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XX. CASES RATED AT AI IQ 160 to 170. Part 1 · Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses

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Section thirty two of Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume two, The Early Mental
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Traits of three hundred Geniuses by Katharine Cox. This is of the Brivox according
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or the Brivox Accordings in the public domain. For more information on a volunteer,
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please visit the Brivox dot org recorded by Leon Harvey. Chapter twenty cases
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rated at ai Q one hundred sixty two one hundred seventy Part one. Jacques
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Benning Boussette sixteen twenty seven seventeen overty four a French prelate and celebrated purepet orator,
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historian and theological writer ai Q one hundred sixty AQ one hundred sixty one.
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Family standing. Boussett came of a family of magistrates remarkable for their good
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sense, activity, and religious faith. Several members of his immediate family were
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priests, including his father, who entered the church in old age after he
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had achieved eminence in a successful career as a lawyer. Of Bossaert's mother,
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it is known only that she was a pierced woman who consecrated her son to
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the church at the time of his birth. Two development tweight seventeen one interests
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Beaussert had from the first, but too interests in life, religion and scholarship.
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Two Education. His unusual ability was early discovered by his uncle and he
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was sent to the Jesuit school in Dijon, where he received a classical and
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religious education. At the age of eight, he was given the tonsure by
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the Bishop of Langrise as a sign of consecration at the church, and at
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thirteen he went to the College of Navare in Paris to study theology. Three
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schools. Standing on progress from the first, he surpassed all others of his
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age, and masters and pupils soon measured him only in terms of his own
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ability. It was a child only in appearance. His mind was mature at
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birth apparents he became as noted as a Dijon on account of his talent was
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speaking. The university chose him for public address on festival days. He became
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an object of admiration and was soon snatched from his obscurity. Four friends and
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associates, no specific record. Five. Reading. Bossert early developed a passion
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for reading, being especially fond of poetry. Homer, he placed above all
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poets and orators. Always referred to him as a divine Homer, and he
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also greatly admired Horace and Virtue, but the Bible was his favorite book,
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especially the poetry of the Bible. Six production achievement. At the age of
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thirteen, Bassett became a canon of Metz. At sixteen, on going to
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Paris, he was invited at the Hotel de Rambouillet to give an extemporous sermon.
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In his address, he contrasted the glory of Jesus with the glory of
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earthly potentates and heroes, developing a comparison between the lives of Christ and Alexander
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the Great, and concluded with a description of the last judgment. The admiration
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excited by his brilliant discourse was echoed throughout Paris. While at Naver Bussut had
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been wont to attend the theater, where he was charmed by the tragedies of
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Cuneo, and under this influence he began to write Madrugal's and pierced poems in
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the prescio taste of the age. See also two three seven Evidences of precocity
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c. Two, two, three, and six. According to Lambertaine,
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Baussart exhibited no faults of foibles in his childhood. He seemed to have no
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other passion than in the good and the beautiful. His appearance even at thirteen,
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attracted admiration as an index of rare genius and spirituality a io q on
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hundred and sixty relative cochett a point sixt zero three development from seventeen to twenty
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six. At seventeen, Busset received the bacheloor's degree in philosophy and two years
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later in theology, for a thesis dedicated to Conde. The great hero came
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in person to listen and participate in the discussion. This was the beginning of
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a warm friendship between the distinguished statesmen and the young prett. Nine months later,
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Boussette was attained to subdeacon at Langurese, and at this time he definitely
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gave up his life to the church. During the year he wrote meditation s
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La Rivette de la Ville. Busset formed a friendship with Saint Vincent DuPaul,
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who also played on his religious zeal as to lead him almost into fanaticism.
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He maintained his equalirium by studying poetry in oratory and by visiting the theater where
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he heard the Great Tragedians. At twenty five having passed a brilliant examination in
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a air Boussette, was ordained a priest, and the following month was made
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a doctor of Notre Dame. In the same year, having been created Archdeacon
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of Cereboorg, he withdrew to Matz, where he soon gained fame for his
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brilliant sermons and orations. A i q. One hundred and sixty with at
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kochetene point five three. Henry Peter Brown seventeen seventy eight to eighteen sixty eight
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a celebrated British statesman, oratory, jurist and scientist ai q. One hundred
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and sixty ai Q one hundred seventy one. Family standing. Browham's grandfather was
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a prosperous attorney who acted as steward to the Dukes of Norfolk. Of the
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father, it is known only that due to a great shock he lost his
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reason for a time. The mother was a woman of rare sagacity and unusual
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powers of judgment. Her father was a minister of the Church of Scotland.
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Her uncle was doctor Robertson, the historian. It was to his maternal grandmother,
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however, that Browham felt he owed most beautiful intellectual and clear and understanding.
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She instilled in her grandson the first principles of the persevering energy that enabled
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him to accomplish what he did. Two development to age seventeen one interests.
