. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . a, and be-came rector of St. Pauls parish in Hanover. The wife ofColonel John Henry was a native of Hanover County, and ofthe family of Winstons, a family noted for its intellectual giftsand its easy elocution. Patrick Henry, the second son of this worthy couple, wasborn on the 29th of May, 1736, at the family seat called Stud-ley, in Hanover county, Virginia. His parents, says , though not rich, were in easy circumstances; and, inpoint of personal character, were among the most respectableinhabitants of the Colon
. Heroes and statesmen of America, a popular book of American biography . a, and be-came rector of St. Pauls parish in Hanover. The wife ofColonel John Henry was a native of Hanover County, and ofthe family of Winstons, a family noted for its intellectual giftsand its easy elocution. Patrick Henry, the second son of this worthy couple, wasborn on the 29th of May, 1736, at the family seat called Stud-ley, in Hanover county, Virginia. His parents, says , though not rich, were in easy circumstances; and, inpoint of personal character, were among the most respectableinhabitants of the Colony. As soon as he was old enough, Patrick was sent to a schoolin the neighborhood, where he learned to read and write, andmastered a little of arithmetic. At the age of ten he wastaken home by his father, who had opened a grammar schoolin his own house. Here he was taught a little Latin and alittle Greek, and made some progress in mathematics. Studyof all kinds was distasteful to him, and he passed the most ofhis time in idleness. He avoided the school whenever he (234). PATRICK HENRY. PATRICK HENRY. 235 could; and as his father rarely compelled his attendance, heseldom made his appearance in the school-room. He was pas-sionately devoted to hunting and fishing, and would spenddays, and even weeks, tramping over the fields gun in hand, orsitting beside his fishing rod. It mattered little to him whetherhe was successfijl in his sport or not; the principal charmswhich these expeditions had for him, were the opportunitiesthey afforded him for solitude and communion with was cheerful and bright in his disposition, but never caredto mingle in the noisy gayety of children of his own age, butsat quiet and demure, taking no part in the conversation, giv-ing no responsive smile to the circulating jest, but lost, to allappearance, in silence and abstraction. This abstraction, how-ever, was only apparent; for on the dispersion of a company,when interrogated by his parents as to wh
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