
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and martial romances, fable stories, epigrams, matreals, meddles, acrostics,
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charades, enigbers and improptus. As sixteen wrote in a fortnight his first romance,
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bug Jercal seven evidences of precocity see two, one, three, five,
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six three development from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen, Hugo's Love
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for the Future Madame Hugo provided the spur if anyone needed for his poetic inspiration.
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Poetry and prose issued from his pen in a steady stream. In a
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competition. The young author received first prize from poem excelling even a production which
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Lamertine had submitted. A volume of poems, appearing when the poet was twenty,
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met with the King's approval and brought Hugo a pension. Shortly after this,
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the young man married. Reviews and articles on painting and sculpture appeared,
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and were followed by a novel, which, although only a moderate success,
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nevertheless secured the author of further pension. A twenty two Hugo was made at
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Cheviert of the Legion of Honor. The next years were devoted to writing poems,
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Odes and ballads appeared, and to the poet's twenty sixth year was published
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the great dramatic poem Cromwell, a master base at all points except that of
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fitness for the modern stage ai i q. One hundred and seventy relived Coach
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of Dinnert point a two Phillips seats Robert de Lemonais seventeen eighty two to eighteen
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fifty four a French writer and philosopher ai i Q one in fifty ai Q
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one hundred and fifty five one. Family standing. The Robert family were hardy,
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adventurous sea ferris, determined to energetic, and apt to extreme views and
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opinions. The father was a well to do merchant and shipowner whose prosperity was
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however, destroyed by the Revolution. Although all Catholic, he was a man
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of kindly manner but of very strong convictions. He was enabled by Louis the
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sixteenth for important services to the government and for generosity to the poor in times
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of scarcity. The mother belonged to a family of high professional and civil standing.
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She was a woman of culture and wide reading true Develoma twite seventeen one
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interests. In his youth, Lemonaeus was passionately devoted to the coast and to
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the sea at ten of For some years thereafter. He was very religious,
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in a mystic and devotional rather than an intellectual and doctoral fashion. He loved
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to play the church service, to go through the ritual, and to pray
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for hours to the Virgin, thus earning from his companions the nickname of the
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little Bigot, but the Drychatism filled him with disgust, and he disputed so
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effectively with the priest who was to give him the first communion, and couotor
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Roussell so aptly that his communion was postponed until he should lose his heretical views.
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Midnight Mass during the years of the revolution made a deep impression upon him.
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At fourteen or fifteen, he began to feel an enemy, which he
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combated by enthusiastic participation in physical exercise, writing, fencing, swimming, et
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cetera, as well as by wide reading and the study of music two education.
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In his earlier years, Phelsiet refused to learn except to please his nurse.
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After his mother's death, which occurred to when the boy was five years
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old, he and his brother were adopted by an uncle and aunt, and
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thereafter for five years, the younger brother attended school. In addition, he
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was tretored by the abe career. At the age of ten, Felicide withdrew
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from school and was guided for a time by his older brother, but the
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latter had not sufficient authority and the uncle had to be called into discipline.
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The lively youngster Lemonius continued his studies under his uncle's direction. At the age
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of fourteen, he was taken by his father on a trip to Paris,
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a great event three schools stading in progress. Lemonaeus at five was unbelievably fractious.
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He was unwilling to learn lessons or to permit others to do so,
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and was impervious to vice. As school, he kept his playmates in a
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froment by his teasing his jokes in his games. At length, the school
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must conceive the idea of attaching a heavy weight to him by a string tied
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to his belt, and this device was used on newmous occasions to keep the
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restless youth in his place. At the age of eight, young Lemoneus won
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a prize, and the outwards said, this was the most beautiful day in
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my life. He was always extreme, either completely lazy or forenziically studious,
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charmingly tractable, or completely uncontrollable. At the age of twelve, he suddenly
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began to take a great interest in his studies as pro Chris became rapid.
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He always read pen in hand and noted passages that struck his fancy. As
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Sydney was able to read latter readily. He learnt Greek by himself with no
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other help than his books. He did not neglect English, Italian, Spanish
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or German. Four friends and associates. In his earliest childhood, A vague
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feeling of superiority held Lemonaeus aloof from other children. There is no mention of
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associates other than schoolmates, referred to incidentally as members of the family. Five
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reading. Lemonaeus was punished for mister Menos by being shut up in his uncle's
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library. Here he learned to read by devouring everything in the classics, theology
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of philosophy, Voltaire, Roussel, and revolutionary treatises. Through reading, he
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obtained the most valuable part of his education and satisfy his insatiable appetite for books.
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He would commit a misdeed in order to be shut up in the library.
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Before he was ten, flusiad had read Roussel, and at twelve Horace
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and Tacticus. During the following years he continued to read widely. What about
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sixteen years of age, he turned to philosophy, to such poets as an
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Acreon, Catalusts, Tasso, and Metastasio. Sik's production achievement a Latin exercise
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is preserved as evidence of Lemonae's ability in his eleventh year. At twelve he
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began to write compositions on such topics as a happiness of country life, and
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at fourteen his first publication appeared in some obscure sheet. At fourteen or fifteen
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he is admitted to the competitive examination of an academy, an essay combating the
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modern philosophy. He imitated thought and style the Romantic poets in both his verse
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and his prose. Some of his earliest verses, without having the ease or
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the grace or the model, show a real facility. But it is in
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his prose that he is at his best, reflecting the other fresh colors of
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the ancient poets. In learning a foreign language, Lemonades began by making an
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abridge grammar, by slender translation and exercises. He filled whole volumes with these
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exercises, and on every page unfound in genious thoughts which would not be out
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of place among those which he later published Seven Evidences of Ridiculousity. A delicate
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child, Lemoneus was distinguished in his infancy by the peculiar vivacity. At the
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age of eight, as he walked by the sea his master, he believed
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that he recognized the infinite. Seeing that others were not moved as he,
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he cried out, they behold what I bold, but they do not see
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what I see. Ai i q Watch fifty relived Custre det Upoint six zero
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three developed from seventeen to twenty six. Until Lemoners reached the age of twenty
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two, he remained at home. In spite of his pleasure and deep study
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of literature, especially classical literature, music, and an outdoor exercise, he
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was frequently oppressed by melancholy, and twenty two he experienced an intellectual conversion with
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a Catholic faith, and short the artwork, became professor of mathemat in Ecclesiastical
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College. His health failing, however, he yet to give up the post
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and return to the country, and that is to Paris. In the metropolis,
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he plunged altermately into active exercise and profound study, with the result that
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his vigor returned very slowly. A religious pamphlet published by him at twenty six
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was of sufficient consequence to be seized by Napoleon's police ai Q one Jun.