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Browham's interests were at first scholastic, literary, then scientific, and finally legal
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c. Two, three, five and six two Education. Just after Browham
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had been to ought to read by his father, a fever destroyed all his
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knowledge, so that he could not recall even the letters. With returning health,
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came rapidly learning at before long Henry was ready to enter a day's school.
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His grandmother worked with him day by day, and such was his progress
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that at seven he had outgrown his first school and as ready for a second.
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At eleven, he entered a third school, in which he was enrolled
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for two years, although he was absent practically the whole of the first year
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on account of illness. When he left this school, he was ready for
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college, but was considered still too young to enter the higher institution. Consequently,
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he remained with his family, who were spending the year in the country.
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A tudor had been engaged to supervise the boy's studies, but Henry depended
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little on this guidance, always did his work by himself, schooling assistance,
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and never apply for help when he could possibly avoid it. During the year,
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the boy read the classics with his father, and, encouraged by him,
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tried his hand at writing. Had fourteen, he entered the university.
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Before he was seventeen, he had exhausted the ordinary university curriculum in the humanities,
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physics, rhetoric and ethics, but without graduating. Since the university gave
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neither examinations nor degrees except in medicine, his choice of law as a profession
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necessitated tennis at university lectures for two additional years. Three schools standing in progress.
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Under his grandmother's careful tuition, little Browham not only won and kept a
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good place in his class, but even made his teacher confess himself an error
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on a dispute point in Latin. The victory won the boy great credit among
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his schoolfellows, and Browham was called the boy that had licked the master.
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At third school age eleventh thirteen, the teacher excited in his pupils and iardent
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love for the subjects taught, and a spirit of inquiry into all things that
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related to them. During the period of his illness, Browam made distinct progress
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in learning. He kept up his reading and tried his hand at composition.
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His mother records he went through all the classics with credit and came away ducks
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of the fifth class. The examination was in August at Wirch time, he
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had not reached the age of thirteen, an age unusually early, considering two
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that he had been only one year instead of two, the usual number in
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the rector's class. At sixteen at the university, Brown hit on the binomal
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theorem by induction. As he desired to master the fluxional calculus, his professor
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Playfair advised him to read Bezoit, and this he did with much profit.
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Four friends and associates before he was fourteen. Browham's chief associates were his teachers
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and the members of his family. At the university, aged fourteen or seventeen,
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he was closely associated with a group of men later distinguished as statesmen,
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warriors, or churchmen, whose celebrity was destined to spread far beyond the confines
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of Edinburgh. The eminent mathematician Playfair became a lifelong friend and correspondent. Five
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reading. An omnivorous reader, with the tenacious memory and almost superhuman powers replication.
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He amassed a store of miscellaneous learning during his early years beyond the wildest
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imagination of schoolboy or undergraduate South of the tweed. He had a wide and
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fairly accurate knowledge of the Roman poets, orators, and historians. He memorized
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large portions of Cicero and Virgil, but they were ever at the tip of
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his tongue, and he possessed the gift of terraces and close translation from Latin
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to English. Six production achievement. In the year before he entered the university,
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Brown tried his hand at writing English essays and tales of fiction. One
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of the latter, memnon or human wisdom, shows the boy's power of kane
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philosophical analysis, and his even kener satire. A letter recording the making of
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a translation of Flowers and reporting strenuous scholastic activities burst witness to his excellence of
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style. Two months after Browell entered to the university, he instigated the establishment
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of a debating society, which he became the first president. The following year,
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age fifteen, he was elected to the famous st Speculative Society, which
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numbered among its members the most distinguished students of the university. By not satisfied
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with the weekly meetings of this organization, he founded for practically the same group
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of young men, the Academy of Physics, before which he presented papers on
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law reform. As sixteen seventeen, Brown submitted to the Berlin Academy of Sciences
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an essay on the deflection of objectile from a vertical plane, embodying the results
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that he and his brothers had obtained in trying out this principle experimentally. Brown
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devoted some time to the investigation of poorisms and to experiments on light and colors.
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He submitted a paper to the Royal Society containing some additions to the Newtonian
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doctrine. This was accepted and printed in the Society's Transactions. Curiously enough,
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this paper contained the suggestion of the principles from which photography was later to be
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developed, but this part of the discussion was omitted from the work as printed
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fifty years later. Photography was developed independently by others investigators. Seven evidence as
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a precocity. Brown's mother recorded of her son that from a tender age he
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excelled all his contemporaries nothing to him was a laborer. No task was prescribed
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that was not performed long before the time expected. His grandmother used to compare
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human to the admirable Croton from his excelling in everything he undertook. From mere
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infancy, he showed a marked attention to everything he saw, and this before
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he could speak, afterward to everything he heard, and he had a memory
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the most rutentive. He spoke distinctly several words when he was eight months and
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two weeks old, and this attitude to learn cook continued progressive. His earliest
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recorded utterance was due to a nasty tumble of downstairs. Have you hurt your
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head? Inquired the anxious parent, Sure, ma'am, it was cracked before,
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was a reply, being the invariable phase of ex excuse of a maid's
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servant, from whose hands no breakable article was safe. See also two three,
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five and six aio Q. Oneundred and sixty with at coach det Aer
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point seventy five three. Development from seventeen to twenty six. Browham made seventeen,
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Having exhausted the usual university curriculum, was driven to choose a profession.
