Letters on Education - 1801 Author:Elizabeth Hamilton 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: Could the biographers of illuftrious men attain a perfeft knowledge of all they had received from early education, I am fully perfuaded that it would flied a... more » luftre on the maternal character confpicuous as glorious. " Never," obferved a man of acknowledged fenfe and penetration, " never have I known a man remarkable for wif- dom and virtue, who was the fon of a foolifli mother." Nor will the aflertion appear extraordinary, when we confider how often the tempers and difpofitions, falfely attributed to nature, may be traced to impreffions received in infancy j a fact that might eafily be afcertained by obfer- vation on the chara« less