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Fifty five Relive kocheltet at point six to zero. Henry Wordsworth Longfellow h seven
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to eighteen eighty two American poet and man of letters ai Q. One hundred
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and fifty a ii Q. One hundred and sixty one. Family standing.
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Henry's father, Stephen Longfellow, a descendant of four may Flower Pilgrims, was
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a man much honored in the community for his ability in his profession of the
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law, for his sound good sense in affairs, and his high integrity is
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the reality and public spirit. The mother's father was General Pellick Wadsworth, a
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graduate of Harvard who taught school at Plymouth, rose to a major general's command
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in the Revolution, and served for fourteen years in the National Congress. The
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mother herself had many interests, religious, social, intellectual, and artistic.
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She was a kind friend and neighbor, and the confident of her children,
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two develop atwage seventeen one interests. When Harry was only eight months old,
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his mother wrote, he is an active rogue, and he wishes for nothing
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so much as singing and dancing. Just before the outbreak of the war in
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eighteen twelve, when the boy was five years old, his aunt wrote,
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our little Henry is ready to march. He had his ten gun prepared and
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his head powdered a week ago. In his early boyhood, although he disliked
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loud noises and rude excitements, he was fond of all boys games and was
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too tenderhearted for hunting, and was never a sportsman. He loved much better
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to be under a tree and read. At sixteen, politics were almost as
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uninteresting to him as so many columns of the tradesmen's advertisements. At the same
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age, during an important religious meeting, he had been so much of a
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heretic as to remain all day at home two education. In their early childhood,
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Henry and his brother were taught the Bible on Sunday afternoons by their mother.
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In his fourth and fifth years, Henry attended a private school where he
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learned his letters. At five, he attended public school for a week,
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but the companionship of rough boys there it proved distasteful, and so he was
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transferred to a private school. At six, he followed his teacher, mister
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Carto, to the Portland Academy. When he was fourteen, Henry, with
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his older brother, passed successfully the entrant's examination to Beldoin College, but did
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not take up residence there until the beginning of the sophomore year. Three schools
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standing in progress. While well Henry, aged six, was attending the Portland
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Academy, Is Citris sent this billet home to the little lad's parents. Master
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Henry Longfellow is one of the best boys we have in school. His spells
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and reads very well. He also can add a multiplying numbers. His conduct
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last quarter was very correct into my wall. At the age of seven,
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Little Henry is reported to have gone half through his Latin grammar. At this
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time he stood above several boys twice as old as he. When he was
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ten, the preceptor certified that he had during the week distinguished himself by his
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good deportment, Monday morning lesson and occasional levity. Accepted at college, the
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higher mathematics gave him some trouble, but his scholastic performance was superior, the
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excellence of his compositions being particularly noteworthy. Four friends and associates. In his
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early teens, Longfellow established a literary exchange and partnership with his friend William Brown,
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a bright youth a little older than himself. At college, Henry was
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described as somewhat fastidious in the choice of companions, though friendly toward all five
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reading. Before he was ten Henry read Grace Fables. He became quite indignant
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over the heir with many friends, but consoled himself by refusing to believe it
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true. At twelve, Irving's sketch Book fascinated his imagination. It was to
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him that the one book the period would satisfy his desires. At sixteen,
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he was reading Gray's Odes and daughter Johnson's criticisms, but this time he had
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also read Heckuelda's History and Medicine Customs of the Indian Natives of Pennsylvania and the
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neighboring states, and the same period he found Blocke on the human understanding neither
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remarkably hard nor uninteresting. Sikh's production achievement. When he was nearly seven,
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a young young fellow wrote his first letter, a clear but simple epistle to
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his father. His first print, Verses, appeared in the Portland Gazette when
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he was not quite fourteen. From time to time, other pieces which he
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lad described as not worth reprinting, appeared in the Gazette, and he continued
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to contribute to that paper until after he went to college at the age of
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fifteen. While at college, he also wrote some prose articles for the American
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monthly magazine. The editor commented the taste and talent displayed in the poor student
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and in youth and age. Seven evidences of precocity C. Two, one,
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three, five and six a I I k ona n fifty relative koshertete
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point seventy five three developed from seventeen or twenty six. Longfellows devoted to the
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study of literature continued and various verse and prose writings appeared from his pen.
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Upon graduating fourth in a class of thirty eight, he was offered a bowdoin
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professorship of modern languages, with the proposal that he spent three years in Europe
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fitting himself for the position. After spending a winter reading law in his father's
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office, Longfarrow carried out his plan during his professional service, and before his
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twenty five he published a number of text books for the study of modern languages.
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He married at twenty four a I I i Q hundred and sixty relative
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Kosch of eight A point seven five. Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn BARTHOLDI eighteen o
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nine to eighteen forty seven, a celebrated German composer, a musician a i
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Q one hundred and fifty a I I I Q one hundred fifty five one
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family sterning. Moses Mendelssohn, called the modern Plato, grandfather of Felix,
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was a profound philosophical thinker and one of the noblest representatives of true humanity.
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He had a fine taste for music and was collaborator with Nukulai in his library
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of the fine arts. Abraham Mendelssohn Felix's father, Although not equal to his
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father and his son in mental productivity and many fine traits of mind and character,
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he was a successful and wealthy merchant of Berlin. Although a due by
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birth, he had his children trained in the Protestant faith, a united to
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the Reformed Church. His judgment with regard to music was clear and sound,
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although he did not understand its technicalities. Felix's mother was a finely educated woman
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with great accomplishments in music, art, and languages French, Italian and Greek.
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She was in every way unusual and was noted for her brilliant mind a
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great personal charm. Two develop at age seventeen one interests. Aside from music,
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Felix had many other interests. He was devoted to gymnastics, took great
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pleasure in writing, swimming, and dancing, and played both billiards and chess
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with out door drawing was like a professional acvacation with him, as letter writing
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was remarkable for nickness and finish. Whatever he did he thought worth doing well.