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He elected to study for the bar, but did not neglect his scientific studies.
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He continued to attend lectures in mathematics and experimental sciences during the next three
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years. In the midst of varied activities, two papers and optics were produced,
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and one on Pourisms walking tours in the Highlands and a winter in Denmark
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and Sweden in the company of a number of friends, including Lord Stewart de
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Brothsey broke through uten of study, browm aged twenty two, was admitted an
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advocate of the Scott's Bar On his return from the continental trip. The same
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year, his brother Peter was killed in a duel, and as a consequence,
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Henry Brown's mind became temporarily unhinged. In the following years, the study
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and practice of law became distasteful to him, and he devoted more and more
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time to science and literature. He was a constant attender at the debates of
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the Speculatis Society and planned the foundations of the Edinburgh Review in collaboration with Smith
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and Jeffrey. The Review, the first number, which appeared when Brown was
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twenty four, was somewhat unexpectedly an immediate success. For the first four numbers,
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Bouham wrote twenty four articles on literature, science and politics, although not
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perhaps of the quality of the most eminent essayists, still those early productions maintained
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a good general level of excellence of Browm At this time a critic wrote as
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a general utility man, prepared to take any subject in a moment's notice,
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equally ready to smash a professor or gibbet a poet. He was out rival
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for either vigor or variety. At the age of twenty five, Brown was
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made a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his scientific work. In
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the meantime, his law cases had not progressed any too favorably, and so
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in order to gain a reputation, he went on circuit following Judge Lord s
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Grove. By this proved uncongenial, and he abandoned the practice after one trial.
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Fired. With the prospect of a political career, Browham now went south
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and entered Lincoln's Inn. After tour of Holland and Italy, he finally settled
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in London, where his writings in the Edinburgh Review had already made him at
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twenty six a man of some mark ai q undrant seventy relived cocentet a point
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Semn five Philip her Malanchen fourteen ninety seven to fifteen sixty German reformer, famous
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as the collaborator of Luther aii q on undred and sixty aiq undred eighty one.
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Family standing. Melanson's father was a skillful armorer who early won the favor
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of his electo by his clever workmanship. His fame spread beyond the limits of
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the ectorate, and he was constantly demand among foreign princes. The Emperor Maximilian,
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delighted with his work, presented him with a coat of arms and retained
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him in his employee. Philip's maternal grandfather was a fine, intelligent man of
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superior education. The maternal grandmother, a sister of the celebrated pre Reformation scholar
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Ruchelen, was concerned for a grandchildren's education and took charge to their training after
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the death of their father and grandfather. Philip's mother, virtuous and well bred,
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was beloved of her children. Two Development twenty seventeen one interests. Melanon
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was always fond of scholarly pursuits. His studies covered a wide range, for
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he sought to know everything and to be a master in every science. He
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often gathered together a few schoolfellows for the purpose of discussing what had been read
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and learned. His enthusiasm for classical literature was great. Even before he was
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seventeen, he had come to occupy a conspicuous place among the humanists who were
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rising in opposition to the Monkish pedantry of the day two education, young Philip
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was sent to the town school, and there well drilled in the rudiments of
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knowledge, he made rapid progress. Lad who was instructed at home by an
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excellent teacher, John Unto, recommended by Rutelyn, who, correcting every mistake
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with the rod, grouted him thoroughly in grammar and syntax, and illculcated modesty,
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honesty and love of truth. A edge of ten, Philip entered the
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excellent Latin school of Frauzheim, where he came under similar, a superior land
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scholar with a rare knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. Here he was one of
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the favorite few admitted to the master's instruction in Greek. His thirteenth year,
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Alanson was meticulated under the philosophical faculty in the University of Heidelberg. Here he
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pursued his studies largely by himself reading history, drama and the ancient classics,
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and studying dialectics and the philosophy Aristotle, while attending lectures on mathematics and astronomy.
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He passed his final examinations when he was not yet fifteen. At the
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end of another year, he fulfilled the requirements for the MA degree, but
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denied his honor because of his youth. He transferred his meticulation to Tubigin.
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In addition to the studies pursued at Heidelberg, he now took up Hebrew medicine
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and theology, receiving the MA degree at the age of sixteen three. School
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stadium progress. Balanchton had quick perception, acute penetration, a retentive memory,
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an artent thirst for knowledge, and the ability to expressive thoughts of accuracy and
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precision. In school and out, he was incessantly asking questions. He was
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not of poor proficiency in grammar, and was irresistible in dispute. At for
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time, he surpassed all his schoolfellows, among whom were a number who latter
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won distinction. Philip's progress so pleased his great uncle Ruchelen that the latter gave
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his nephew a copy of his own Gregor Latin lexicon as a reward for the
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composition of certain Latin verses. The boy and his schoolfellows further delighted the eminent
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scholar by rendering one of his school comedies with skill and elegance. At Heidelberg,
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the Lanston acquired so high a reputation for proficiency in Greek, and on
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one occasion, when the professor was forced to leave his class because of sudden
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illness, the instruction was left in Philip's hands. Malanchean was one of a
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comparatively small portion of the student body who fulfilled the BA requirements. He received
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the animee at Tubingen, the first among eleveny candidates, four friends and associates.
