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Author:
| Cooper, James Fenimore |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-65870-6 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $25.23 |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ma, then tollt of an admirable conceited fellow flu he any aali Varet Pr'ythee, bring him in; and let him approach singing. Wwr' TiLS. I Havb no intention of taking the reader with me through college, where I remained the usual term of four years. These four years were not idled away, as...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ma, then tollt of an admirable conceited fellow flu he any aali Varet Pr'ythee, bring him in; and let him approach singing. Wwr' TiLS. I Havb no intention of taking the reader with me through college, where I remained the usual term of four years. These four years were not idled away, as sometimes happens, but were fairly improved. I read all of the New Testament, in Greek; several of Cicero's Orations; every line of Horace, Satires and Odes; four books of the Iliad; Tully de Oratore, throughout; besides paying proper attention to geography, mathematies, and other of the usual branches. Moral philosophy, in particular, was closely attended to, senior year, an well as astronomy. We had a telescope that showed us all four of Jupiter's moons. In other respects, Nassau might be called the seat of learning. One of our class purchased a second-hand copy of Euripides, in town, and we had it in college all of six months; though it was never my good fortune to see it, as the young man who owned it was not much disposed to let profane eyes view his treasure. Nevertheless, I am certain the copy of the work was in college; and we took good care to let the Yale men hear of it more than ouce. I do not believe they ever saw even the outside of a Euripides. As for the telescope, I can testify of my own knowledge; having seen the moons of Jupiter as often as ten times, with my own eyes, aided by its magnifiers. We had a tutor who was expert among the stars, and who, it was generally believed, would have been able to see the ring of Saturn, could he have found the planet; which, as it turned out, he was unable to do. My four college years were very happy years. The vacations came often, and I went home invariably; passing a day or two with my aunt Lcgge, in going or ...