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Two. Education. The education of the Medicsome children was planned with the
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greatest care by their father, who secured for them skilled teachers menified reputation even
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distinction. Felix's mother began giving her son music lessons of five minutes duration when
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it was no more than a tiny lad. At the age of seven,
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he began piano lessons with the distinguished musician Ludwig Berger, lessons in harmony with
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Gertha's friend Karl Zettler, and was taught the violin by the noted musician Carl
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Henning. At the same time, his general education began under Hayes, father
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of the poet, to whom he owed his thorough classical training and his well
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grounded scientific information. Felix and his sisters studied long under the direction of their
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teachers, beginning their work at five o'clock in the morning. At the age
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of ten, Felix entered the Singer Academy as an alto. At fifteen,
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he began to receive piano lessons from the distinguished musical Moschellers. Too his music
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and scientific work, the boy devoted much time and application to drawing. In
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seventeenth year he was ready to enter the University of Berlin, three schools standing
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in progress. The boy's proficiency in Latin Greek enabled him to prepare at fifteen
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in accurate translation of Terence's Andrea, but Gertha's use and this work later became
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a basis for the themes of two of his master's works, the music of
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Sophocles Antigone and Oedipus in Colonos. In drawing, Felix attained as an amateur
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a high degree of perfection c. Two six for progress in music four.
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For instance, associates Felix's eldest sister, Fanny, was quite equal to her
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brother in the command at piano. The two were in several companions, sharing
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each other's confidences, artistic games, and ambitions. When the boy was twelve,
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his teacher Selto took him to Weimar for a two weeks visit to Gertha,
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who was charmed with a young musician. Subsequent visits made a deeper and
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lasting impression on the younger lad Felix was a wanted child in the best sense
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of the world, beautiful and body and spirit, the very image of health
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and happiness, eager and merry, remarkably gifted, and he had always modest
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these qualities naturally attached to him acquaintances and associates when he distinguished, visitors came
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to his home, and he frequently meant eminent musicians at home and on trips
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with his father. Five reading no specific record, six production and achievement.
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At the age of nine, Felix played the piano in a trio at a
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concert and was much applauded. His eleventh and twelve years he wrote from fifty
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to sixty complete movements, including pieces for the piano, violin, an organ,
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songs, and a cantana. Two years later, allth of his labors
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were interrupted by a journey to Switzerland, and by great activity and other lines.
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He produced an extraordinary number of compositions, and by this time began the
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Sunday Matineese in the Medicine home, to which is small number of friends were
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invited. Here Felix's compositions were played, and the boy and his sister Fanny
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had an opportunity of hearing other people's judgment on their productions. So notable did
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the musical matinees become that soon all the musicians distinction coming to Berlin requested to
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be admitted to them. When Felix was fourteen, the English quarterly Musical Magazine
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and Review gave notice on his sympathy of his composition, saying its rich invention,
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unity of design, and a tender study of effect promised much for his
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future works. When he was fifteen, his opera was rehearsed for the first
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time with an orchestra, and his old teacher, Zelter, proclaimed him no
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longer an apprentice, but an independent member of the brotherhood of Musicians. It
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was at this time that Moscheles became his teacher, and the latter soon pronounced
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his pupil a phenomenon. Already a mature artist with untiring activity, Felis continued
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to produce symphony, his piano forte pieces, songs, operas, et cetera.
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Among his compositions he at at sixteen was he Octet for Strings OBUs twenty,
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a masterpiece, and Scherizzeau, being considered the revealer of an absolutely new
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creative faculty. Seven evidences of precocity. Even in his eighth year, Felix
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played the piano with extraordinary ability. He had a remarkably precossious power of musical
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production. See also two six ai I Q one fifty Viliit Koshington at point
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six to zero three development from seventeen to twenty six. At the age of
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fifteen, Meddelsohn maticulated at the University of Berlin, and in the next three
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years he attended lectures there, maund them Hegel's on Music and Riches on Geography,
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in which he took great interest. In addition to his regular work,
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he added continually to his list of musical compositions superintendent. At the age of
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eighteen the production of his opera The Wedding of Commancho and rehearsed a chorus of
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sixteen voices in Buck's Passion. His first squress achievement and conductorship camped the edge
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of twenty when he conducted and accompanied in the performance of Bach's Passion. He
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made his first public appearance in England at the Philarmarock Concert, when, at
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the age of twenty, he directed the performance of one of his earliest Sympathies,
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which was most favorably received. The following year he was offered but declined,
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the newly found chair of music at the University of Berlin. He visited
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Italy and a stout of the Roman musicians by his improvisation. Thereafter, he
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spent some months in Paris, where it became known to the public in concerts.
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At twenty four. He was made director of the Music Festival at Zoldorff
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at twenty six except the position of conductor of the guendor's concert Saint Leipzig,
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the highest position attainable in the German musical world. During this period he composed
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the overture to the Hebrides, Wildberger's Knight and the oratorio Saint paul A I
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I i Q one fifty five will have coached at appoint seventy five. Wolfgog
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Near Madeus Mozart seventeen fifty six to seventeen ninety one, a celebrated Austrian composer
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AIQ one hundred fifty AIIQ one hundred fifty five one family standing. The Mozart
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family belonged originally to the Artesian class. The grandfather was a book binder.
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The father determined to rise out of the rank of his ancestors, studied law
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and also music. He became orchestral director in Salzburg and was the author of
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many musical compositions, as well as a standard work on a violin playing.
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The mother, a daughter of the steward of the convent of Saint Gilgen,
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was a good woman, but in no way of distinguished. Two Development wage
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seventeen one interests from before your sixth year. Mozart's sole absorbing interest was in
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music, and even the games he played had some musical element. Whatever he
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did was done wholeheartedly. But apparently he had few interests and related to music,
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so absorbing was in his art. At the age of ten, however,
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he constructed mentally an imaginary kingdom of children in which he was king.
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He had a map of it drawn by a servant according to specifications which he
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drew up. At about the same time, he planned to compose an opera
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to be presented by the children of Salzburg. At the age of eleven,
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he became skillful in card games and a good fencer. Before he was sixteen,
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he had felt the pleasures and pains of a first love. Two education.