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The most important influence exerted on the youthful mind of Philip was his intimacy
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with Richland, his great uncle. At Heidelberg, the boy lived in the
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home of doctor Spangel, a man of striking personality who assisted and encourages protege
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Elandswe numbered among his university friends the noted scholar Jacob Wimpfeling, who embodied the
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rising spirit of humanistic culture, the poet Soluble, and a number of other
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young men who were destined to play an important part of the events of latter
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years. Among these were Sturm, Bilakhan, and Bretts. Philip held a
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high place in the estimation of his associates. Five Reading. In his early
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teens, Melancion read the poets, History and the drama with boyish avidity.
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He was interested in Cicero and Demosthenes, but he preferred modern works like those
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of Politian. He was much impressed by the sermons of Guillio and Tibigin.
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He read Okham, Gerson and John Wessell assiduously, and he studied Gallons so
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carefully that he could repeat most of his works from memory. At this time
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his great uncle Richland gave him a Latin Bible, which he read carefully day
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and night, always carrying it with him. Six Production achievement. Two Latin
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poems, written at the age of thirteen have been preserved. They are representative
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of a large number of productions, several which were published at this time in
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various occasional collections before he was sixteen. Malenchi and Tutor two noble youths,
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and in his seventeenth year he received a license as private ussent at Tuberjin to
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lecture on the ancient classics. He also, when struted a select group of
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students in the Greek Li language. The same year he became corrector to the
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printer Thomas Anshelm, a position that could at that time be held only by
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a learned man. He edited and almost completely rewrote the Universal History by John
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Nuclair, and he began a translation of Plutarch and of Arratus. It is
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probable that he completed the outline of his grammar was still at college. Seven
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evidences of precocity C two three, six, airq one and sixty relative coached
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a point relative kosh of at aero point seventy five three development from seventeen to
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twenty six. Be Lancelot remained at Turbunjeria until he was twenty one. The
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learning and talance of the youth, who was already, without questioning, the
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best humanistic scholar in Europe, attracted the attention of the great Erasmus, who
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praised his sa chastity in argument, purity and style. Comprehension of learned subjects
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had arived reading delicacy in the almost royal elegance of mind. Before leaving to
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Agin, he had progressed from the elder humanistic school to that of the young
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reformers. In fifteen eighteen Frederick, the wise of the young scholar aged twenty
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one, who had already refused a call at Ingolstadt, the chair of Greek
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in i Zou University of Wittenberg. This offer was made on the recommendation of
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Ruklim, who said that the youth was surpassed by only one scholar. Erasmus
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Laneson was glad to accept the call and found in Wittenberg a very congenial atmosphere.
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The first disappointment of his colleagues, who saw only that he was very
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young, small, diffident, hesident and of a frail body, was quickly
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replaced by admiration and delight when they heard its first public oration, an achievement
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which marked the beginning of a new era in culture and religion. Almost immedily,
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students began to flock to Wittenberg, drawn by the reputation of the young
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scholar. Lancern and Luther were at once at tretted to each other, each
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finding the complement of his own nature in the other and esteeming his friend better
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than himself. The Leipzig disputation, which occurred when Melanciana was twenty one,
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was at twenty point of the young man's life, for it marked the real
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beginning of his active participation in the work of the Reformation. When the diet
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of worms condemned Luther, Olanthian alone undertook to defend him, writing at twenty
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four The Apology. In twenty third to twenty fourth years he wrote his most
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important theological work, Theological Commonplaces, an everk making contribution to the history of
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theology. For fifty years, it held first place as a theological text book
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in the universities. Lanthian was married at twenty three ai i q one undred
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eighty relived Kushnert at a point seventy five. Louis Alfred Charles de Mousset eighteen
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ten to eighteen fifty seven a celebrated French poet ai i Q one hundred sixty
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a i i q one hundred seventy one family standing. The family of Mouset
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were for generations lovers of literature, and every member had literary talent. The
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poet's grand uncle, the Marquis Mussat, gained a brilliant success in seventeen seventy
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eight with a novel in Letters. Alfred's father combined literature with war and official
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duties. His writings included historical works, travels, books of erudition, novels,
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and humorous verse. This literary soldier his characterized as jovial and quick of
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retort, but the kindest of men, and an indulgent father. The maternal
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grandmother, although possessing an infant fund of good sense, was a passionate and
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eloquent follower of John Jacks. To his mother, Alfred owed a wholesome and
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happy childhood. Two development tow age seventeen one interests. In his eighth and
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ninth years, Alfred took keen pleasure in reading and re reading fantastic tales and
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stories of chivalry, acting them out with his brother's plays. He wished to
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excel in all he did, and at sixteen he would rather not write at
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all if he could not be a Shakespeare or a Schiller. Two Education.
