Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Statue of Watt in Westminster Abbey. PATRICK HENRY. 341. PATRICK HENRY. SECOND only to Washington in the estimation of the American people, at theura of their Revolution, stood PATRICK HENRY, usually called the orator ofVirginia. In Hanover county, in that colony, he first saw the light on the 29thof May, 1736. His father kept a gramm
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Statue of Watt in Westminster Abbey. PATRICK HENRY. 341. PATRICK HENRY. SECOND only to Washington in the estimation of the American people, at theura of their Revolution, stood PATRICK HENRY, usually called the orator ofVirginia. In Hanover county, in that colony, he first saw the light on the 29thof May, 1736. His father kept a grammar-school of the humbler order; andin this seminary did young Henry acquire the rudiments of Latin, which, witha slight tincture of mathematics, formed the extent of his regular his boyhood he is said to have shown an aversion to study, preferring greatlyto indulge in the sports of the forest, the hill, and the lake, and almost alwaysfollowing such pursuits alone. But it was also observed of him, by the moresharp-sighted, that the quickness of his perceptions, and strength of his mem-ory, made up in a great measure for the want of the power of close applica-tion ; and that no remark of any importance could be made in his presencewithout being retained in his mind, heedless as he might at the time s
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