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When Mozart was between three and four, he was taught by his father
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to play at the clavier. He learned minouts and other pieces, which he
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soon played with perfect correctness. At an exact time, at the age of
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seven, he began to receive instruction in singing by an Italian master, and
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at fourteen he was studying and executing the most difficult counterpoint. Meanwhile, his
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general education was not neglected. He studied arithmatic at the usual age, and
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evidence of a smattering of Latin appear in letters written at thirteen, while the
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correspondence of the following years shows that he had picked up some Italian in the
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course of his travels. Three schools standing in progress, no specific record.
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Four friends and associates. Mosart's associates were the musicians and the courtiers of Europe.
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Everyone liked the agreeable and talented little fellow and made much of him.
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His sister was his comrade and confident. Five reading Mozart mentions reading the Arabian
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Nights in Italian when it was fourteen six. Production and achievement. At the
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age of five, Mozart first felt the impost to produce, and little pases
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he composed were written down by his father. Three works are recorded before the
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age of six, a minout and trio for clavier, opera one, a
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minute Op. Two and allegro Op. Three. These are not particularly original,
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but they exhibit the rounded, simple melody always characteristic of their composer.
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When Mosart was seven, his first published work appeared four so letters for piano
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and violin, one of which showed especially remarkable taste. Twenty the ages of
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seven and fifteen he composed works for piano forte and violin, pianoforte, concertos,
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masses and church music, eighteen symphonies, two operettas at the age of
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fourteen, an opera when he was twelve. His first operator was performed.
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At thirteen, he received an appointment as Grand Duke or concertmaster, without salary.
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In his first year of office, he composed twenty numbers. At the
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age of fourteen, his first Italian opera was presented with great success. During
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these years, his musical genius were so prolific that his fingers ached with the
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work of committing its ideas to paper. At sixteen he received his first salary.
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Mozart was ability execudivist as well as a great creative genius. His first
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musical tour was undertaken at the age of six, when he visited Munich and
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met there with a very favorable reception. By eight the year, two more
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successful tours had been made, the first to Vienna and cities en route,
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the second through Germany. From his eight three fifteenth year, Mozart visited Paris,
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London, Daygue, Amsterdam and Vienna for a second time. Two tours
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swiftly were carried out in his sixteenth and seventeenth years. Mosartes let us show
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the characteristics of an average precollege student seven evidences of precocity. When he was
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three or four, Mozart began to invent musical ideas. Impressed by saying his
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sister play, he seated himself at the clavier and picked out thirds to his
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great delight. Even at that early age, he could retain musical passages that
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he had heard. On one occasion, for his fifth birthday, he learned
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at half past nine at night at half an hour a minute and a trio
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pieces requiring independence of the two hands and some musical comprehension. Before he was
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six, Mozart had begun to insist upon the presence of real connoisseurs whenever he
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played his first concerto, the little musician wrote down himself. The writing composition
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was at door, but there was no real order in its music. The
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child exceeded expectations on his first Michael tours and proceeded everywhere as prodigy. He
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was an enthusiastic critic of the playing of others. He played charmingly, whether
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with one finger, with a keyboard covered or in the usual way. At
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seven, his extraordinary sense of absolute pitch was discovered, as well as remarkable
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skill with the violin in the organ, which he had never been taught.
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His repertoire included the naming of any note played at a distance, improvising any
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key on the hypers chord or organ, and transposed into any key. He
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could supply the accompaniment to a singer without knowing the air in advance, or
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to a dictator melody without the use of the clavier. In his tenth year
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he was called by Chiudi the instrument Maker, the most extraordinary performer in the
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world, and the same year he was investigated in London by a lawyer who
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reported proofs of the boy's decided inventive power. Compass positions from the following year
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revealed remarkable ability in elaborating a theme. Locked up for a week by an
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incredulous archbishop and required to prove his ability to write an oratoria without outside aid,
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Mozart age eleven achieved a brilliant triumph, a mature musical composition, although
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written with blot of notes in a childish hand. At fourteen in row Mosa
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performed me a standing fate of transferring the paper to the illeguy Miserare after hearing
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it performed in the sustained chapel. In recognition of the powers of the gifted
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boy, the Pope conferred upon him the Order of the Golden Spur and was
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admitted to the Bolognese Philademonic Society. Musical compositions continued to flow from his pen,
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and even the Abele's critics united him, praising him AIQ. One hundred
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and fifty willive Koshet at a point seventy five three development from seventeen to twenty
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six. From seventeen to twenty six, when Mozart finally settled in Vienna,
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he led it a matter consistence. Visiting Italy, returned to Salzburg and spending
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some time in Munich, Augsburg, Mannheim, Paris, returned to Salzburg and
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then a game to Munich, Vienna, Augsburg, and finally Vienna. In
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spite of traveling, quarrels with patrons and financial difficulties, Mozart managed to compose
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continually and produced during this time an extraordinary number of works. A nineteen of
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the opera La Finta guiro Dineria was produced and praised by a distinguished critic as
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showing wonderful genius in indicating that Mozart would be the greatest composer that had ever
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lived. At this age, the young lad was a skilled performer on the
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piano, violin and viler, a ready composer in the most varied branches of
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music, sacred and secular vocal music, sonatas, trios and concertos for the
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pianoforte, chamber music, and works for the organ. In addition, he
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had studied musical theory. At twenty four, he composed his first true masterpiece,
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Idomenino, produced the following year. This was a pronounced success, deciding
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once for all Mozart's position as a dramatic composer. On his final settlement in
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Vienna, in addition to composing youth cave lessons and concerts, and performed in
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aristocratic homes. Die Ententhlung or stem serreel, written at the empress command and
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produced when Mosat was twenty six and a month after its composer's marriage, was
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received with acclamation. Mozart's genius seemed to be continually nourished, rather than sapped
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by it s extraordinary fertility in production a i i Q one hundred fifty five
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relive koshert at appoint seventy five. Ernest Ranan eighteen twenty three to eighteen twenty
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nine, an eminent French writer, orientalist, and critic ai i Q one
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hundred fifty a i i i Q one hundred sixty one. Family standing on
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the farther's side, Venin's forebearers were bret On sailors, courageously and stubbornly,
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republican principle, and melancholy in temperament. Is not improbable that the father's death
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at sea was a suicide. On the mother's side, Rahnon was of Gascon
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blood from a family of traitors in Bordeaux, cheerful religious folk and royalist sympathy
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from both lines of ancestry. Renan was a true child of the people.