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At the age of three, Alfred began lessons in reading and writing, subjects
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which he pursued with great ardor in order to gain sufficient skill to carry on
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a correspondence with a beloved cousin. At six he attended school for a short
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time, and then, with his brother, was instructed by a tutor.
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When Alfrod sixteen, he received his baccalaurete degree, and was then ready to
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enter upon the law studies for which his family had destined him. Three schools
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standing in progress. At the College of Henry the Fourth, he was the
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youngest and broddis in his class and a favorite of the master. So great
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were his desire to do well and his fear of not succeeding that he was
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always unhappy and agitated at school. While studying logic and philosophy, he would
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reason independently, Often dissatisfied with the professor's ideas, he would work at a
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subject's penetrating to the bottom are coming up with a different conclusion from the one
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generally accepted. At sixteen, he won second prize in philosop with a Latin
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dissertation on the Origin of our Feelings four friends and associates at school. Morsette's
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record, brilliant for one so young, aroused the jealousy of the other pupils,
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who combined against him and tormented him. Paul Foucher, however, was
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a college friend. Five reading at the age of seven, Alfred and his
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brother devoured all of the Persian and Arabian stories they would find, beginning with
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the Legend of the Four Sons of Amon. They went on through the whole
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series of Chivarek tales, including Roland, Feru Armadis, Pierre de Provence,
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and Don Quixote. No specific record has been found of latter reading six production
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achievement. According to his brother, Alfred wrote his first poem in his fifteenth
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year C. Two three seven Evidences of precocity. His brother says that Alfred
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de Mousette early gave signs of a rare precocity of intellect. He had oratorical
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impulses and picturesque expression in depicting childish woes and pleasures. His reactions at the
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age of three were those of an older child. He was impatient to experience
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to the utmost every moment of time, and when one day his mother did
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not dress him quickly enough to meet a tempestuous desire, he stamped his foot
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and cried, hurry, mamma, all my new shoes will be old.
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Before he was four, he had his first love affair, not less profound
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because it was childish. At the age of eight, he astonished a military
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officer by a controversy with a colonel's sign, in which he solved a problem
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in statics. The cannon ball test of the stafford been at scale. The
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officer prophesied then that the little prodigy would one day become a great mathematician.
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A i q. One and sixty Billieve coached at appoint seventy five three development
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from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen, Mosap began the study of law,
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then changed to medicine, but loathing the dissection of cadivers, he gave
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the sup thereafter, and upon the encouragement of his drawing teacher, he spent
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much time at the Lieu of in drawing and painting. He read much Sex
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Speer gud the Schillu, Byron Descartes, Spinoza, Cabanis, Main de Breen,
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and other writers. Before he was eighteen, he was adopted sport and
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lectured by Victor Hugo, Alfred Vigny, Saint beauve Merrimi, Charles Naudier,
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and the Jeschiams brothers. At this period must have began a drama in honor
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of Victor Hugo, a free translation of Tiquincy's confessions, and he wrote poems,
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among them the famous Ballads to the Moon. The next year he printed
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his Tales of Spain and Italy, which was widely criticized. His play notte
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Vineteline. Having failed on the stage, he began to write dramatic pieces to
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be read in an arm chair, for so he was free from conventions and
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the restrictions of time and space. A twenty two published Andrea del Soto Caprices
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di Marianne, now considered a classic, and Bullah very popular with college students.
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Between his twenty third and twenty fiftye he lived through the stormy love affair
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with George sand and at the end his happiness he retrievedly wrecked. He sought
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consolation into bauchery. The writings which grew out of this experience, the Four
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Nuts and the Letterer of Lamartine, gave their author enduring fame AIQ one dred
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and seventy relived koshender pointed two. William Pitt seventeen fifty nine to eighteen New
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six, a famous English Whig statesman and orator ai Q one hundred and sixty
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a IQ one hundred eighty one. Family standing. Pitt's father was William Pitt,
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first Earl of Chatham, a famous statesman, minister, and orator,
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Page four hundred and eighty two f f. For more than a century,
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the Pitts had been mayors, physicians, parsons, or government officials. The
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mother, a countess in her own right, was a sister of two distinguished
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statesmen. Two Development, twenty seventeen. One interests. So great was his
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admiration for his father that the younger pet wished to resemble him in all things.
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He pursued learning so vigorously, both at home and at the university,
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that it became his father's care to caution him against scholarly excess. In his
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teens, Philosophy and history were the subjects to which he was most ardently devoted.
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Writing was a favorite pastime and courage for health's sake. Two Education the
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age of seven or earlier, William Pitt, with his brothers and sisters,
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was instructed by a tutor when the father's health would permit. He never allowed
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a day to pass without giving instruction of some sort to his children, and
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the reading with them of a chapter from the Bible was a daily rite.
