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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ... souls have sight of that immortal sea, Which brought us hither; Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore." Womwwomu But a painful illustration of the influence of early association is afforded by the history of Lord Bacon. The royal presence and favour, which he attracted as a quick and interesting child, seem to have raised ambitious hopes in his aspiring mind before his judgment could control them. The love of state, and pomp, and worldly grandeur, or the service of royalty, thus became, as he calls it, his "first love,"--his strongest passion, which all his delight in philosophical meditation and studious retirement, and all the natural impulse of his powerful genius, could not subdue. He was trained to be a courtier almost from his cradle; and hence arose all those mean and shuffling arts and evasions, which have so fearfully sullied his glory, as they corrupted his noble disposition, and eves dimmed the lustre of his eye. It is obvious that correctness and elegance of language will be most easily acquired, when those with whom we have most constantly associated in early years have possessed these accomplishments, and thus formed our ear and sharpened our tongue. The Roman orator strikingly illustrates this, by the case of Curio. He was very illiterate, and even ignorant: he thought slowly; his arrangement was bad; his memory most defective; and his action so awkward, as he rolled himself violently about, as to excite general ridicule. His education, as a neglected ward, had been of the most wretched character; s.nd yet, so great was the force of domestic association, that his language was fine, and his fluency of expression admirable.--(Cic. de Brut., sec. 59....
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