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Two development to age seventeen. One interests. Renan was early attracted aged six
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or seven, by stories and legends told him by his mother, by some
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old announcements and Gothic letters, and by an old tome of Cantigx de Marciers,
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over which he amused interminably. He carried on discussions in politics with the
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housemaid Cognat. A schoolmate says that at sixteen Venanne's prose style turned distinctly toward
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the romantic and away from the class school. Two education. Renane, at
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nine entered on a scholarship the ecclesiastical school by his native town of Trugier.
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At fifteen he went to Paris on a second scholarship to enter the ecclesiastical training
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school of Saint Nicholas du Chardonnet. Three schools standing in progress from nine to
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fifteen, ren and one first or second prize each year at Trigguau, and
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in the last year won the first prize in each of nine subjects taught in
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the school had Saint Nicholas did Chottenet. After a period of homessetness and misery,
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he finally won at the age of seventeen the covided first place in his
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class. Four friends and associates. No records are preserved of intimate friends.
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Cognat letter Abe was an Admira and a fellow student at Saint Nicholas of dupennonp.
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The director of the school, Renan wrote, he is most beautiful and
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the most lofty mind that I have so far known. His youth ernest,
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greatly loved and mighty his teachers, the priests at the College of Trigudeau five
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reading the morale and action rate next too te Lema in its influence on Radin's
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childhood. In Paris. Youth age sixteen was intoxicated by the works of Michellette,
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Hugo and Laritin. Boussette and Fenlon were subjects of eager discussion. Six's
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production and achievement. Year after year, Brannon carried away the first prize in
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Latin sometimes as at Triggio. Aged fifteen, he won prizes in all his
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subjects. At sixteen, he wrote, among other works, a Hymned to
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the Virgin Seven Evidences of Precocity. At the age of six, Rennan announced
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his ambition to become a writer of books. He won a scholarship with the
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College of Triggia at nine years of age. She also two one, three
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and six a I iik Wander and fifty relived Kochnut at a point seventy five
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three developed from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen, enhanced by the prose
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of Magellet, Renin refused to imitate further the immobile style of Brupelont, the
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distinguished director of the school. At nineteen he was wonderfully moved by his studies
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on philosophy and Saint Sulspice. The works of the Germans cant Hegel and Herder
41:07
especially impressed him. At twenty one, having finally accepted that tonsieur and minor
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orders, he turned to the study of comparative philology, devoted himself primarily to
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the Semitic languages. At twenty four he received the Prix Volney one thousand two
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Hndred Francs for his history general at sits Dain compared this language some DEGs.
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A U letter of twenty five. His study of all Greek languages in the
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West of Europe was crowned by the Academy of Inscriptions at Bale's letters a i
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Q one hundred and sixty will have coached at a point seventy five. George
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sand Aurora Dupin eight o four to eighteen seventy six a French novelist a i
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Q one hundred fifty a i i i Q one hundred fifty one. Family
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standing. Aurora Dupin was descended on her father's side from Augustus of Saxony and
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threw him related to the royal houses of Germany and France. Her father was
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a brilliant, adventurous soldier with the nature of an artist. Her mother,
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a milliner, the daughter of a boodseller, was during her married life a
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respectable, active, industrious woman, as she was always a clever one,
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and her own way something of an artist and a poet two Developmenttwege seventeen one.
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Interests. Aurora's first recorded interest was inhering and narrating poetical or friends all
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tales. She attempted to satisfy a desire for strange mental experiences by qunjuring up
42:39
hallucinations, but trice she would, she was never quite successful. She was
42:45
devoted to reading two composing poems, and to wandering about the hill sides,
42:50
playing with the country children, or listening to the Hertzman's ghost stories when the
42:54
little girl's mother had allowed to her So Vivitu was the child's imagination that scenes
42:59
appeared to her as if really pictured on the fire screen by her side.
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At the convent school, Aurora, at sixteen at a mystic vision, which
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deeply impressed her, and in consequence she thought of becoming a nun, but
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her confessor advised against this course. She was dreamy, meditative and passionate,
43:16
with a face strangely fascinating and expressive of strong intellectual enthusiasms. The outdoor country
43:22
life the solitude delighted her, but she became known as an eccentric two education.
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Aurora's first three years were spent with her parents in their Paris lodging.
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At the age of four, and later she traveled with the family during the
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campaign to Spain, and there she was a great favor of her father's General
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Murat. The little girl was given in jest the uniform of an Ais de
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camp. At her father's death, when she was no more than four,
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little Aurora was left to the upbringing of her mother, the Milliner, and
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her grandmother, the grand dam. Toward the age of five, she learned
43:59
to write seven or eight. She could spell, but not correctly, for
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indeed, she never acquired this heart. By learning to write by herself,
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she learned to understand what she read. When she was about nine years old,
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she was taught music by her grandmother, by whom the principles were made
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so clear that did not seem like swallowing the ocean. She later believed that
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she would have become a musician if she had devoted herself to the zarte,
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as she had aptitude for it and an appreciation of the beautiful. The earliest
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studies had really pleased Aurora at this time were history, in geography, music,
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and literature. At thirteen, she began to receive lessons from her father's
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former tutor, an eccentric pendant, who encouraged her independent ways. The coffer
44:39
between plebeian mother and aristocratic grandmother sharpened the young girl's discrimination of the elements of
44:45
character and Chris's sympathies, and developed especially a keen understanding of the attitudes of
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the oppressed classes. On one occasion, the grandmother, in fear of death,
44:54
disclosed to her granddaughter all her grievances against her daughter in law. It
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was like a nightmarriage, wrote Aurora. Aurora spent her early teens in a
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convent. On her removal, thence she continued studies at home, including her
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course English, Italian, some Latin, and the natural sciences. A young
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man of the neighborhood instruct her in osteology. Aurora's attitude toward religion was in
45:22
keeping with her erratic and passionate nature. In early years, she was not
45:24
taught religion, but rather permitted to believe or reject as she would, the
45:30
miracles of antiquity. At the time of receiving her first communion at the age
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of twelve or thirteen, she learned the cachism like a parrot, without seeking
45:38
to understand it, and firmly resolved not to retain or believe a word of
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it. The next three years. Leaving in the Convent of the Augustinians,
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she became for a time very religious. Then she lost her enthusiasm for religious
45:51
observance. But throughout these years she observed the nuns to such good purpose that
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she was able letter to use them as characters in her novels. Her grandmother,
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fearing the fanaticism of the priests, took her away from the convent at
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the age of sixteen three schools standing in progress c. Two two four.