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William Pitt was scored at home beyond the usual age because of his delicate health.
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He studied the elements of mathematics and the classics both Greek and Latin,
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and his tutor once observed that he grasps the meaning of an author so readily
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that he never seemed to learn, but only to recollect. At fourteen and
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a half Pitt was entered at Cambridge, where by his father's request, he
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was given, in addition to the usual programme, two hours of special instruction
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daily by his tutors. After an illness which took him home, Pitt returned
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to Cambridge aged fifteen, and never two years he led in astee life,
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never missed hall or chapel or lecturer except for illness, and going into no
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society three school stadium progress. His university tutor wrote that although William was little
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more than fourteen when he went to reside at the university, he had labored
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under the disadvantage of frequent ill health. The knowledge which he then possessed was
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very considerable, and in particular his proficiency in the learned languages was probably greater
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than ever was acquired by any other person in such early youth. In Latin
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authors he seldom met with difficulty, and was no uncommon thing for him to
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read into English six or seven pages of Thusidides, which he had not previously
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seen without more than two or three mistakes, and sometimes without even one.
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The Master of Pembroke Hall wrote to the old Apparent regard to his son,
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then fifteen, he promises fair indeed, to be one of those extraordinary persons
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whose eminent parts, equod byas Emmett industry, continue in a progressive state through
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their lives. The same master stated that his own experience concurred with that of
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the tutors who greet their young Pitt possessed extraordinary genius. Four Friends and associates.
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Pitt's early associates were the members of his family, his tutors, and
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the friends of his parents. As sixteen, he formed of friendship with Lord
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Mahon, his brother in law, six years his senior. Five. Reading
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from an early age, William Pitt read widely. When he was ten and
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three quarters, his father sent him as specimens examples of contemporary oratory. His
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first books he read at Cambridge were A Phusidizes on Polybius six production Achievement.
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At thirteen, Pitt wrote a tragedy in five acts and blank verse entitled Laurentius,
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King of Clarinium, whose whole plot was political, with the interest turning
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In a contest about urgency, Albert Macaulay said, a tragedy bad, of
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course, but not worse than those of his friend, meaning Hailey. The
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tragedy was trice presented its five past, sustained by the five brothers and sisters.
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Letters to his father from college show at fourteen ease and ability in style,
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seven evidences of plicocity. At a very early age, Pitt exhibited the
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polished manners and manly behavior of a cultured gentleman. At seven he was writing
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letters to his father, and the same year he delivered an invitation on his
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own initiative, in the style of a man of the world. Even at
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this early age he had political aspirations. His tutor, writing a Mister William
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to his mother, observed three months ago he told me, in a very
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serious conversation that he was glad he was not the eldest son, but that
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he could serve his country in the House of Commons like his papa. A
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contemporary wrote, though a boy in news and appearance, mister Pitt's manners were
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formed and his behavior manly. He mixed in conversation with unaffected vivacity, and
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delivered his sen e dements with perfect ease, equally free from shyness and flippancy,
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and always with strict attention to poetry and decordum. Lord Chatham had encouraged
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him to talk without reserve upon every subject, which frequently afforded opportunity for conveying
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useful information and just notions of persons and things. Before he was seven,
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William Pitt was referred to by his mother as an eager mister William, and
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at seven and one third, William and his sister continually astonished their tutor by
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their ardor, which could not be diminished either by too many tasks or to
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few. The tutor wrote, when I am alone reading mister Pitt, if
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it is anything, he may attend to constantly place himself by me where he
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steady attention and sage remarks are not only entertaining, but useful, as they
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frequently throw a light upon the subject as strongly impress it on my memory.
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The first Lady Holland is quoted as saying, here is a little William Pitt,
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not eight years old, and really the cleverest child I ever saw.
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When this remarkable boy was thirteen, his mother said of him that he enjoyed
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with the highest pleasure what would be above the reach of any other creature of
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his small age. The following year he was ascribed by the poet Hailey as
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now a wonderful boy of fourteen, who eclipsed his brother three years older.
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In conversation, the older pet quotes his friends Hollis, who remarked the councilors
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William's fine recounts, and said, you see how distinct and clear his ideas
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are. During a thunder storm, the boy was reading to his father,
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and no more moved his eye out of the book than Archimede's left his geometry
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when the town was stormed. William Pitt, fourteen was as forward as most
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lads at seventeen or eighteen a i i q One hundred sixty, whilliked kosheted
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at points seventy five three development from seventeen to twenty six. At seventeen,
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Pitt received the Aimey degree without examination, and he was the son of a
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peer. Thereafter, for three years he remained at Cambridge, studying a city
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with Leeve. His favorite subject was mathematics, but he read fully on law,
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philosophy, and classics. He carefully prepared himself for public speaking by translation
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study of orations and comparison of opposing speeches on the same subject. Although he
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mixed freely with other young men, his chief interest were still scholarly rather than
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social. When Pitt was nineteen, his father died and he inherited a small
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income. With an uncle's assistance, he entered Lincoln's Inn and began the study
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of law. But from his letters written between the ages of seventeen and twenty
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one, we know that politics was the most important subject in his mind.
