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Biography of J.S. Buckminster, S.C. Thacher and J.E. Abbot
Biography of JS Buckminster SC Thacher and JE Abbot Author:Unknown Author 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: and heart which most deeply affect the character. The early display of the talents of Buck- minster was very remarkable. All who saw him, strangers as well as... more » friends, after his earliest infancy, felt sure that he 'would he an eminent man. It seemed as if the early opening of a mind so fair was intended to prepare, and in some degree compensate his friends for its sudden and premature loss. An account of some of the peculiarities of his youth will he found in the following extract of a letter. 'From the birth of my brother, our parents intended him for the ministry, and took the greatest delight in cultivating a mind, whose early promise gave them reason to hope he was to be a blessing to the world. I do not know how soon he was able to read; but at four years old he began to study the Latin grammar, and had so great a desire 'to learn the Greek also, that my father, to please'him, taught him to read a chapter in the Greek Testament by pronouncing to him the words. As early as this he discovered that love for books and ardent thirst for knowledge, which he possessed through life. He was seldom willing, while a child, to leave his books for any amusement, and my father was so much afraid, that close application would injure his health, that he used to reward him for playing with boys of his own age, and would often go with him to persuade him, by example, to take part in their sports. I have .no recollection, that, when we were children, he ever did any thing that was wrong. He had always the same open, candid disposition, that marked his manhood; nor can I recollect any time, when I did not feel the same confidence, that whatever he did was right; the same affection and respect, which made the last years I spent .with him so happy. From the time he was five, till he wa...« less