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Friends and associates c. Two one, two and six. The members of
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the family, the nuns and her fellow pupils, and the convent, her
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tutors and the neighbors were Aurora's associates, but her grandmother and her mother exerted
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a greater influence upon her than any others. Five reading at an early age
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seven to eight, little girl read books of sacred history and probably Comells's other
46:36
works. At eight or nine, she found at Noahat the tales of Madame
46:40
de Louris and of Perotte, which were her delight for five or six years.
46:46
At this time she began to read by herself and a bridge dish of
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Greek mythology, which gave her great enjoyment because it resembled fairy tales in some
46:54
respects. At about the age of twelve, she read Jew's Delude and the
46:59
Iliad. The poems of tassau Tella and Paul and Virginia were her favorite books.
47:05
Her reading at sixteen included philosophy, poetry, and ethics. She read
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Locke, contilec, Montesquio, Boussette, Pascal Montaigne, and Rosselle, whom
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she considered apart from the others, and she devoured the books of the moralists
47:19
and poets La Bourriere, Pope Milton, Dante, Virgil, and Shakespeare.
47:24
All this reading was too much for her sensibilities and excited her brain. After
47:30
reading Chateaubrierde's Renee, she was discussed with life and attempted to commit suicide,
47:35
but she was hindered in her design by the good sense of her horse,
47:37
who refused to become a party to her scheme by drowning stain and rider.
47:43
She read Bacon, Aristotle, Leibnitz, the novels of Madame de Kenlis and
47:47
of van der Welde, as well as Chateaubriade's Genie du Cristianesi six, Production
47:57
and Achievement at seven or eight. A rory composed story that never ended and
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acted them with her sister or another little companion. Her compositions were a mixture
48:06
of everything that entered her head. Mythology and religion, combined the Three Graces,
48:10
the Nine Muses, mother Goose, the Angels, the Virgin, the
48:14
Good Fairy, Panchelinos and magicians, imps of the theater, and saints of
48:19
the church. Finding at the age of ten or a little later that her
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grandmother did not compare her resumes the books she had read with the originals,
48:27
she launched forth more and more into personal appreciations without worrying about the opinion of
48:31
the authors. Finally, she began to find opportunities for slipping in descriptions and
48:37
original embellishments. Towards the age of twelve, she tried her hand at entirely
48:42
original descriptive pieces. These, her grandmother declared were masterpieces, but her motherly
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laughed at her fine phrases. At twelve or thirteen, she began to compose
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a poem which based at least one thousand cantos, and which, although none
48:55
of it was written down, became a living part of little girl's existence.
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So absorbed did she become in her fantasy that she finally erected an altar to
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the godlike hero of her creation. At fourteen, Aurora directed and presented from
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memory Whiliere's Malare Imaginary, which de lighted the nuns, who were quite ignorant
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of the original warthrow. Before she was sixteen, the young author believed that
49:17
she discovered the middle term between free prose and regular verse rhyming prose, and
49:22
she composed many verses in this new medium. At the same time she wrote
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a pastoral poem and her first prose narrative, a religious novel one hundred pages
49:32
long. The verses, however, pleased her more than the prose servant evidence
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of the precocity. Little Roorer had learned to walk a ten months. She
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began to talk rather late, but as soon as she had begun to say
49:46
a few words, she learned many more very quickly. Before she was three,
49:51
she would amuse herself while penned in by four chairs, telling interminable stories
49:55
in which were said to figure few bad people and no serious trouble. Perhaps
50:00
these faults might be pardoned so young an author, but the critical mother did
50:05
not hesitate to say that the tales were most tiresome on account of their length
50:08
and the development given to digressions. She also two one two five at six
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ai i q. One hundred and fifty that if Kosher ded ap point seventy
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five three development from seventeen to twenty six. Already independent in thought and action,
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at the age of seventeen, or La was developing her literary and critical
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pend by reading Plutarch, Levy, Heerydotus, Tacadus, and Roussel. Of
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these, she was especially devoted to Roussel, whose philosophy fascinated her. On
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the death of her grandmother, Aurora was taken by her mother to Paris,
50:43
but she found the life they led their intolerable. Rather more to escape the
50:47
situation than from love, she married at eighteen m Dudevant. With such a
50:52
beginning, misunderstanding between her husband and wife gradually developed, in spite of the
50:55
birth of two children. Just after she was twenty one, a Rauner began
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a platonic friendship with Aurelian Diceis, which lasted four years. When Madame Dudavant
51:07
was twenty six, the family visited the Pyrenees, Monte Doors and Paris.
51:12
Of these travels, even in conjunction with the birth of their second child,
51:15
could not close a briche whining between the ordinary man and his superior wife.
51:21
At twenty seven, Madame Dudavant separated from her husband and left for Paris with
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the intention of entering upon her literary career. Aiq Onution fifty relived coasted at
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a point seven five. Frederic Ourners Daniel Schlerimacher seventeen sixty eight eighteen thirty four,
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a celebrad German philosopher and theologian AIQ one d In fifty AIQ one hundred
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forty five. One family standing. Schlerimericer's father and both of his grandfathers were
51:52
pastor as the Reformed Church. The mother was devoted to her children and supervised
51:57
her education during the frequent absences of her husband. Two developmental age seventeen one
52:05
interests. As recorded, Schlerimarcho's interests were chiefly religious, scholastic and after the
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age of sixteen literary and philosophical. Was between the ages of sixteen and eighteen
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that Schleromacho determined to make a thorough study of theology. Two Education. Schleromacher's
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early home atmosphere was Orthodox in Evangelical. His earliest training was received from his
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mother, apparently a born teacher, and before he had reached the age of
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four, young Fritz had learned to read. From his sixth and tilli his
52:35
tenth year, he returned school in Breslau, then following a period of instruction
52:38
on home, where a certain pressure was brought to bear in an attempt to
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overcome his conceit, he was sent to the police school, where he remained
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until he was thirteen. From thirteen to fourteen he attended the boarding school of
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Religious sect and this was followed by two years at the excellent Moravian school at
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Neiski Exixten. He entered the Barbari's seminary the Maravi Universe, and remained there
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two years three school standing and progress because at his first school, the boy
53:07
aged five to nine acquired the elements of lat And very rapidly and committed the
53:10
vocables to memory with unusual ease, the half of which I had usually forgotten.