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He visited Parliament and astonished Fox with the acuity of his criticisms of speeches.
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At twenty one he was called to the bar and left Cambridge. He contested
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the general election of Cambridge and lost, but surely outwards received a seat by
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personal appointment. His maiden speech, annexed to porraneous effort, astonished the house.
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Burke was impressed, and Fox considered Pitt one of the first men in
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Parliament. Two years later he introduced a bill for the reform of representation,
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but it was defeated. At this time, as twenty three, he announced
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in the House he would accept no office less than a cabinet minister's and turned
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down an easy post with a salary of five thousand pounds. In the same
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year, he became Chancellor of the Executor under Sherburne and spoke strongly a favor
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of peace with the United States. He was offered the premiership, but refused
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to accept it as his party lacked strength. At twenty four Pitt spent six
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weeks in France, where he was much sought after by persons of distinction.
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During this year he became Prime Minister, and he held the office continuously for
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the next eighteen years. AIIQ Wonder Lady lef Koshet at point eight two Alexander
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Pope sixteen eighty eight to seventeen forty four an English poet ai i Q one
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hundred and sixty AIQ year one hundred and seventy one. Family standing. Pope's
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parents were a plain on its middle class couple, gifted with plenty of common
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sense and still more uncommon tact. The father was a lined merchant who had
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the witch to make a small fortune and to retire from business before he was
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too old to adapt himself to a leisured country life. The mother, who
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was past forty at the time of her marriage, was a daughter of a
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small Yorkshire landowner. Two develop a twenty seventeen. One interests. Young Pope
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was passionately fond of reading and indifferent to fresh air and exercise, as characteristic
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of him that, at twelve, seeing Dryden, he observed him very particularly
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for even then he looked upon him with veneration. Two. Education, The
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boy acquired a knowledge of his letters from an old art. Writing he acquired
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on his own account by copying from printed books, and he learned the rudiments
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of Greek and Latin. At eight from the family priest. Pope attended two
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Catholic schools, one at twi Ford and the other in London, the latter
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under a careless master, a few months under the further instruction of a priest,
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completed when he was twelve. His regular schooling thereafter, he took to
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reading for himself, and at fifteen went to London to study French and Italian,
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remaining however only a few months three schools standing in progress. At twy
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Ford, Pope wrote a lampoon on his master and was flogged forward. Thereupon,
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his indulgent father removed him from school. At the London school, he
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made little progress beyond gaining a slight familiarity with Cicero he spent much of his
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time attending the theatre, studying plays, and making verses. Four Friends and
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associates. In his youth, Pope associated chiefly of men of mature years who
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encouraged and advised him in his versification. Among these were Sir William Trumbull,
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William Walsh, Henry Cromwell, and Whatcherly, the dramatist, who was forty
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eight years Pope senior. Walsh revised his young friend to make it his aim
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always to be correct in his poetry. Five. Reading at eight, Pope
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word with rapture Ogilby's translation of Homer. He liked extremely Santy's Ovid and part
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of Studius. After leaving school, he read with great eagerness and enthusiasm a
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great number of English, French, Italian, Latin and Greek poets. Following
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his own fancy, However, rather than any fixed design six production achievement,
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Pope began writing verses of his own invention farther back than he could remember.
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At twelve, he wrote a play consisting of a number of speeches from the
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Iliad tagged together with verses of his own, and this was acted by his
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schoolfellows. He was twelve when he wrote the Ode to Solitude and a u
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letter. He began at a poem on Alcandor, Prince of Rhodes, writing
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four thousand lines and surviving examples of which show considerable dexterity in the handling of
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heroic meter. It was about this time also that he wrote his translation of
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the first book of Statius, the Dias of Ovid's Epistol from Sapho to Phaeon
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of more than a quarter of the Metamorphosis, and of Scus di Senectute.
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In sixteenth year, the young poet began his pastor Reals, which even in
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later years he considered the most correct and musical of all his works. Seven
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Evidences of Glucosidy from his Emfansy. Pope was considered a prodigy because the sweetness
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of his useful voice. The family called him the little Nightingale. In early
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youth he worked with such intensity as so completely neglected all exercise, that his
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health was shadowed by the time of seventeen and a hereditary tennessee to spinal trouble
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and nervous headaches developed c. Two six aiq one ndred and sixty relived koshetet
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upoon at two three development from seventeen to twenty six. The Pastorals soon appeared
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in print and were much praised by contemporaries. When Pope was twenty three,
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his Essay on Criticism, printed least two years earlier, was published, but
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it did not sell well that it was called by Addison a masterpiece of its
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kind, and doctor Johnson said Pope never surpassed this early work. When the
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poet was twenty four, his Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue was published in Lintots
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miscellani As. Were also several poems, including the first draft of The Rape
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of the Lock. Two cantos dashed off in a fortnight Windsor Forest, begun
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eight years earlier, appeared when its author was twenty five and already the most
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fashionable poet of his day. Before he was twenty six, Pope was a
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notable, recognized at the clubs and coffee houses as one of the reigning wits,
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and already uddently admired by such a critic as Swift Aiq One hundred seventy,
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with ada kosher debt upon it too. Torcueto Tasso fifteen forty four fifteen
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ninety five, a celebrated Italian poet, Aiq one hundred and sixty Aiq one
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hundred fifty one. Family standing for four centuries. Tasso's paternal ancestors had been
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people of wealth and influence, though not wealthy himself. The father, a
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noted poet, was pre eminedly a courtier. The mother was a beauty or
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singularly sweet, and some is of disposition, with intelligence of prudence even greater
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than a virtue and charm. Two development to age seventeen. One interests.