53:15
The next day he passed quickly through the lower forms and gained a reputation
53:21
for cleverness. It became somewhat conceited from being above many older and larger boys,
53:25
But his pride was humbled when a Latin author was substituted for the grammar,
53:30
for he discovered that whereas the words could be easily translated, the meaning
53:35
was less readily grasped. He became confused, and then, saying that all
53:38
the other boys were not thus disturbed, he decided that his own cleverness was
53:44
spurious. For this time he was often conscious of the very fragmentary character of
53:47
his knowledge, and it was frightened when he discovered great lucunae, which he
53:52
supposed did not exist in the knowledge of others. In a letter to a
53:57
brother written when the boy was six, other reported that the pastor was much
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pleased with the lad's attendantness and distinct answers in religious instruction. At seven,
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Schller Marcher was the smallest boy in school, but it even then was at
54:10
the head of his class, a third form. From the age of five
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to seven, his weekly report of lessons and deportment read once fair, otherwise
54:20
it was uniformly good, industrious, very good, very industrious. At the
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age of nine, ten and perhaps eleven, he conceived a dislike for the
54:27
sciences. He began to hate languages, and he felt he had no aptitude
54:31
for them. In spite of this, when he was eleven he impressed the
54:35
plus head, mastered by his comprehension and industry. In a letter from his
54:39
mother we read that her son would have been able to enter the university at
54:44
fourteen if he had been left at school in Breslow. So quickly does he
54:47
progress in everything. Inspired by a tutor, Schller Marcher became between eleven thirteen
54:53
enthusiastically interested in classical languages, and had rapidly lost his earlier distaste. He
55:00
jealously guarded his reputation for cleverness and kept the flame of his ambition burning brightly
55:05
by reading tales of celebrated men we did. The age of thirteen, it
55:08
developed a Strand's skepticism, conceiving the idea that all recorded history and ancient authors
55:14
was superstitious. He told this theory to no one, but he termined to
55:19
verify it later by his own investigations. A second of the struggle occurred at
55:23
this time, aroused by a consideration of the doctrine of the natural corruption of
55:29
man. At fifteen, and by his own desire, Schlamacha was confirmed as
55:35
Scini entered the Moravian University, being unusually young for this promotion. Four friends
55:40
and associates Shelmatra's teachers, with one accord, interested themselves in him and gave
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him assistance and encouragement. He is in several friend and classmate at the Moravian
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school, became later a Moravian bishop. Five reading at an early age,
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Shalamacha read The Children's Friend, a book of Knowledge at fourteen with his friend
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von Albertini at the Moravian school, Shlimacher fell upon the Greek classics and devoured
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them rapidly. With the scant aid of an inadequate dictionary and grammar, the
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two boys attacked and vanquished the Greek Old Testament in a similar manner. At
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sixteen, Schlairmacher was reading a critical literary journal, and between seventeenth and his
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nineteenth year in his friends read cats Prolegomania six, Production and Achievement A drawing
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executed nine was a birthday gift to his mother, a turner eleven Shermasha taught
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his little brother to read and to reckon. In a group of essays written
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at fourteen, the ladincorporated quotations from Greek classics not included in the assigned readings.
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These he had not read out of school hours. Letters to his sister
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telling of his interests and activities are preserved. The first, written when he
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was fourteen and three fourths seven evidences of precocity. Shlih Mach elearned to read
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at the age of four were nearly five, began to attend school, where
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he quickly won a reputation for cleverness. When he was six. His mother
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wrote that he gave her much hope, as he had both a good heart
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and a good head. A turnal eleven, little Fritz was worried over such
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problems as a doctoral maternal punishment and the atonement ai i q one dred and
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The narrow spiritual atmosphere of the theological semony, which entirely lacked facilities for gany.
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Acquaintance with monocritical works so riched tou Pon Schleirmacer that at eighteen he was
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again assailed by religious doubt. A little later he left the seminary to go
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to the University of Hayle. He refound a new attitude and to hear strange
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customs. But he strove to overcome his shyness and pursued his studies in French,
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English, Greek and religious philosophy with more than customary zeal. After passing
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his university examination at twenty one and two thirds, he was appointed tudor to
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the family of a Prussian count with whom he spent three happy year. I
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there was kept busy with his preceptorial studies. He also preached a number of
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sermons. At twenty four he left the Count's service and became a member of
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A Berlin's Seminary for College Teachers. He had also a teaching position before his
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twenty six he had accepted, in addition to his other duties, an appointment
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as curate at Landsberg AIQ one t forty five live coached ADEBTA point seventy five.
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Walter Scott seventeen seventy one to eighteen thirty two a famous Scottish novelist and
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poet AIQ one fifty AIQ one hundred and fifty five one family standing. The
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Scott family belonged to the Scottish gentry. Walter's grandfather was a successful cattle raiser
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who acquired a considerable fortune. His father, a man of practical though untaught
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philosophy, was a lawyer. The poet's mother was a woman of culture and
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imagination who had had a better education than most of the Scottish women of herday.
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She was the daughter of doctor Rutherford, professor of medicine in the University
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of Edinburgh, pupil of Bodhaeve and a distinguished member of a distinguished family two
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developed twenty seventeen one interests. During his childhood and boyhood, Scott suffered from
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Perit's illness, and for this reason his interests were turned from the sports in
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which he was unable to join to quiet pursuits. The reading of Scottish history
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and balors soon grew to be his passion. As school aged seven to eleven,
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he won popularity and applause for his stories, and at fourteen he and
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his friend Irving started the practice which they maintained for three years, of composing
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martial and miraculous legends during holidays for each other's enjoyment. At sixteen, during
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a serious illness followed by nervous depression, Scott's only resources were reading, chess,
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playing, and the quiet sport of arranging campaigns of pebbles upon his bed
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and so fighting the through Fertot's Knights of Malta and other works of the kind.
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During his later convalescence, it was his delight to take long walks or
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rides, especially to the scenes of historical events. He preferred a battlefield to
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a beautiful view, and an each historic spot he gathered some souvenir. Another
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consequence of his early ill health was that he came to love solitude, utilizing
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it for the exercise of his invention in tale and ballid. By the age
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of thirteen, a love of natural objects had been a rouse which was never
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abated. Scott delighted in the theater, an interest which at its birth in
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his first visit there at the age of four, to see as you like
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it whichever after remained a vivid picture in his mind. In spite of the
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efforts of his teachers, Scott was unable to master the technique of music and
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painting, but his interest in literature grew, and at fifteen he used his
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earnings to learn Italian so that he might read the literary treasures in that language.
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Two education. At three or four, Scott learned to read in a
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dame school, with occasional supplementary lessons from an art an aged grandmother told young
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Walter Many a Highland tale and legend. After a few private lessons in Latin,
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he was sent to his eighth year to the grammar school at Edinburgh.
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In addition, he received lessons from a tutor at home. At eleven,
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he was advanced to the reactor's class, where he read Caesar Livy and Sallist,
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Virgil, Horace and Terence. At thirteen, the lad's health compelled another
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retirement to the country, and though here tended the country grammar school, receiving
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also private instruction from the schoolmaster, who was an excellent classical scholar. He
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entered college at fourteen and studied little philosophy as Greek, but his course there
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was frequently interrupted by ill health. On resuming his studies after a break of
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this kind, he took up mathematics, ethics, moral philosophy, history and
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law. Unfortunately, the courses too proved to be more than a smattering of
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each to be obtained. At fifteen, Scott was apprenticed to his father to
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learn the business of the law. Three schools standing in progress. As school,
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Scott was behind his class and so fell into the habit of doing inferior
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work. His master was annoyed by this, for he recognized the boy's ability.
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On one occasion Scott succeeded in winning a place at the top of the
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class by a ruse, and from that time he maintained his high position,
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being encouraged to strive to excel by the wreck of statement that others might understand
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the Latin better, but Scott's understanding of the meaning was seldom exceeded. At
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the country school, Scott at thirteen as did as Usher, and heard the
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lower classes recite their lessons. At the public examination, he was chosen to
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recite a Latin ballad, was most fickle in retaining names, dates had historical
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technicalities. At college, in his fifteenth year, he refused to study Greek
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because the other members of his class were better prepared for the class work than
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he. In ethics, he progressed to the satisfaction of his instructor, who
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selected him as one of a small groups to read original essays before the principle
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four friends and associates. An early friend was an old soldier who told Scott
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eight seven long tales of his campaigns. A little later, the friendship was
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somewhat strained by a disagreement in regard to Burgoyne's chances of success. It was
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the boy's prediction which proved to be correct. Scott's most intimate friend from Childwood
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was John Irving. Later a writed to the Signette five reading two or three
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odd books were read to Scotland. He was between four and seven years of
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age. Of these order mates and Ramesy's Tea Table Misclle were his favorites.
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To these were added Letter a volume of Joseph's Wars of the Jews. After
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his aunt had read these works allowed to him a number of times, he
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was able to repeat long passages for memory. The Ballad of Hardignunt he mastered
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before he was six, and so delighted was he by its rhythm that he
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shouted all about the house. Pilgrim's Progress, Guestner's Death of Abel, and
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Rose's Letters were allowed for Sunday reading while at home on account of his labors,
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Scott read to his mother in Pope's Homer and got by heart without intention,
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the pastures which pleased him most, later reciting them often, especially in
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solitary hours. He was very fond of the penny chap books, containing little
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humorous tales and prose. At the age of thirteen, Walton made the aquatenance
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of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered and Percy's Reliques. The latter became his constant companion,
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and was read and re read frequently. At about the same time, the
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boy read the works of Mackenzie, Richardson and other novelists. Soon he extended
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his reading to include everything upon which he could lay hands. When early friend
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opened his library to him, the boy found Ossian and Spencer. The latter
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he could have read river, and the number of Spencer's verses he retained in
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memory was marvelous. At the age of thirteen, in the country, Scott
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had access to a circulating library, a subscription library, and some private bookshelves.
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Few ever read so much or to so little purpose. Doing his low
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apprenticeship, Scott continued to read anything and everything, except novels of the lighter
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sort, which he detested. At sixteen, he was reading even more widely,
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including in his study the romantic prose writers of Italy, France and England,
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and especially during his illness, historical works dealing with military events, six
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production and achievement. Before he was eleven, Water began writing down all the
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ballots he could gather together, and his collections soon filled six little volumes.
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His twelfth year, encouraged by the rector's praise, he wrote translations from the
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classics. A lines were considered the second best on the occasion upon which they
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were presented. In the following year, he wrote a number of poems,
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of which two are preserved, and at fifteen he wrote the Conquest of Grenada
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in four books. Each book amounted to about four lines, servant evidence of
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supplicocity. The following story is told by Missus Cockburn, who was distantly related
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to Scott's mother. My last night supped in mister Walter Scott's he had the
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most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw who was reading a poem to
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his mother. When I went in, I made him read on. It
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was description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with a storm. He lifted
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his eyes and hands. There's the mast gone, says he, pressia goes,
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they will all perish. I preferred a little chat and ask his opinion
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of Milton and other books he was reading, which he gave me wonderfully.
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One of his observation was, how strange it is that Adam just never come
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into the world, should know everything. That must be the poet's fancy,
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says he. But when he was told he was created perfect by God,
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he instantly yielded. When taken to bed last night, he told his aunt,
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he to that lady, what lady she says? Why Missus Cockburn?
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For I think she is a virtue or so like myself. Dear Walter says,
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Aunt, Jenny, what is a virtue? Or so don't you know
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why? It's one who wishes and will know everything A I i Q onere
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Scott's legal apprenticeship lasted to his nineteenth year. During the last two years
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of it, the youth aged seventy to nineteen was a member of one or
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another literary society, where, although not a good speaker, he always created
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a favorable impression. A sense of inferiority in comparison with his fellows due to
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his physical infirmity, led him from people to books, especially philosophical works.
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From nineteen to twenty one, Scott read for the bar, and, having
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passed with credit the Ordeals in his twenty second year, he commenced to practice
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at all the law courts, still, however, giving a fair portion of
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his time to the study of German to which he was devoted in the following
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summer. A visit to the Highlands provided material later incorporated in his early poems
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and prose romances. At twenty three he was appointed curator of the Advocate's Library,
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Shortly after, he published his first series of translations of German ballads A
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