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Although in his youngest years Torquetto enjoyed playing practical jokes, delight in study also
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developed early, and when he was no more than seven, the child was
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so mad to get to his books that on dark mornings he was conducted to
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school before daylight by a servant bearing a lighted torch. In his early tiens
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he learned in the household of a duke the nightly and graceful arts of a
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young courtier. Two. Education reported to have begun the study of grammar.
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At three. Torquetta was instructed in that year or a little letter by an
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old priest, learned the rudiments of letters and the humanities. At the age
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of six, the boy was sent to a school in naples conducted by the
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Jesuits, which he ten of three years. At night, he began a
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period of study at home under the supervision of his father. For three years
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he shared with his cousin the instruction of a priest who was learned, skilled
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in both Latin and Greek, up to date in his method of education,
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a gentleman to the backbone, and not a bit of a pedant. At
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thirteen or fourteen, the boy lived in the household of Duke Guido Baldoux,
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who had taken a great fancy to him. As a fellow pupil and companion
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of the Duke's little son of eight, the two were instructed in music,
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letters, mathematics, and the arts of the Courier three school standing in progress.
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Tesso made such rapid progress at the Jesuit school that at seven he was
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pretty well acquainted with the Latin and Greek tongues. At twelve he had entirely
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completed his knowledge in the Latin Greek tongues, as was well acquainted with the
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rules of rhetoric and poetry, and completely versed in Aristotle's ethics. But he
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particularly studied the precepts of Mariti TiO Catanio, whom he ever afterwards reverenced as
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the second father, four friends and associates. Living for a short time with
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relatives and his early teens or before, Tasso would treated the notice of the
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collateral of the Venetian Republic and became intimate with his learned young secretary or rittiog
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Catanio in Venice. At fifteen and sixteen, it was his privilege to listen
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to the conversations of many of the great literati who were his father's friends.
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His special friend was Aldo, and Nuzzio, a boy of fourteen, who
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cradled in scholarship, had just produced to learn work on the correct spelling of
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Latin see also two two five. Reading. At fifteen or sixteen, Tasso
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read Dante to some extent. His annointed copy of Dante still exists, but
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the nurse do not extend beyond two thirds of the Inferno, and they exhibit
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no great insight or sympathy. Six production and achievement, according to some sources
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at ten. According to others, AT seven also made public orations and composed
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some pieces of poetry, to which the style is said to have retained nothing
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of periality. He addressed a touching little poem of farewell to his mother at
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the age of nine, when he left her to join his father at Rome,
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Atuavy wrote of his own accord on behalf of his father, whose means
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were small to a lady feigned for her goodness of heart. A sonnet showing
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considerable facility, written when he was fourteen, praised the town of Urbino and
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its court. At fifteen sixteen, young Tasso assisted his father in correcting proofs
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of the Amitighis. One authority believes that Torriquoeto Tasso again his own rinaldo before
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he was seventeen seven, evidence of precocity. Torquetto was said by historians to
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have done incredible things at the age of six months, to have spoken and
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pronounced words clearly, to have thought reason, expressed his wants and asked questions.
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At the age of nine, on receiving the sacrament, he underwent a
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profound religious experience which brought him indescribable peace. At that age he was so
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torn forward that he might have been taken for twelve soil so two three five
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a I I q undred and sixty were that of Koschadette point five three three
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development from seventeen to twenty six. During the years from seventeen to twenty Tasso
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attended the universities of Petdua and Bologna, but he evidently found a little relish
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in the study of law, which he followed only because of his father's wish.
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At seventeen, in the course of a brief love affair, he wrote
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a series of sonnets. Rinaldo composing ten months time, was successfully brought out
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when he was eighteen and a twenty at the invitation of Gonzaga, a patron
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of learning, he joined a literary Cotterieri, which met at the patron's house.
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During the progress of a second brief love affair, he wrote a second
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series of beautiful sonnets. Dasso spent his early twenties in the service of Cardinal
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Luigi Dares, theere Duke of the Rara. There he was much in the
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company the Duke and the princesses, and without neglecting the more serious pursuits to
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which a magnificent Lobrie cave from access, he was able to enjoy the lighter
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pleasures of court life as well. A I I I Q one tionon fifty
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five with a koshet at at point five three end of Section thirty two,